Photo Prompt. Maximum 500 Word Drabble. Those already on the Tricky Raven site, check out Fall Into Autumn.
Thought I'd try something new, while my other stories are on hold. And, yes they will be updated, doing my best to get things moving. x
To anyone else in the park they looked like a young couple in love.
You would never know that under the October sun sat two people who had seen more autumns than they could count. Blood, sweat and tears had literally been spent to get them where they were and every choice they'd made had held its own consequence.
Still, Jacob Black would never wish it any different. His feelings for Leah Clearwater surpassed love. No other woman could bring him to his knees like she could and equally, no other man could quell the fire that raged inside her.
She was his beta, his she-wolf, his imperfect, perfect mate.
In truth, imprinting had never stood a chance. Not when he realised what she truly meant to him. The moment she left him for this city he had known it in his bones. Home wasn't a place, it was her.
He had followed her, refusing to leave. Imbedding himself so deep in her life that she finally had no choice but to let him in, to trust that he wouldn't leave her like they all had before. And, he had succeeded; he proved it to not only her, but to all of the doubters. His reward? She now wore his mothers wedding ring on her left hand.
Since then, they had travelled the world, never stopping long in one place. The years had flown by, but never did time show on their beautiful faces. It wasn't until the last of their pack had grown old and moved on, that they had stopped and looked at the world around them.
Much had changed and nothing had all at the same time. They visited La Push for what they knew would be the last time. There were no longer any ties to bring them back, nor were they needed; the community had a new chief and pack to protect it.
As they walked through the reservation, they smiled at the ghosts of their loved ones, their faces young again in the children that played along the beach. They sat together on top of cliffs that held memories they would never forget and ran though woods where so much, both good and bad, had happened.
It was then that they decided it was time. The past no longer haunted them and the things they felt had been stolen from them in their youth, had been replaced by years of life and love. They were finally ready for the final journey. They were ready to stop phasing and grow old, perhaps even gracefully.
And, so they had found themselves sitting on the very same bench, in the very same city where he had first found her.
And, yes, to other people they looked like a young couple in love, but if any of them had dared to look close enough, they might have just glanced the many shades of autumn that they had seen and a world of love they never dreamed existed.