Suddenly we're dancing, and it's as if everything in the world hinges upon that dance.
The freeness, the elation.
...From it, succumbing to the darkness can wait...
We're alone, and it's pure, and it's wholesome, and it's more than a thousand other things that don't have vocabulary equivalents because it's just so easy.
::It's swirling, and moving, and feeling no rhythm, yet needing no beat.::
All by ourselves, dancing in the dark, wading in the almost full-moon and the /shards of pain it brings/. Fretting about the world, and the night, and the things that are beyond our control.
(Being kids.)
Feeling f-r-a-g-i-l-e yet being held, with Sirius' calloused hands gripping my shoulders, and brushing my hair, and kissing my nose; things that no one would suspect of Sirius, but that ignites my soul just because it's for me.
Our dancing is sudden, and unprompted, and sloppy, and drastic, and terrible because we've never had a decent lesson in our lives, :but that's okay:.
The light comes back into my eyes, and into Sirius' smile, and because of it we're bumping into tables, and beds, and knocking over stacks of books [sent flying to the floor], and tripping on shoes.
There's shades of /maroon/ in our peripheral, and his /dark/ /swirling/ /robes/ caress my legs, and my lack-of-robes becomes somewhat meaningful.
He's so gentle with me that it almost hurts, and we're somehow existing in a moment where no one can see us, and no one can hear us, and for that it's beyond perfect.
::I feel breathless even before he kisses me, and my heart wrenches in anticipation, and then he does- his arms steady, and his mouth searing, and my head is dizzy because it's still back there whirling.::
For that moment we're alive with no purpose or regrets, and it's mind absorbing so I can't remember why I was fretting so much to begin with.
I fall into his arms, ((because he's there to catch)), and search in his eyes for something that I'm not sure what until I see the f i n a l i t y in them and I know where we belong; (and that that's anywhere where we're together.)
Suddenly we're dancing, and I know that this is all the beauty in the world, and for that, it's all I'll ever need.