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]

"I hope someone saw to calling the doctor," she says by way of quiet agreement. They are all of them bruised and battered and stiff, and would benefit from medical inspection, just to know that no damage will be lingering. Krogstad was strong, but he was still an older man, and though he was already a dark grey, now his hair was more run through with silver. And then—

"I need to see to sending help to our people. There's work to do." A reminder to herself. She can't rest, not yet. Bathing and resting would have to wait, though her body feels like it might come apart at the prospect of needing to do more. She just wants to hold her Rani close, inhale the scent of her, feel the kicks of their baby under her palm.

[mahalakshmi]

"There is, and right now, you share it with us. No doubt your mother has already sent word for them, and sent them to your men." She takes Magni's hands in her own and beckons her up by way of a little tug. "You can give the rest of your orders in the bath."

A coaxing compromise, she hopes, as she beckons her closer, nearer. "You made it, you are here now, let us look after the rest." Her mountain was going to crumble if she pushed herself too much further, harder, could feel that rumbling earthquake below the surface.

[villieldr]

Standing is harder than it has any right to be, and where she would normally stand with no difficulty, now Magni has to pause and ease herself up as her muscles protest the work. Her Rani hardly needs to prompt her closer, she is already moving so, nodding her understanding. She couldn't do everything, and recovering was important - she needed to be there for her wife, her little one, all their people. She just wishes that it felt less like giving in, to let herself relax when so much had happened and so many had perished in the storm.

"I might—" her jaw works uncomfortably. "I might have nightmares. I want you with me, but you need to sleep," for her own health, for the baby, and Magni can't in good conscience beg Lakshmi to sleep by her side with how disturbing her dreams have been. I need to be stronger than this.

[mahalakshmi]

Lakshmi shakes her head in dismissal of the idea that Magni would even be apart from her for a second from here on out. Recovery or otherwise.

"I need to sleep, it is true, and I can only have it when you are with me." She lifts both her hands, sliding against her cheeks, cupping her face. "Only now can I rest, now that I have you again."

She leans up, standing all the way on her tiptoes that half makes her topple from being out of balance from her far too big belly. But not to go far, only to kiss her forehead soundly. "We will face your dreams, together. And when you wake, I will be there to tell you where you are."

With me, with me, with me.

[villieldr]

As the risk of toppling comes, Magni braces her hands against Lakshmi's sides to make sure she is steady, and leans down to make the kiss easier, leaning into the contact hungrily.

For long moments she is silent, not sure how to speak without her voice betraying her, without making the weakness all too apparent, hands holding tightly onto Lakshmi.

"I missed you." Miserable with it, her voice finally cracking.