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She has some things in the room-that-was-hers, still, really, but most of them--nearly all, if Lucy thinks on it--are in the room-that-is-theirs, now.
And she's glad of it, because she's no interest in carrying things about tonight, as they both step through the painting and she looks over at Caspian, eyes a little tired and a great deal pleased.
Because they're home.
And that alone is enough for all to be right with the world.
And she's glad of it, because she's no interest in carrying things about tonight, as they both step through the painting and she looks over at Caspian, eyes a little tired and a great deal pleased.
Because they're home.
And that alone is enough for all to be right with the world.
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Date: 2006-09-10 06:56 pm (UTC)"It's what I could give you," she says quietly and strokes his arm gently as she kisses his cheek.
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Date: 2006-09-10 10:49 pm (UTC)"You changed."
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Date: 2006-09-10 11:54 pm (UTC)"Do you like it?" His gaze had really been answer enough in a way, but she asks anyway.
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Date: 2006-09-11 01:02 am (UTC)"I like it," he says, between kisses down her neck, "very much."
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Date: 2006-09-11 01:07 am (UTC)"I'd thought you might. We need to write Lilly's thank you note first."
She's not entirely sure how that one will be phrased, yet, but it will very much be meant.
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Date: 2006-09-11 01:20 am (UTC)"The thank-you note can wait."
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Date: 2006-09-11 01:25 am (UTC)It's a soft kiss, really, and gentler than most, or at least starts that way, but she continues it like she'll never need to breathe again.
She's not sure, as long as she's doing this, that she ever will, really.
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Date: 2006-09-11 01:53 am (UTC)"I love you," he tells her, and then begins to smile again. "We're married." They've said it dozens of times now, and he still can hardly believe it.
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Date: 2006-09-11 01:58 am (UTC)She doesn't know that she can think of anything so beautiful as to see it on his hand.
"And a better husband I couldn't find, I think, if I'd been actively looking for one." Lucy smiles as her eyes look back up at his face.
"You're rather stuck with me forever, now."
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Date: 2006-09-11 02:08 am (UTC)"And, my Lucy, I don't mean to go anywhere without you ever again. So I rather think that is the finest thing to ever happen to me."
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Date: 2006-09-11 02:12 am (UTC)Her eyes are a little serious, though, as she moves her hand to touch his cheek. "Even if we should--if something should happen, and we're parted--in the end, I'll find you," she concludes, and leans over to kiss him.
When she continues, it's against his mouth and with a slightly wicked grin as she murmurs, "You say it's the finest thing because you haven't truly started your wedding night yet," eyes bright and laughing.
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Date: 2006-09-11 02:25 am (UTC)"You have something else in mind for me, my lady?" he teases, pulling her gently towards him so that their legs tangle together.
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Date: 2006-09-11 02:29 am (UTC)"I thought about asking Lilly for ideas," she says, nonchalantly, as she traces pictures on his chest.
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Date: 2006-09-11 02:37 am (UTC)"Well, I daresay she's had some good ideas in the past," he admits. A little resignedly.
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Date: 2006-09-11 02:40 am (UTC)"But she started talking about tying to the bed, and I didn't think you'd want to try that, somehow, and was afraid of what else she might suggest."
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Date: 2006-09-11 03:09 am (UTC)"Aye, mayhap we'd best put that idea to the side for now."
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Date: 2006-09-11 03:13 am (UTC)"But I have plans, aye. To not let you sleep any time soon is a large part of them." It's teasing, and it's not, as there's something in her eyes that's simple desire. "If that's all right with you."
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Date: 2006-09-11 03:24 am (UTC)She wouldn't, really, have it any other way, she thinks, though part of her...
Part of her is ever Lucy who was born in 1931, and that part is never gone, and that's the part that never thought this night would happen this way.
Her voice is muffled, a little, by the skin of his breast and then his stomach, but not so much it's hard to understand, not really. "Are you sorry that we didn't wait?"
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Date: 2006-09-11 03:38 am (UTC)"No," he says, softly. "Truth be told, Lucy, I believe I took you as my wife, if only in thought and not in name or deed that first night that we promised not to leave each other. I found no wrong in our love together.
"Are you?"
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Date: 2006-09-11 03:51 am (UTC)"When I woke up," she says, slowly, "the first time after we slept together--I felt a little like I'd failed, somehow. Without quite knowing what. Maybe only what my parents would have had from me. I suppose I felt so for a while, but when you woke up and looked at me--it wasn't awkward, not really. Not like I thought it would be, even though I was naked. And so I felt a little like I'd failed, but I didn't care, either. Not at all." She leans over to kiss him, firmly, and then to kiss his ear and continue. "It mattered, what we did today. But you are my husband, and have been for months, say true, without any ceremony except a promise between us. And I am not sorry for anything I've ever shared with you. If you and I had never formally wed, I wouldn't be sorry."
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Date: 2006-09-11 04:07 am (UTC)"I love you," he says, and it's as much of a promise as the vows he gave her earlier.
"My lady wife."
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Date: 2006-09-11 04:25 am (UTC)"And I you. With all that I am, I love you."
It isn't even a promise, it's just a statement.
You don't have to promise that the sun will rise in the east; it just is always so.
"And that is why," she whispers, "I never regretted any of it."
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Date: 2006-09-11 04:42 am (UTC)And--
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Date: 2006-09-11 04:52 am (UTC)Caspian comes up next to her and they talk for a while, about Eustace's sulking and about her own world and about things back in Narnia, and then they say nothing, and watch the sun set.
And the stars come out, and Lucy looks back at them with him and says, softly, "There's the leopard," glancing over at him as she points.
He's looking at the sky, not at her, and for a moment--for a moment--
for a moment Lucy remembers just how old she is, and how much it hurts to be a woman in a little girl's body again, and when she looks back up she sees a star falling and wishes that someday she'll be just right and so will he--
--and in the bar, another star falls and goes out, as Lucy's hands drift lower and Caspian's mouth moves from her own to her neck--
and then, well--
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Date: 2006-09-18 03:51 am (UTC)Everyone deserves some privacy on their wedding night.