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WARNING: Not very descriptive mature content. You've been warned.

Chapter 14 – True Love

After a whole day of storytelling, the little family sat around a campfire outside Terra's shack. Sora was still getting used to the fact that Terra was his true father and Naminé his twin, half-sister, and cousin at the same time, but he wasn't yelling anymore.

They spent most of their dinnertime telling stories about their lives. Aqua informed Terra of how miserable Xehanort made her even when she wasn't near him. Terra said he was only happy when he was in the water now, as it reminded him of his dear love.

Sora told Terra about Riku, training with the Keyblade, how Ventus was now bugging him about Striker's health, to which his father only agreed with Ven. He also told him about the first time he ever summoned his Keyblade. He'd sworn Master Eraqus was following him around the whole time.

Aqua confessed she'd been informed by Master Eraqus about his actions concerning his spying on Sora. They'd been because Eraqus had suspected the boy could wield a Keyblade due to being the son of two Keyblade wielders.

He'd been right.

Terra was open to hearing about his niece, Naminé. She told him that while Xehanort spied on Sora, for reasons they now understood, and tried to convince Aqua to love him, he barely paid her any attention. Even though he was now trying, it still wasn't much. The Princess said it was probably only because her mother had requested it.

Terra agreed with her on this. Xehanort cared about nobody but himself. The very reason he went to extreme measures to marry a girl whom he knew loved someone else.

Aqua even told Terra about her habit of tearing roses apart. He regarded this as strange until she revealed it was because she used to love it when he would give her roses. But she didn't want to see them after he left so she destroyed them instead.

She'd started doing this because Xehanort had tried to give her flowers the day Terra left. His attempts to be nice didn't do anything to appease her.

Terra told them the only things he'd done out in the forest were train and ride Gaia. He also spent many nights crying himself to sleep over his loss of Aqua.

He spent many ways trying to be as close as possible to Aqua. He would go swimming in the river everyday. His beloved's name meant 'water', named for her beautiful hair and eyes. The running water was soothing, it made him feel like she was right there.

As they talked, Terra's clever mind formed a clear plan. One that would unite him with Aqua forever.

Karma was about to come back and bite Xehanort where he wouldn't like it.

Sora fell asleep by the fire, his head leaning on a log. Naminé curled up on the ground wrapped in a blanket-cocoon. The only ones left awake were Terra and Aqua, who were lying together wrapped in one blanket with the water lady resting her head on her earth knight's shoulder.

"One from each of us…" Terra mused, staring at his lover's children. "Weird."

"Yeah," Aqua said glumly. "I'm so sorry Naminé has to be his and not yours, Terra."

"It's alright. She's fine. And nothing like my brother," Terra replied. "I like Naminé. She's a good sister for Sora."

"His twin… yet his half-sister… and his cousin… What are the odds?"

Both Terra and Aqua laughed at that, not loud enough to wake the twins up, but still loud enough for Sora to loll his head over to the side.

"All these years, Aqua. I never stopped loving you. I thought of you everyday, praying that you were thinking of me too." Terra planted a kiss on her forehead.

"You never left my thoughts, Terra. I cried myself to sleep at night thinking of you, wishing you'd come back and get me."

"I wanted to. But Xehanort would've killed me and any chance of us being reunited. I figured the only way would be to hide and keep an ear open for news from Radiant Garden. If anything had happened to Xehanort, I would've returned to you immediately."

"You probably heard all the weird rumors about me, then," Aqua mused. "That I hated him, never wanted to be near him, or even touch him?"

"I heard everything," Terra laughed. "I didn't know what to think. Did you still love me or just hate my brother?"

"What did you really think it was?"

"That you were waiting for me to come back. That you still loved me."

"It's a bit of both. Mostly that I love you."

"I'm glad." Terra stroked his hand down Aqua's arm. "Because I love you too."

She smiled and sat up straighter as he leaned down to kiss her. Aqua caressed his face as he slid his hands to her back and caressed her body.

"Aqua…"

"Hmm?"

"I know that… you had to…"

Aqua turned her gaze to her stomach, which Terra happened to be stroking.

"It's the law, Terra. The marriage—" She was silenced by Terra kissing her again.

"I know. And I don't blame you." He paused, turning his cobalt gaze to her watery orbs. "But I intend to make you mine again whether he likes it or not."

Aqua giggled. "I was never his." She stroked her lover's face again, feeling the traces of heat in her fingers' wake. "I was always yours. And yours alone."

"Good," Terra murmured, flashing her a cocky, yet dashing, smirk.

"Let's take Sora and Naminé inside before you try anything."

Terra smirked. "Very well, my Aqua."

The earth knight picked Sora up and went over to nudge his house's door open with his foot. Aqua gathered up Naminé and her blanket and followed her lover. They set the twins on the couches, Naminé curled up even tighter in her cocoon as she settled in.

"Come here," Terra told Aqua. He was standing by the door to his room with his hand held out to her. She strode over and took it as Terra pulled her inside, shutting the door behind them.

Later, Terra and Aqua lay under the blankets in his bed, bare to each other and warm only thanks to the other's body heat. Terra stroked Aqua's long blue tresses, letting himself absorb every bit of her that he'd missed for fifteen long years. His other arm was wrapped around her, keeping her safe in his embrace.

Aqua had her face pressed into her lover's neck, her hand stroked his cheek soothingly, relaxing them both. She leaned up and kissed him sweetly.

"I love you," she whispered.

"And I, you," he replied, smiling into her beautiful oceanic eyes. His cobalt ones softened from their normally hard gaze as he pulled her closer to him.

He pressed himself against her, she pulled him tight against her body in response, never wanting to let go.

"There's something I need to talk to you about, Aqua."

"Hmm?"

"I want you so badly…"

The water lady caressed her earth knight's face. "And I'm yours. So…"

"But you aren't free to be mine… You're still married to Xehanort."

"I don't care. I'll never go back. I want to stay here with you, Terra…"

He rolled on top of her. "I know." He leaned down and kissed her left cheek. "But Xehanort is bound to have noticed you, Sora, and Naminé aren't home by now."

Aqua realized what Terra meant. "He'll come looking."

Terra nodded and kissed her other cheek before gently cupping it. He bent down to her left ear.

"I have a plan," he whispered. "I came up with it while we were talking at breakfast. If it succeeds, you and I will be free of Xehanort forever. I'll fully take you back."

Aqua smiled up at him and kissed him. "Thank you…" she whispered.

Without bothering to explain further, Terra pushed himself into his lover. She arched her back at the sensation and wrapped her arms around her earth knight's neck. He kissed her neck in response.

Once they were done, Terra and Aqua lay in each other's embraces tiredly, letting peaceful sleep overtake them.

Terra was so glad Aqua was back with him. All his patience, waiting, and prayers had paid off. She'd been brought back to him by his own son and his brother's daughter, who favored her mother being happy rather than staying married to someone she didn't love and suffering.

He would tell her, Sora, and Naminé his plan in the morning. For now, he was content to sleep with Aqua.

She was finally his again.

Oh… *shrugs* Couldn't resist it. But like in 'Guided by the Heart', I don't do descriptive lemon. Next chapter is about vengeance!

And yes, I believe in the concepts of Karma. It loves to work its power. So, do good things if you want good stuff to happen!