FALL HEAVY INTO YOUR ARMS (COPHINE FIC)
A/N: For Sabinne because I'm trying to redeem myself from this photoset/ficlet.COPHINE FEELS HERE but I promise it's a happy ending, potassium? (K?) Title from I Will Wait by Mumford and Sons. Listen to these too. Fix You - Coldplay | Save You - Simple Plan
Fall Heavy Into Your Arms
I will try to fix you
I wish I could save you my love
But I will wait
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She knew it had consequences but she never expected this. She just had Cosima back but somehow their relationship already had a looming deadline above their heads. Her words still rang in her head as they laid on the couch in Felix's loft.
I'm sick, Delphine.
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It's been a few months and they still haven't found answers. Cosima stayed strong, even if Delphine knew she wakes up in the middle in the night to grieve for the life given yet soon to be taken away from her. Delphine never said anything, just let her cry her heart out every night, because she knew Cosima needed it.
She grieved too, sometimes, because she was so helpless.
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It broke her to see the bucket list Cosima had written but never said anything about it either. If this was what she wanted, so be it.
—
Time was never on their side. She said she was sorry, like always, for being late.
—
She didn't know how to keep going anymore. The experiments were not showing any progress and so was Cosima but she didn't let herself stop from searching for answers from everywhere. She had scoured all the books in the libraries, asked and worked with different scientists and doctors to help her with Cosima's case.
She could have given up when they all kept telling her that it was futile, but she didn't.
As impossible as it looked from everyone else's perspective, she had hope.
It was all she clung to those days.
And Cosima.
Sweet, sweet Cosima, with her never fading smile and warm arms that welcome Delphine into refuge and safety after every failure. She was all that kept Delphine sane.
They kept each other whole.
—
More months passed.
Until a year had gone by.
Cosima had told her to give up but she never did.
I will never do that as long as I breathe, Cos, she insisted, making Cosima cry in her arms for the first time since that embrace in Felix's loft.
—
They never grieved alone then. Delphine would quietly hold Cosima in her arms in the middle of the night as she cried, as she silently wept as well.
The days found them in the laboratory, doing everything in their power to find the answer they have searched for so long.
Each day they have fallen more and more in love with each other. It came with all that they had gone through, especially this.
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It was one of those gloomy days where the rain poured endlessly that Delphine froze in her actions, a pen between her lips and papers full of graphs and sketches and formulas in hand. She swore in that moment her heart stopped and the pen fell from her lips to the floor.
What's wrong? Cosima asked around the piece of bacon she was chewing.
We found it, she whispered, still in disbelief. We found it, Cos.
—
It took a few more weeks before the development became more obvious. Day by day life returned to Cosima, even if the light in her smile never went away.
—
The white dress just reached below her knees but she deemed it sufficient enough. She was never that fancy anyway and it was the thought that counted. She waited alone in front of everyone else, eyes on the door, until it opened and revealed Cosima in her own white dress, the smile that had kept stealing her heart all these years on her face.
Cosima looked at her like she was the only person in the world, which reflected just how Delphine felt.
They recited their own vows in shaky voices, their words laden with promises and science jokes. The kiss felt like it was the first they had shared in years: full of love, hope, and trust.
Full of love.
Until these days of darkness which we've known
Will blow away with this new sun
I'll be there for you
To guide you home
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End.