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]

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.