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[cowboypossume]

The Spinning Rhythm of Rain

Pairing: romantic Sophie x Linh

Trigger Warnings: lighting, thunder, kissing, side character having a small ptsd flashback (it’s not too bad, just implied and it doesn’t get too serious, but please read at your own risk 💛), mention of food, and let me know if i missed anything!

Summary: Sophie and Linh are walking in the rain after a day spent together

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Word Count: 1186

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Dedication: this is my submission for the @solinh-week’s day three prompt: fluff !!!

now onto the fic :D !!

There was a specific feeling pushing itself through the light wind slightly messing up Sophie’s high ponytail. It couldn’t be attached to anything scientific, but without looking at the darkened clouds from the leaves of trees fresh with the color of spring, they knew it was going to start raining soon.

Rain was rare in the lost cities, so it was something she’d nearly forgotten but still missed; the feeling the sky brought the entire time and in the moments before the rain started.

Today was one of the days she felt nostalgic for a life that felt so eerily out of place with the world they were living in, but felt too much like a home to not remember fondly.

It always left Sophie feeling confused about everything, so Linh agreed to come with them.

They were walking back to a place where elves could travel in and out of the human world at ease when Sophie felt the change of the sky.

A deep, relieved filled sigh racked her body at the feeling. Linh walked arm in arm beside her down an old street, making easy conversation. The words flowing between them were more of a grounding tool for Sophie than anything. It was light, easy, and comforting. It was Linh, the smell of rain, and an old street Sophie felt glad to remember the route of.

Then it started.

The rain drops started to drip slowly drop by drop around the two of them.

Sophie felt each one hit her skin and then fall down an unpredicted path across their arm. Lightly soaking her jacket, the rain made her feel slightly cold, but not uncomfortable.

She pulled their arm from Linh’s and made them stop walking.

A crack of thunder with a second’s flash of lightning cut off the dialogue the pair had.

The water droplets stopped too.

Sophie looked towards Linh, who had formed a protective umbrella-like shape around them from the sound. “Um?”

“Sorry just … habit, I guess.” Sophie knew faer well enough to overlook the unflinching shield piling with water and notice Linh’s hands anxiously hovering in front of faer, caught in a ghost of memory fae didn’t know how to let go of.

Linh just stood there, a slight blush rising to faer cheeks out of embarrassment, still hovering the drops around them.

“Linh, my love, we aren’t there,” Sophie closed the distance between them and started to run a hand across faer arm while she spoke. It was only a small gesture, but Linh didn’t have a lot of ways to shut faer mind off when fae got like this. “It’s okay. You can relax here.”

“Right, yeah.” Slowly the rain that’d formed an umbrella around them fell into little droplets.

Then the droplets from before came back. Sophie laced her fingers into Linh’s.

The water drops were sporadically falling between their fingers and across their shoulders from their resting spot of the leaves in the tree above them and the sky. It was almost cold enough to make Sophie notice it, but for Linh’s smile that poked at the corners of faer lips.

“I’ve never done this before.” Linh stated, averting her gaze and looking at a squirrel hiding in the tree.

“Hmm?”

“Stood in the rain. I’ve never stood in the rain with someone, myself included.”

“Really?”

“Nope. It never happened where Tam and I lived, and the lost cities don’t really get it.”

An only-half-mocking gasp escaped Sophie.

“Well then, you have to get the full experience.” They released their hand from Linh’s grip and extravagantly bowed with an arm extended so Lihn would take it.

“What are you doing?” The sarcastic eyebrow raised nearly spoke by itself with that tone.

“Let’s dance.” Sophie felt their grin widening.

A genuine chuckle racked Lihn’s stomach while faer shoulders relaxed slightly at the movements.

“You want to dance? The same person that fell down in the school hallway because they thought sliding around a tiled ramp in socks 8 times at full speed was a good idea? When it’s pouring rain and we’re standing on concrete?”

“Yep. We’re going to dance.” Sophie pushed her proffered hand out even more towards Linh.

“Okay! As long as you know the risks going into it.” Lihn smiled widely as she took Sophie’s hand in faers.

Sophie straightened and let their hands fall between them. Three drops touched their fingers.

“Any requests on what to do?”

“You’re the one that insisted we do this, you come up with something.”

Sophie used their joined hands to pull Linh closer. A mischievous grin went to their lips as she looked up at Linh and asked, “you wanna spin?”

Sophie could smell the peppermint from the tea Linh had a few minutes ago when Linh replied “Obviously I do.”

Lihn walked to a spot where each of their arms were fully extended, hands still together, and the world slowed down.

Sophie put up her arm and Lihn hesitantly made a circle with faer feet below it. The wind and rain paused for a moment while Linh’s long hair spun out, creating a whimsical bubble around faer like a silver dress would have. She saw each step Linh took, and knew when she to lower and raise their arm accordingly. Although fae’d only done half a spin so far, Lihn grinned sheepishly at the puddle splashing beneath faer feet.

When faer feet stopped, Linh was face to face with Sophie, clearly a little dizzy.

After a moment of just grinning at each other, Sophie took another step back and put up their arms so Linh could do it again.

With each step, Sophie could feel the grin on their checks widening as Linh’s did. The water framed the scene perfectly, and Linh’s relaxed posture made faer the perfect model for the spotlight.

This time when Lihn’s movie-worthy twirl stopped and Sophie could smell the mint, they put her weight on the tips of her toes and kissed Linh.

The wind lightly picked up around them, Sophie felt a raindrop hit their eyelid, and a dog started barking somewhere nearby, but neither of them cared. It was a soft kiss they could share in a private enough place.

It was a moment that was theirs to share, and a crack of thunder split them up again.

“Is that all the dancing we’re going to do?” There was almost a longing to Linh’s voice.

“Only if you want it to be.”

“I hate to break it to you, but two spins don’t count as a dance, Sunflower.”

“Guess we have to stay a bit longer, then.” Sophie took Linh’s hand in hers and put their other one on faer waist.

“I guess we do,” Linh said, resting faer head on Sophie’s shoulder.

For as long as the storm above them kept bringing down rain, the two of them found themselves spinning to the rhythm of it, not noticing or minding how wet their clothes had gotten.

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