Prompt: Kisses because I don't want you to go and maybe I can convince you to stay just a few minutes longer (another kiss meme) + Jackanda
For bluewishdust
A/N: Post ME3, Everyone's Alive and Happy AU
This is sappy as hell but they deserve to be happy goddammit.
Everything is quiet around them, and it's moments like this that make Miranda realise just how grateful she is that the universe didn't end.
Jack is lying right next to her, soft and warm. It's unbelievable how kind and gentle she is when they are together. Something changed about her. She's still the same person she was before but there's no trace of anger in her left. No more hate poisoning her from within.
Perhaps Miranda changed as well. For the best, I hope, she thinks, idly playing with her lover's hair.
„I should go," Jack whispers, her hot breath tickling Miranda's skin. Despite her words she doesn't move.
"Are we quoting Shepard now?" Miranda laughs.
"What– oh. I guess he does say that a lot."
Jack sits up, stretches and yawns. Miranda feels her lips curl into a smile. Who would have thought that they end up together like this…
She vividly remembers the day when they almost killed each other, Jack's fury palpable as she shouted at Miranda how much she hates Cerberus, how much she hates her. Shepard saved them both, in a way, by forcing them to live together on the Normandy, then cooperate during missions. And then…
We both had to grow up, Miranda muses. She reaches out her hand to caress Jack's face. Something squeezes her heart when the woman leans in to her touch.
She moves so her lips can brush Jack's collarbone, then travel up to place a kiss on her neck. Miranda never considered herself sentimental, but she can't help but love those lazy mornings when they can stay in bed and do nothing other than enjoy each other's company.
"Can't you stay for a little while?" she whispers to Jack's ear. "Five more minutes?"
Jack lets out a sigh, looking more than content. Then she closes her eyes as Miranda moves to kiss her lips. Happiness makes them silly; irresponsible perhaps but it matters little when they can simply be together like this.
"You're very persuasive, Miss Lawson," Jack laughs and it's the sweetest sound Miranda's ever heard.
