oooooh i’m really excited for this one!! hope you like it, anon!
he said, “i’d burn for you”
calloused: a field journal. taylor rhodes. p.45
You lay with him beneath a bed of roses, their petals tickling your cheeks, thorns brushing over your skin. He said, “I’d die for you, you know.”
And you traced the ink of his tattoo.
Fumbled with the feathers coloring his chest.
Told him, voice quiet, words little more than ripples in the air: “You can’t tear yourself apart for me.”
“Try and stop me,” he said.
His hands fell to your waist, pulling you closer, seeking desperately to hold you within himself, safe behind his ribcage. He closed his eyes, and you counted his lashes—one, two, three…
Your Shield.
In these moments, he felt so fragile, so broken beneath the weight of a crown he could never wear. His scars leapt from his chest, his arms, his face, searching for healing within the marrow of your bones. You almost convinced yourself that you could fix him.
But he was all muscle and nails and fire in his blood, and you—
You were the bottle of rum at two a.m; a flask hiding behind the leather of his jacket, liquid courage flooding his veins when his battles reached for the life in his chest.
You slipped your hand into his, fingers tangling, locking in centuries’ worth of unspoken promises, clearing the horrors from his mind as your eyes found each other. Gasoline and whiskey fell into the sparks flooding his veins, and you set him alight with your gaze—alcohol swimming in your irises, seeping into his pores, intoxicating him in a moment with a glance.
You squeezed his hand. His heart was blazing, burning, beating.
And he fell into you—further, further, building the flames with every touch, breathing in the ashes, rising from them again and again.
He said, “I’d burn for you.”
For your valentines special :0 45,Gladio
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