∩and∪, get it?How reminisecent of high school maths.
A Ion x Esther storyOne-shot
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"You're finally back." Esther mused.
"Yep." Ion replied. He WAS worn out. After leading an expedition to the New World, he had to be. It was a joint venture between the Albion Kingdom and the Empire, and it took him about a year.
And though tiring, it allowed him to escape the final days of the Cold War, as the Cold War never reached America. But even so, it was a real mess. Except for the place the Albions called Nova Albion (New England) and Nova Eboracium (New York) , which they speedily annexed after the Armageddon, being the isolated island they were, which suffered little other than daily floods.
Interestingly, the first thing the Duke of Memphis noticed that there WAS another place, in the southern side of America, called Memphis, in what WAS the state of Tennessee. It was an outpost of the early Empire's missionaries (they were some form of Christian), which, thought nothing as grand as anything in the rest of the discovered world, was something to note, at least it was something to write back about. No prizes for guessing what the Duke did. He annexed the whole of Northern America, which was as far as his founds would go, and established the Empire's new territory there.
But in so doing, he left his Keeper of the Swords post to someone else. Who miffed the Empress by first going WESTWARDS to annex Europe while losing the WHOLE of Mid-East and Asia to separatists. (Hey where's the Secretary of the Interior!?)
But that wasn't too much to care about right now. Ion had returned.
And she was going to pamper Esther. A lot.
"You've missed me right?"
"Lots." She sunk her head into Ion's caressing arms.
"I'm sorry."
"It's your job."
"Like I really wanted to."
"Oh well."
"It's all right now."
"I've been having nightmares."
"Like what?"
"Like, I'm falling endlessly."
"Oh." Ion was busy combing Esther's hair.
"And, paperwork."
"Oh…"
"Yeah. Why did you leave me alone?"
Ion licked up her tears. It was salty, but anything of Esther's was something Ion loved. "It's been hard on you." He was terribly sorry, but there was little more he could do. She and Albion, as well as the Empire benefitted anyway, and she couldn't complain.
"Just promise me one thing."
"What?"
"Don't make me intercept your trips anymore. I missed you so much, I had to. You spent a whole year outside, when I needed you."
"Sorry."
"And, promise me, never to break the Union."
"I get it."
"I'll make you sorry if you did."
"Uhuh."
Lifting Esther off the ground, he carried her bridal style down the hallway, out of Esther's office, onto her bed.
"Hey, let me help."
"What help, huh?" Esther blushed.
"Help you take off."
"WHAT!?"
"Take off your jewelry, silly. You want to be pierced by your diamonds at night?"
"Silly me."
"And I'll give you."
"NO, I DON'T NEED… NOTHING FROM YOUR BODY, JUST YET." She was visibly flushed.
"I'll give you a kiss, dammit."
"Stop teasing me."
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