Re-Write The Stars?

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Blunt had no idea what he was doing start to finish. In all reality, he didn’t really know what Stonegit had been talking about, or implying. He didn’t really know what he was going to be saying. He didn’t know why his mind was racing, as if he were about to miss out on something that meant more to him then he could express. He didn’t know why he’d risk so much.
He also didn’t know how to use his emergency portal properly, and ended up flinging himself into Akkey’s cabin door as he was shot out of the watery opening. 
The door and frame rattled as the oversize man hit it, the sound as if Odin himself have given the door a good, stout knock to alert the occupant to his presence. 
@akkeyagentofhelheim
akkeyagentofhelheim
Akkey had her legs stretched out and propped up in front of her, the shadows of the leaves shifted over the old training area behind her house by the cove. The modest cottage had been partly destroyed months ago from her mishap with Liam, but the bare bones of repairs were made that it was livable once again. Memories of old conversations in this place resurfaced as she stared at particularly nothing, while she turned Fiendal’s words from a couple of days ago over and over in her mind.
Do you think you could love a demon? Her eyes glazed over for a moment before the telltale flush of her cheeks flared pink, and she groaned to herself, hiding her face beneath dark locks of hair. Maybe…
She was kicked out of her thoughts as the entire house shook behind her, its hinges creaking dangerously, threatening to collapse. Akkey immediately shot to her feet, “What in Hel’s name–” she zipped towards the beach, popping up through the loose gravel on the ground behind the figure, hackles up and water rippling, ready to attack whatever and whomever it was–
“…Blunt, what the fuck? Are you okay?”
moe-lazyeye
Blunt hoisted himself to his feet, his eyes were wild. No…they were scared. He was like a deer in torch light, which was very much unlike him. 
She saw his conscious effort to reposition his posture to seem more relaxed, although it was clear he wasn’t. He pressed his hands together and pointed his index fingers at her. “Yes.” He answered quickly. “Physically. Okay that was a bad start to this conversation. Permit me a refresh.”
Blunt cleared his throat and took a bow as he picked up her hand in his usual over the top manner. “Akkey my dear, you are looking ravenous today. How are you?” He asked as he kissed the back of it, and Akkey noticed the empty vial hanging from his neck. 
akkeyagentofhelheim
Blunt being a whirlwind of confusing actions was nothing new to Akkey, and she stared at him, still at her standing eye level despite him bending down to kiss her hand, then her eyes narrowed at the sight of the container. Her hand smoothly slid out of his and caught the vial between her fingers to raise it.
“Did… did you use this to get here?” she said slowly, pulling it a little harshly. Her voice raised slightly, “Blunt, this was supposed to be for emergencies! In case I… you know!” There was a quiver in her voice, “What was so important that you had to use a piece of my soul instead of a dragon to get here?”
moe-lazyeye
Blunt went quiet….very…quiet. 
He was staring at her, the way a man starred at a lifeline that kept him from falling down a chasm. One that could very well be slipping through his fingers. Blunt let her hand slip away from his, and took a step back. “Don’t hate me.” He said, and his voice sounded totally void of his usual humor.
He was serious. 
akkeyagentofhelheim
She blinked, at a loss for words, before she took a hesitating step towards him. She was starting to worry.
“You know I could never.”
moe-lazyeye
Blunt put his pressed hands together to his lips and inhaled slowly through his sharp nose. “I hope that’s true…because I don’t know what I’m doing. And after spending my whole life not saying things I just…don’t…want to anymore…”
His throat wen’t dry.
“I haven’t been able to put what we talked about out of my head. The day Stones and I visited Haligan, about how we felt about each other so many years ago.”
akkeyagentofhelheim
She froze in her spot, and she could feel her face burning again. And she knew she was showing it.
“What–” she took a deep breath, trying to calm herself and keep herself from freaking out. For the second time in two days. She continued in a soft voice, “What do you mean?”
moe-lazyeye
Blunt saw her stress and pinched the bridge of his nose as he shut his eyes tightly for a moment. And then he met her gaze.
“I mean…I didn’t just love you then, Akkey…I love you now…”
akkeyagentofhelheim
She pressed her lips together and clenched her fists so tightly that they shook, but no matter how hard she tried, she burst into tears, bringing her hands over her mouth as she wept. Of all the tears she had cried, this was one she didn’t want to flow, but there was no helping it. 
“Why…” she sobbed, “Why now…”
moe-lazyeye
Blunt’s hands were curled into fists as well at this point, and his face was lined with strain and the grief of seeing in such a state.
How could he even begin to explain it? A sudden feeling? Realization? A blind hope? An otherworldly connection? It all sounded so stupid in his own mind. But he had to say something. And more importantly, he had to say the truth.
“I’m so sorry…” He said, his eyes turning to the ground as he forced himself to stay in place. “Akkey I have no explanation for myself. There was just a night where it hit me out of nowhere, like a dream where I just saw you, us, differently…I tried to ignore it…it didn’t work.”
akkeyagentofhelheim
Like a dream where I just saw us differently.
She shook her head, the ache in her chest only deepening, the jumble of thoughts twisting into even more confusion, “What am I supposed to do? I–” Akkey expelled a shaky breath, the tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.
“You have Stonegit! In this lifetime, it’s you and him. And us. We’re not…” she gripped the edge of her shirt, trying to steady herself once more, “You said so yourself. The stars align for us somewhere else. I saw it too, and I was okay with that. Everything was just fine for me, but now you… And Fiendal–!”
moe-lazyeye
Fiendal…oh hel…
Blunt should have figured, and he wasn’t sure if he hated himself more for doing this in light of this knowledge, or over the fact that he was relieved that he hadn’t waited any longer than he did to come to her. 
He did not want to impose himself on her. Not after all this, but he also couldn’t stand to see her looking so…alone…So Blunt very carefully stepped forward, and simply place his hands on her lower arms to offer her a semblance of stability. 
Blunt drew a shaky breath. “I know I have him…ironically, he’s the one that basically shoved me out here to figure this out. I…I can’t say anything for or about Fiendal but…” He gritted his teeth, and tears of his own were threatened behind his eyes. “I don’t know how…but I want to re-write those stars…”
akkeyagentofhelheim
Her vision was blurred as she stared down at their hands, her skin pale against his dark fingers, still clutching at her tunic, hot tears falling down on the gravelly beach. She glanced up at him, eyes still as bright and green, “What would you do if… you didn’t?”
moe-lazyeye
Blunt reached up a careful hand, and used his sleeve to gently brush away a few of her tears. “If I didn’t…if those stars were set in a stone that no chisel could undo I’d-” He stopped as his eyes squeezed shut, two tears dropping down his cheeks. “Sorry…” He said as he pressed his palm to his eyes briefly, and then inhaled as he met her gaze again.  
“I’d be as I was, if you let me. Whatever we were to one another. Whatever we needed to be for one another…I’d wouldn’t pretend this didn’t happen, but I’d work like hel to make sure it didn’t ruin what either of us had. You’re too important to me to do anything else.”
His hands gripped her hands a little tighter, and she could feel the race of his pulse. “But it would break my heart…and that’s not fair to you, I know. I know this is selfish. I know nothing about this promises anything good…I wish I had more than just myself in this situation to offer…but I don’t.”
akkeyagentofhelheim
She didn’t know if she regretted hearing the response to that question or not. Her lips were pressed so hard together that they began to hurt, her eyes following the short, wet trail down his face, and her chest ached, it ached so much, she almost wanted to fling her arms around his neck in an embrace. Where his sleeve touched her cheek burned, his touch as warm and consoling as ever, before it was replaced with fresh tears again. 
She squeezed his hands just as hard, taking a deep breath as she picked her words carefully, “When you didn’t become mine, and instead you were Stonegit’s, I convinced myself it was fine. And it was! He’s a friend, and I came to terms with it, I told myself that it was good as is, because as long as you were happy, and as long as I could remain by your side, I couldn’t ask for more. And I stand by that.” 
“What it turned into, what we have now, whatever this is, I hold very, very dearly to me. And I would protect it until my dying breath.”
She looked up at him, her jaw set in a hard line. Her dark bangs swept across her forehead, framing the scars and the petite face that he knew so well, “I’ve always liked… loved. I loved you, Blunt. And you realized that far earlier that I did. I denied it to myself, but that day we spoke it out loud I realized that it was just the truth of it.”
She shook her head, “Deo asking me out, Fiendal’s confession, Hel, even meeting myself in another timeline in a dream; every single time my mind would still wander back to you. Hard as I tried, I couldn’t help it. And to hear you say those words to me now, for me, that you love me… I should be happier about this.” A single, humourless chuckle left her lips.
“I should be over the moon. So why…” she tried to smile, but her lips quivered as she stopped another sob from surfacing, “Why am I feeling like this? I hate that I’m hesitating, I don’t understand… Why am I not…“ her shoulders heaved as a cry escaped, her grip tightening more than ever. 
Akkey dipped her head, barely a whisper, “It just doesn’t feel right. I will always love you, but it feels… different from before… Something about it changed.”
moe-lazyeye
Blunt’s hands moved up to grip her shoulders. There was desperation in the touch, but also control and restraint. “Because I wronged you.” He said without hesitation. “Because I always end up feeling so strongly about something and then not addressing it right. I’ve stopped lying to others but I still lie to myself and that hurts the people around me…that’s why this is different…because maybe if I had been more careful, thought more clearly, I wouldn’t have hurt you or Stones.”
Blunt remembered the talk they had outside of the grounded dungeon so many years ago. How his heart was divided and he was scared that he would lose his friends if he made the wrong choice. The memory twisted in his gut, but at the same time, there was a rush of blind, delirious happiness and hope. She loved him. Out of everything she had thought back to him…she had said so. But it was fleeting.
His hands, moving only as much as she would permit, gently rose again to cup her face as he met her eyes. “It doesn’t feel right…because of my mistake…and my lack of understanding if this would work, how this would even work…”
“And I’d go back to relive every rotten part of my life if it meant I could get back to this moment with a set in stone solution. But in the absence of that…let me take the time, let me find the way to show you that this ‘not right’ feeling is temporary. Let me find the way to show you that I can make this 'different’ work.”
He gritted his teeth, and this time tears did freely fall. “But for now, can I please hold you? Because I can see my friend is hurting and I don’t know what else to do…”
Let me take the time to show you…
She was shaking. Fiendal’s words repeated in her head at the same moment, Time is limited. We don’t have much of it but we need to make what we do have good. 
That was her turmoil. Fiendal was already willing to wait for her, and she was willing to try, on the chance that she could love him the way he did her. That is what she thought to herself. But she also had to sort out the feelings that already existed, what had changed and what had remained the same, for Blunt, and decide what she wanted. She was being pulled in so many different directions, and if it amounted to nothing, with all this waiting, someone was going to get hurt in the end, and it would have been because of her self doubt. 
A hollow, devastated cry escaped as Blunt wept before her, and she felt the stabbing pain in her heart. She let her forehead hit his chest with a soft thud, realizing how horribly far he felt in that moment as she stayed frozen in the spot all this time, despite standing right by each other, “Of course you can…” Her hands came up to clutch his shirt, trembling and anguished, “I just don’t know anything anymore… All I know is that I don’t want to lose you…”
moe-lazyeye
Blunt wrapped his arms around her fully, doing his best to give her the greatest sense of security and comfort he could. He pressed his forehead into her shoulder. “I’m not going anywhere. No matter what happens here…and if you feel the same…then I guess that’s already a good sign that things are going to be okay…”
He stood in the serenity of the clearing with her, despite the turmoil stirring in their hearts. “I’m lost too Akkey…I really am. I don’t know if never saying anything, never telling you this, would have been right or wrong. But I’m selfish so…”
Silence came over them again, and eventually Blunt guided them down so he could hug her as they sat next to one another on the porch. He wasn’t sure how many minutes had passed before he found the courage to speak again. “I guess…we need to think of what we need to do next, now, because of this…don’t we?” 
akkeyagentofhelheim
She expelled a long, tired sigh, rubbing her palm vigorously across her cheek, feeling very tired, “What next, huh… I don’t even know…” She blinked wearily as she watched the waves unfurl from the lake in the distance. She hesitated, “What about Stones?”
moe-lazyeye
Blunt slowly shook his head, but his hand gripped tighter around her shoulder as he continued to hold her close. “Like I said…he pretty much tossed me out here to talk to you. Like…he wasn’t mad, or even upset, if anything he looked like he was just concerned for me and nothing else. I have no clue what’s going through his head.”
He swallowed thickly, the emotion still tight in this throat. “I still love him…I don’t think I ever couldn’t…” He pressed his lips together, and tilted his head so the side of it touched down on the top of hers. “What about Fiendal?” 
akkeyagentofhelheim
“Right…” she sighed, quiet for a time before continuing, “He told me he loved me… then he asked me if I could learn to love a demon,” She flicked her eyes to the side, half closed as her vision blurred, feeling his weight on top of her, “I said maybe. I was thinking about it right before you came, actually…”
Akkey took a shaky breath, “I just don’t want to make him wait for nothing, if it turns out that I couldn’t return his feelings…”
moe-lazyeye
Blunt closed his eyes, the scent of her hair and the familiarity of her holding him resonating in his mind. How many times had he rested his head like this on hers? And hugged her like this, without ever letting himself feel the way he actually felt?
Once again there was guilt. Blunt had never come between one person and other, even on the grounds of possibility, before…at least by accident that is. And once again, there was also relief met with an equal force of raw anxiety. 
Blunt hummed in acknowledgement. He didn’t really know what to say in light of that. Nor did he want to. That was something Akkey had to come to her own conclusion for. He could only speak in regards to himself. After yet another long pause, he shifted so he could look at her, his grey blue eyes meeting her green ones. His one hand, very carefully, reached around to brush at her tears and a strand of her hair. “I want you to be with who you want to be with. Above even this.”
akkeyagentofhelheim
“I know. I know…” she sighed, leaning into his hand despite herself, meeting his gaze easily. It was a common gesture between them, this focus on each other, like ocean colours mixing in the low light, something that will always be familiar and comforting. But now, in the midst of this realization and baring their feelings, thoughts were intrusive and she couldn’t help but be self conscious. She blinked and pulled her head away a little, a light dusting of pink returning to her cheeks, but still vaguely regretful over the gut reaction.
moe-lazyeye
Blunt’s hand stayed suspended in the air for a moment, before he let it lover back down, and rest on her arm again. They watched the sun, the sky, and the lake for a little longer while still, and eventually Blunt gave a steady, careful breath. They would have to make a choice of what to do next, otherwise the sun would set and likely rise again before either of them moved. 
“Okay…” He grunted a little as he shifted position so he was facing her, and took her hands in his meaningfully. “I don’t want to leave. But if you need the time alone to do, think, and figure out what you need to, I will. I need to talk to Stones…big time…but I also don’t want you to be alone. Nor would I want you stuck in an uncomfortable situation.”
“What I mean to say is that…whatever first step that needs to happen because of all this…Now is probably a good time for it, and I can accommodate you for however you need.”
His eyes became wistful as he saw the color of her cheeks, the shape of her face and lips. His mind warred against him, as it had been for months, if not years. Instead of voicing himself further, he just brushed at another stray tear of hers, his heart breaking over the thought of the pain he had caused with this, the feeling reflected clearly in his eyes. 
akkeyagentofhelheim
She gently took his hand by her cheek in both of hers, mouth parted slightly as empty words hung behind her throat, unable to say a word, but attempting to provide some type of solace, even just a little. She sighed, then brought their hands to her lips and stayed there, brows furrowed and eyes squeezed shut as her turmoil continued.
“I’m…” she finally said in a low voice, but faintly more decisive, “I’m gonna find Fiendal. And I’m gonna talk to him properly and fully, and figure out my head. And then…” 
She open her eyes, a hard, almost stubborn green fire in them, bring their arms down to rest on their laps but gripping his hand with much force and promise, “Then I’ll come to you. I’ll come to you, and then…” she trailed off, because she didn’t know what then, what new path was written in the stars for them. But she shook her head, still bright eyed, and leaned forward, “I’ll come to you. So you go talk to Stonegit, then I’ll see you again.”
moe-lazyeye
I’ll come to you…
Despite all of this. Somehow, that was all he needed to hear. For now at least.  
His body automatically leaned forward in response to her. But he stopped, his breath catching for a second in his chest. 
He stood up, and bent down to kiss her clasped hands, and then let go with a shaky sigh as he took a step back, so that were would be enough room to make a portal. 
“I’ll wait for you…” He said, and meant each, and every, word of it. 
akkeyagentofhelheim
Akkey held his gaze for another long moment, her small, crouched frame an oddly familiar image from many years ago in a modest merchant’s guild, her fingers delicately touching ground in front of her and opening a portal beneath his feet.
“I’ll see you soon…” she said softly as he sank. 
She blinked.
And he was gone.
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