A/N: These stories are joined together primarily because they're all quite short. They shouldn't be read as "chapters" in a larger continuum. There is no larger story here. These are only short/brief one-shots tied together by a common theme. Enjoy!
I stared at the sky but I couldn't focus on anything real. What was I seeing? What was I really looking at? Did any of this matter? Do I matter? I felt his hands on my skin and everything faded away. Bliss blurred the edges of my psyche and it no longer mattered if I could see at all. Blindness was a welcome lover, an intimate friend. We got along well and I invited him in. Our arms intertwined. Our fingers braided. I held onto him as though I knew he would be torn away at any moment. Don't let go of me. Don't leave me. Let's stay together, just like this.
Just like this.
In the heat, the humidity, his cool skin was liberating. I clamored to be close to him, to kiss the soft ripples of his musculature, to bathe in the gentle stream of cold blood that ran beneath his flesh. I could taste him on my tongue before I could really taste him. There's nothing like him, nothing like that elixir. Ambrosia. Food of the Gods. Whatever you want to call it, it flows through him, a fountain. I licked my lips, dry and getting drier, but the moisture burned away. Nothing could keep me damp, nothing but him.
Nothing but him.
We danced together beneath the breathing moon, two exotic creatures. Bound, laced together, we were the most perfect of partners. Our shadows fingered the hot grass. Our golden manes curtained off the night. I drifted in the ocean of his deep blue eyes. I drowned in the cool sea of his mouth. He pressed my wrists over my head, pushed me down, farther and farther. I am a captive. I am a slave. I am yours. I bit at his arrested lip and soaked in the sound of his dark voice. You belong to me, my lover.
My lover.
He is inside me and all around me. He fills me, a cup brimming, overflowing. Each drop of him rolls down my lips and stains my trembling skin. My hushed cries echo in the empty night. The stars are listening, spirits wishing they were in my place. No one can take my place when I am with him. There is no escape from here, from this moment, from this time. My flesh reacts and I draw him in. Closer now, lover. Come closer.
Come closer.
Hold me. Take all of me into you. Cherish me and worship me. Feed me and fill me. This is perfection, here under the summer night. Blinded, I still see you. I will never stop seeing you. You radiate in my mind like the beams of the violent sun you'll never see. Soothe me. Tell me I'm safe. No lies. No secrets. Change the world for me. Chase the nightmares and welcome the dreams. Come into me, I'll appear within you.
I'll appear within you.