#idk where I'm going with this and I'm weepy again so just tell your loved ones how you feel

[xoxoemynn]

kind of hitting me tonight how if I could live one day over and over again, it wouldn't be a Big Moment or Major Life Milestone, but a simple day with friends. where it didn't matter where we were or what we were doing, but just that we were together and being.

like you get these flashes of a memory and you can feel the warmth and comfort and security and fun. and at the time it's all that matters, just this little bubble of joy and shared experiences.

but they can vanish so quickly and suddenly you find yourself desperate to hold onto the sound of a friend's laugh, and it's those simple moments that feel so precious and you wish you could live in them forever.

[legitalicat]

Appalachian!Sihtric plans a surprise for your wedding.

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CW: Language, orange cat energy,

Pairings: Sihtric x you

Word Count: Idk guys probably 800ish words if that many I'm writing these on here and not in Word.

Of all the things Sihtric would do for you, which included murder, he never anticipated he would be doing this.

You were at your parents. Your wedding? Tomorrow. You were dead set on the whole 24 hours apart thing, which truthfully made him ache for you like he was an addict, but it gave him the opportunity for this.

Everything was prepared. It wasn't a bad show of work for only four months of planning. He had the local florist and baker both create things to your tastes, according to your Pinterest anyways, as a way to take things off your plate. Your wedding was gonna be here, at your home at your insistence, saying you wanted the money for your marriage over your wedding.

Which he then may have turned around to use to plan a honeymoon. A two week road trip to hit several amusement parks, including Carowinds, Busch Gardens, and King's Dominion. You would stay at small hotels in the area, because he already knew you'd rather have more money available in the parks to "make memories" which did usually include making your way around the food courts.

So why he felt the need to try to surprise you further, he couldn't really say. He just couldn't get the idea out of his head for the last week. When he got off work on that Thursday, knowing you were going straight to your parents' after you got off, he bit the bullet.

That's how he had managed to spend over 300$ on the basics alone. And how he ended up with a three month old, orange tabby kitten who he could not capture the attention of.

Sihtric had finally managed to attach the little ring pouch to the collar of the kitten, who he named Wolfie after your favorite Barbie movie franchise cat. But Wolfie would not pay attention to anything.

Sihtric tried. He tried a string, he tried treats, he tried toys including a lazer pointer. He was slowly losing his mind over this cat who kept trying to eat his fingers and knocked his pop bottle over no less than three times. Oh, and the way this cat would go running through the house so fast he was only an orange blur, but would jump on every furniture surface known to man to make sure Sihtric could hear exactly where he was at.

Sihtric would swear to the gods that that cat looked at him, physically shrugged as if to say "tough shit", and ran through the house again.

"For the love of fuck, just walk to me," he all but begged Wolfie.

He groaned and walked to the kitchen before he grabbed his phone. He wanted to call you, to hear you, to tell you how he loved you. But Uhtred, Osferth, and Finan would be over soon and he couldn't afford to get all weepy over your not being in arm's reach.

He sent you a quick text, just letting you know how much he loved and missed you. You responded almost immediately, telling him the same. You spoke of your excitement for this to be the last night you would spend not being his wife. There was a determination in him, now, to make this perfect. So, he returned the sentiment and pulled up a picture of you on his phone and stalked over to find Wolfie.

He found him in the laundry room, trying to jump into the dryer. He swore under his breath about it being a stupid little thing with a death wish before he picked it up.

Sihtric held Wolfie carefully to his chest, the fuzz ball wriggling. Until Sihtric pulled up a picture of you and showed the kitten.

"Listen, you little shit, don't do it for me. Do it for her. Tomorrow you'll meet her and she'll love you instantly and even your cat brain will understand what it means to be loved by her," Sihtric practically pleaded with him.

Wolfie tried to paw at the phone, meowing. Sihtric raised an eyebrow before switching to another picture. Wolfie kept trying to touch the phone. And so he switched it to a video of you, talking like a person doing a news forecast, the subject being the very beautiful flowers on the trees around you. And Wolfie could not focus on anything but you. That's when he realized that the cat and him had something in common already, loving you.

The rest of the night, if Sihtric wanted to get Wolfie's attention, he just played a video of you or brought out a picture. He knew that tomorrow, he would be able to have Osferth put the kitten down while you were saying your vows, and Wolfie would come to you both. Wolfie would be carrying both the rings you would exchange and the blessing of your union from Freyja.

And that was exactly what he wanted.

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