AU - MAGNI & LAKSHMI

[mahalakshmi]

if you'll be my light, i'll be your shelter

i. first meeting | a non existent engagement and a hasty marriage ii. a tempertantrum in a thunderstorm | sticks and stones may break my bone but words will leave me with crippling anxiety (and a headcold) iii. a kindness of intimacies | nsfw, sometimes, love is like falling into an icy lake iv. just like the battle of troy, there is nothing subtle here | when the world conspires to consistently make you insecure about your wife.

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[villieldr]

Carefully, respectfully, she keeps her back turned. Granted she is making the fire, so perhaps there is a degree of necessity in there as well, but her gaze stays carefully trained forward. At least this is something she is experienced enough in, and soon there is a fire crackling to life, smoke rising in wisps up the chimney.

Her own clothes are soaked, but she doesn't see to that quickly. First hangs up some of Rani's wet things on some lines so they might dry, and then goes to retrieve more dry things and blankets, banishing herself to a corner to get changed. The clothes fit her better, though some of the supplies are not designed for someone of her height, and so look slightly tragic. Claiming a place next to Rani, she brings more blankets, and wraps them around her wife's shoulders, her arm tentatively coming to rest there as well, hugging Rani to her side.

"Rest. We'll dry out and get warm, and if the rain has stopped, we'll travel back in the morning Sleeping might help your cold."

[mahalakshmi]

Too big for Lakshmi, too little for Magni, what a pair they made, as she's wrapped around. Which -

- The bed isn't fit for much, the floor is bare stone and the wind is howling with the worst of the storm outside. Beating down in sheets of water. It's a miserable night, and one, that otherwise she would feel loathe to withstand. Especially - here, where nothing is right, everything is woefully so different that she could not even trust her own judgement over the sky.

But... as she takes long, slow breathes... it isn't. Her body relaxes. Maybe, it is that she is ill, or perhaps the simplicity of being held while being so. Leaning by little amounts into Magni's side. "I do not think I will be able to do much else. My head seems to think it will either ache or sleep, no matter what I do."

[villieldr]

"I'll be here." Whatever she needs to do, Magni will be here. Maybe what she means is less immediately, as well: I am with you, I will be by your side.

Hesitantly, she leans down to kiss Rani's temple. She can feel her relaxing little by little, and it makes her ease as well, as she takes Rani's hands between her own to warm them. Sleep is teetering closer to her, as well, as she stifles a yarn.

"Next time I kiss you maybe we can skip this coldness first?"

It's a joke that mercifully escapes being too awkward - at least, on her end.

[mahalakshmi]

She looks up at her with a dazed smile, sick, definitely sick. But happy.

No, more effused than happy. Her hand smoothing over Magni's shoulder, her neck, tickling her fingers in a light curl under her jaw. Sweet, even if she sniffles in the middle of it. Unsure yet - touching. Trying. Finding out for herself what it was to be near to her and with it...

Content.

"Next time, I promise." Her legs shift close, her toes, unnoticed to her, burrow under Magni's leg, leeching her heat needily.

[villieldr]

Magni doesn't quite manage to muster her voice or more words. She feels like she has spoken a lot, though logically she is aware that she really hasn't. A slight itch in her throat, but she clears it and disregards it. Nothing to worry about, just tiredness. Definitely not her getting sick, too.

The toes might be unnoticed by Rani, but Magni notices them, huffs quiet laughter to herself, and hugs her closer. The glow of the fire is finally starting to grant the room some warmth, and it feels all the more comforting with the whistling gale outside.

Gradually, she slouches back against the pillows, brings Rani with her, and even in that sleepiness, protectively hugs her close. The rain stops, eventually, but she's still got her arms wrapped around her dear heart.