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starrysnowdrop · 2 years ago

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Hugging them tightly, telling them how worried you were. (Hali/Aymeric)

((This one took me longer to write. As I began to write it, I started second guessing myself because I thought it got way too self indulgent and I was planning to completely re-write it, but with encouragement from my friends, I just went with my first idea and I finished it just now! I hope it’s not too cringe. Thank you so much @raynshyu for the prompt!!))

Hold Me Closer

Hali x Aymeric

During 3.1, shortly after the attempted assassination of Aymeric de Borel; Hali runs to see Aymeric in the infirmary and she is emotionally overwhelmed at seeing him alive and recovering well.

2,054 Words

Lots of sexual tension ahead! Plus have a “There was only one bed” Trope!

It was three bells past midnight as Hali dashed as quickly she could towards the doors of the Temple Knights’ infirmary. Her lungs were burning, her legs were aching, and the cold air and snow continually pummeled her face, yet she knew she had to get there. She had to be by his side. What kept her going were the words of Captain Whitecape echoing in her ears through her linkpearl:

Please come as swiftly as you can. He will make a full recovery in time, but he keeps calling out for you, Mistress Aloke.

As soon as she came upon the infirmary, she threw open the doors and saw the welcoming visage of Captain Whitecape, who smiled gently, then nodded to her knowingly and pointed to his left. “Room at the end of the hallway.”

Hali nodded back to the Hyuran man and she flew down the hallway, as fast as her tiny legs could carry her.

When she reached the room at the end of the hallway, she looked past the threshold and saw the figure of Aymeric de Borel laying in the bed, with the bedsheets covering much of his torso, and his eyes were closed. He looked as if he was just sleeping peacefully, as if he hadn’t just almost been assassinated by one of his own people and narrowly escaping death once more.

Emotion overtook Hali the moment she laid eyes on him, and tears rolled down her cheeks.

“Oh gods, Aymeric!” She cried out as she threw down her adventuring bag and star globe, pushed the nearby chair closer to the bed, and climbed on top of it so she could see him better. As soon as she sat down, the lalafell tried to wipe the tears away, but more tears streamed down her face as Aymeric turned towards her and he opened his ice blue eyes and smiled weakly.

“H-Hali?” Aymeric asked as he reached out his hand to her, to which Hali swiftly grasped it and she sobbed into their intertwined hands.

“Yes, I’m here. I’m here, Aymeric…”

Hali wiped her tears on the sleeve of her astrologian’s robes and smiled brightly. Her heart was still pounding out of her chest as she tried catching her breath, but at last she could breathe a sigh of relief.

“You’re alive! I was so afraid that–“

“Hali… Please come closer…”

“Huh?”

Aymeric’s interruption caught her off guard, and she wasn’t even sure if she had heard him correctly. Did he really just ask her that?

“Come closer, please…” Aymeric let go of Hali’s hand momentarily to sit more upright in the bed and soon beckoned her to come up next to him.

Hali’s eyes widened in disbelief, but she couldn’t refuse the man either, so she got up from the chair and climbed onto the edge of the bed, and before she could sit back down, Aymeric wrapped his arms gently around her form.

Hali gasped and her breath caught in her throat, but she never felt happier as she moved closer to Aymeric and wrapped her arms around his neck in turn, the two embracing each other for the first time.

A few moments later, Hali thought that he would lower his arms and she would move back to her seat, but he didn’t release her. Instead, he squeezed her as gently as he could, and Hali almost burst out into tears again, until she heard him speak softly to her, “I don’t want to see you cry, especially over me. I just want to see your beautiful smile.”

Hali shook her head as she looked up at Aymeric with a small giggle.

“It’d be easier to smile if you didn’t keep being sent to the infirmary and scaring me half to death.”

Aymeric chuckled. “Forgive me for getting stabbed then.”

“You know what I meant!”

Aymeric then relaxed his arms and he laid back down onto the pillows, and Hali sat on the edge of the bed, not able to stop smiling.

“Thank you, Hali.”

“For what? I haven’t done anything.”

“You are much too humble, my friend. What I meant was, thank you, for staying by my side, for your endless generosity and kindness, for just being you.”

Hali could feel the heat rising to her cheeks as she replied, “You’re very welcome.”

Before she could fully process what just happened, and before she blushed even more than she already was, the lalafell turned away from the elezen so that she could climb back over to the chair.

“Well, then, I should let you get more rest.”

Aymeric frowned at Hali. “You’re leaving so soon?”

Hali turned back around and she waved her hands. “Oh no, I’m not leaving leaving, I’m staying right here in the chair, as I’m sure that you don’t want me laying next to you while you are trying to sleep.”

The elezen narrowed his eyes at her and he practically purred, his voice deep and enticing. “I am not complaining.”

Hali’s jaw fell to the floor, and a feeling arose from the depths of her loins. She quickly tried not to focus on what was going on inside of her own body but she couldn’t form any words.

“Oh… uhhhh…”

“Hali, I can move over and you can sleep right here.” Aymeric scooted over to the opposite side of the bed, leaving room for Hali to lie down next to him, and he patted the empty spot in the bed.

Hali stumbled over her words as much as her hands were shaking and her heart was beating a malm a minute. How was this actually happening?! Was the man of her dreams actually inviting her into bed with him?!

“Uhhhh… next to you?! Well…a-are you sure?”

“I don’t mind in the slightest. You need your rest as well, as it is the dead of night and you can’t possibly be comfortable sleeping in a chair. Besides, there’s plenty of room for the both of us.”

“Uhhhhhh….”

Aymeric’s smile was as inviting as his voice, and he was making it increasingly difficult for her to resist him.

“My friend, you look exhausted. I worry you are tiring yourself overmuch, and you need a proper night’s rest, and sleeping upright in a chair isn’t it.”

To Hali, it seemed as if Aymeric either wasn’t aware of how inappropriate it would seem to any Ishgardian if an outsider was sleeping in the same bed as the lord commander of the temple knights, or that in the moment, he didn’t care. Either way, Hali might have been shaking like a leaf in the wind, but she was no fool. If she didn’t take this opportunity to be closer to Aymeric than she had ever thought possible for her, then gods be damned she would take it.

“Oh, uhhhhh, a-alright then.”

And with that, Hali took off her shoes and as much of the jewelry hanging from her robes as possible, and climbed into bed next to Aymeric, who had already made plenty of room for her. As soon as she was laying down, he covered her with the bedsheets and made sure his arm wasn’t touching her.

“Are you comfortable?” Aymeric asked as Hali flipped over onto her side so that she could see him.

The pink haired lalafellin woman sighed. “Aymeric, you are the patient here. I should be asking you that question, remember?”

The elezen chuckled. “Ahhh, yes, quite right.”

Hali watched as Aymeric closed his eyes and she could’ve sworn that he had a smile on his face. Though she had nervous jitters at first, after a few seconds, her body settled down and fell into an overwhelming calm, a great sense of comfort and ease took over. She couldn’t be any happier than in that moment.

Her heart then skipped a beat when Aymeric’s familiar voice reached her ears, “Good night, Hali.”

Hali curled up into the pillow and smiled as sleep started to take over. “Good night, Aymeric.”

~**~

As daylight broke through the curtains adorning the infirmary room window, Hali stirred awake, surrounded by warmth. She felt the lightweight bedsheets covering most of her body, but there was another warmth that she couldn’t quite place. It was an unfamiliar feeling. Not since she was but a very young child that she felt like she was held in someone’s arms when she awoke.

But as soon as she was able to open her eyes, she realized that she was in fact, being held. When her sight came into sharper focus, Hali just froze in place, excitement and fear rose from the pit of her stomach as the reality of the situation became apparent. The unfamiliar warmth was in fact Aymeric’s flesh. In the middle of the night, she must’ve slid over to him and began to cuddle up against him.

But that wasn’t all that her unconscious self did, oh no. She not only had curled up against him, but her face was nuzzled into his chest, and her left leg was on top of his abdomen, and her other leg was right up against his side. Then as she turned to look behind her, she saw Aymeric’s arm around her, holding her to him, with his hand resting on her hip.

Hali’s heart started beating out of her chest and electricity shot through her body as all around her, she felt his skin on hers. He felt soft, supple, yet she could also feel his muscles underneath, with a distinct firmness that she was wholly unfamiliar.

She had never felt a grown man’s muscular body before, and it was conjuring a growing fire from within. An overwhelming sensation of wanting to reach out and touch more… she wanted to feel more of him.

Suddenly her higher brain functioning kicked in, and it shook her from her baser urges with the horror that she was nearly on top of a man who was not her lover, as much as she may wish that were true.

“Oh, OHHHH!” Hali squealed out loud as she sat upright in the bed.

Her voice stirred her bed companion, and without even a care in the world, Aymeric looked up at Hali and smiled warmly.

“Good morning, my dear Hali.”

Aymeric had moved his arm from around Hali so she was able to scoot herself to the edge of the bed, making space between them as she shakily replied, “Uhhhh yeah, g-good morning to you too, Aymeric!”

Aymeric rubbed his eyes momentarily before he tilted his head with concern in his eyes. “Are you alright?”

Hali plastered a huge grin on her face as she nervously giggled and her cheeks turned a deep red. “Who, me? Ha! Whatever do you mean?”

“Well, you are looking quite flushed,” Aymeric answered with a hint of a smirk.

The lalafell rubbed her hands together before she was flailing her arms around, her embarrassment rising with every second that passed. “But I was on top of you! I’m SO sorry! Oh gods… why am I such a chaotic mess of a sleeper?!”

Hali then clamped her hands to her face and hid her reddened face from the elezen, trying to block out all of the conflicting emotions that were flooding out of her. She continued to hide her face even after she heard him softly laugh.

“There’s nothing to be embarrassed about. You are very warm and soft. Why, I haven’t slept that well in years!”

With those words, Hali looked up from her hands and jumped up from the bed entirely, screeching as she jumped down to the floor.

“Ahhhh stop teasing me!”

Aymeric’s shook his head. “‘Twas not a jest! I meant what I said.”

Hali shook her head fiercely and she hopped up and down, her face was now as red as a tomato and she was sweating profusely.

“I… I’m going to fix us some tea! Hmph!”

And with that, Hali stomped out of the room, with disheveled robes and hair but no shoes, huffing all the while. She shook her head once more when she heard a deep belly laugh from Aymeric as she left his sight. How in the seven hells was she supposed to explain any of this to her friends? She would never live this one down, that was certain.

#ffxiv fanfiction #my writing #aymeric de borel #ser aymeric #aymeric x wol #wol x aymeric #hali aloke #oc: drops of jupiter #hali x aymeric #ship: hold me closer #I’m giggling incessantly over this #I’m such a mess #I genuinely love this and anyone who doesn’t can kick rocks

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