10✿ Pairing → Leon•Ada
✿ Word Count → 652
✿ Summary → I'll survive on the memory of you. She smiles calmly as she walks on down the street away from his apartment, the lingering feel of his lips imprinted forever on her soul.
【Stolen Wings】
She awakens slowly, pleasantly.
Her bones pop as she stretches, a dreamy cat on a throne of silk and pillows. The air above the covers is cool—chilly even. Sniffing at it, she turns and curls snugly up to him.
He's warm, his soft breathy snore comforting. Being next to him like this—it's… different. Her lashes flutter as she watches him breathe, his chest rising and falling beneath the covers. The sudden desire to touch him, to skim her fingers over his naked skin and reignite the lingering embers from last night's fire, moves over her like the rising tide… all-encompassing.
An impish smile teases her lips and she nuzzles his shoulder, relishing this fleeting moment of him being hers, solely hers. It won't be long before they would both have to wake up, but she will preserve every detail about him, about them. She'd drink this memory in like an elixir for her soul and tuck it away safely inside her heart. I snuck into Heaven with you last night, handsome, but I can't steal your wings forever… She reaches out to his lips, her fingertips ghosting them tenderly. Earth is a long hard fall, but I guess you're worth it. She closes her eyes as his moist breath warms her skin.
Time moves quietly, ticking away like an every quickening heart beat. She wraps her arms around him possessively, desperately. He groans sleepily and rolls on his side, his face now mere centimeters from hers. She breathes him in, savoring him. His lips twitch and her name is a contented rumbling sigh.
An ache suddenly spreads across her chest, stealing her breath away. Wanti—needing you like this… it isn't something I'm used to, or something that I'm willing to let go. Her eyes widen at the silent confession. Needing him—she'd known for quite a few years now that Leon had become special to her, in more ways than one, but to completely understand the connection between them, to feel it coursing through her veins like electricity… to make love to him.
This is… entirely new to her.
Perhaps it's because of this very reason that she'd been running all those years. Leon, the exposed vein of her heart, the chink in her impenetrable exterior.
She gazes at him, involuntary tears threatening to fall. "I love you, Leon Scott Kennedy." Her hushed whisper tickles his nose and he scowls. The action makes her smile despite herself and she takes a deep breath, steadying her trembling heart before she continues. "I've loved you for so long… that I don't feel empty, anymore."
What is that feeling? She muses to herself. Emptiness… She must have forgotten it some time ago. Had she been ignoring the truth all this time? Is that how it left without her noticing?
His eyelids flicker with dreams and she can hear time's heartbeat quickening again. It's time for me to leave, handsome, even though I… She caresses his face affectionately. I'll find my way back. I promise.
She barely makes a sound as she slips from his bed, the cold air sucking his warmth away from her bare skin. Paying little attention to it, she moves quickly to find her clothes, which are littered all throughout the apartment. She smirks to herself. One of the potted plants is knocked over. They must have hit it without realizing… Well, they were both pretty distracted. Her smirk breaks into a Cheshire grin.
After dressing, she finds a piece of paper and a pen. He wouldn't be happy with a 'goodbye' note, but then again, neither is she. However, things outside this little paradise don't change, handsome, and I have to fall back to Earth at some point. Before she folds it in half, she fishes her lipstick out of her skirt pocket and applies it to her lips. With a final seal of her rose pink lips, she sneaks back into his bedroom and leaves the note near his pillow. He doesn't even stir.
She pauses at the doorway, her murmur lost to the crisp morning chorus of birds. "I'll be back, Leon. I promise."