In a Different Life
Another f!Hawke/Anders fic. Anders reflects on how his life may have been if the circumstances were different.
Disclaimer: Dragon Age belongs to EA Games and Bioware, not me.
In a different life we would have met in fairer circumstances. Fate would bring us together not for because we need one another, but because the time seemed right. Perhaps we would be introduced by a mutual friend, who thought we would get along. I would laugh at all of your jokes, and make excuses to see you or talk to you. Then one day I might muster to courage to ask you out. When you say yes I feel like the luckiest man in the world. We would meet in the evening and stroll through the gardens. If I were feeling brave I might take your hand, and tell you how you make me feel.
In different life, we would be wed. When the time came to propose I would stutter and shake so terribly, but you would take my hand and everything would become clear. We would be married in the eyes of the Maker, and surrounded by friends with no Templars to say otherwise. The tears that brim in your eyes would be from happiness, not betrayal.
In a different life we would have children. Boys, girls, no matter what I would promise to love them each day of my life. I always thought you would make the most wonderful mother, the one who would guide her children with a steady hand. Our children would want for nothing, and know nothing of injustice, and each night they would sleep knowing we were only next door.
In a different life I would grow old with you. You would call me old and kiss my crows' feet, then laugh when I remark upon your grey hair. I would not feel this taint inside me, calling me to my doom. We would be free to live our lives to their end in peace.
"In ten, a hundred years from now, someone like me will love someone like you, and there will be no Templars to tear them apart."
I did not write the last line, it is a line said by Anders at the end of his romance.