Title: I Wonder…
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 279
Pairing: Team Underpants
Round/Fight: 1/A
Summary: "I wonder if he's half the lover that I am": He's present, and he's somewhere else, and Miri wonders about this. (Part of "If I Never See Your Face Again" prompt cycle; lyrics by Maroon 5.)
It was their thing, laying back under the stars at the beginning of the summer.
They could look and look for hours, pointing out constellations until they were making them up and they both knew it.
It was the first time they'd been out this year, for the Own and the Riders had been out on tour for the most of the spring, and Evin had forgotten how much he missed sitting out here with Miri. He wondered if it was because he hadn't missed anything, anything at all, for as long as they'd been out.
Still, this night sky looked like the night sky he had been living under for the past few weeks, and he couldn't help but remember that company, strong arms and blue eyes that twinkled, reflecting the stars. The nights were more pleasant than the days.
Skirmishes, raids, brown uniforms and blue uniforms mixed in the frenzy, ponies and warhorses driving forward, back to back with someone, any one, and it always seemed to be Dom, solid Dom, who covered him when his flanks were unguarded and whose squad held the front lines with the Seventeenth and who understood with barely a glance and whose silence spoke volumes and whose eyes still looked like stars even out here in the day.
Miri spoke up. "So…"
And all the memory images in his head tumbled away and he faced her.
"…sorry. A lot on my mind…"
She looked him over, took in the shirt that she couldn't recognize (at least not when
he was wearing it) and wondered just a little.
"…I guess tha- …never mind."
If it was true, then it didn't matter, anyway.