Here. Have a little Caryl kiss. We better get something much better than this on our screens. Just saying.
But until then…have a rambling Shae version of the big moment, and I do mean rambling, lol. Don't judge too harshly. I'm trying mightily to work myself out of this cursed writer's block.
We'll just set this in the future. Sometime post Season 7.
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"Can I kiss you?"
The question is soft. Nothing more than a breath of air really. But she hears it. She feels it, right down to her bones, and his face. His dear, unreadable face blurs before her eyes. Her teeth sink into her lower lip, and a sound between a sob and utter joy threatens to bubble free, and she's nodding because words have deserted her. They've all left. All the gentle teasing of years gone by. All the brave innuendos meant to make him blush. She's the one burning now, the one whose skin is tingling and whose heart is taking flight, and dear God. He's so close. He's so warm. He's so Daryl, and his hands are shaking just as much as hers. They're rough and they're gentle and they're cupping her face, and his nose. It nuzzles her own, shy and unsure. His lashes flutter against her damp skin. And his mouth. It's clumsy and sweet and all things good. A little too eager, a little too hurried, but it's Heaven all the same, warm and wet and wondrous as it gives and it gives and it gives, until they're panting against each other's lips and her hands are clutching at the breadth of his shoulders, and she smiles. She laughs, joyous and bright, shaky because she's still trembling head to toe, but so is he. So is he, but his blue eyes shine, and his mouth curls in that little half lip smile she fell in love with one hundred and one wars and a lifetime ago, and her hands find his hair. Her forehead rests against his, and his thumb maps out her happiness, commits it and the moment to memory, and the words just come, light and teasing, a callback and a challenge one in the same. "Took you long enough."
"Pfft. Stop."
"Why don't you make me?"
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