Sparkshipping for Guest!
Karis hates when Tyrell smiles at her. The smile usually means he has something planned, or he's trying to annoy her, or he's already done something stupid, or he's trying to get forgiveness some easy way, or something. It always works as well. She can't resist that big idiot's stupid smile. She's fine with forgiving him or getting him to fess up, or anything else.
What she is never fine with, is how that smile warms her so. She hates that feeling she gets in her chest, and the butterflies take off, when Tyrell flashes her that signature smile and his bright eyes sparkle. He never seems to smile like that to anyone else and it annoys her so, to know he only smiles like that at her. Why he has to annoy her with it is beyond her understanding, why she has to feel weird about is is even further out of her grasp.
Karis is cute and intelligent, and Tyrell loves that. Most of all, he loves when he gets her to laugh or smile. And she always seems to do one of the two whenever he tells her of one of his schemes or he pretends to tease her and she does so back. Her face lights up, her big, beautiful, purple eyes shimmer some celestial light that seems to be reserved for her. Her mouth spreads wide across her face, even if her eyebrows are furrowed in some attempt to keep up appearances. Best of all her cheeks always light up with the cutest red tinge.
He loves seeing that. It is a different side to her that she doesn't often, and reluctantly when she does, show. She is cute. He's almost sure she knows it too. Best of all, she's cutest when she's trying not to be, and that always seems to happen whenever he's around.
When Karis is badly wounded in battle, and out cold for the remainder of the day, Tyrell is devastated. He does not leave her side, even as Amiti and Rief do what they can to heal her. Nothing is the same, seeing her like this. Seeing her fragile, unable to smile. There is something unnerving about the state of forced peace she is in and Tyrell does not like it. So he sits by her side and talks to her through the night, praying that she will be okay.
He apologises, saying he is sorry for not dodging when he told her to. He apologises for making her dive in the way of the monster's claws. He apologises for hurting her. He makes many promises to her throughout the night, promising to always be by her side, to make sure she was never hurt. He promises to always make sure she is happy, something that he has always done, whether she would agree with that or not.
Tyrell is exhausted when morning comes, having been awake for nearly thirty straight hours, at least half of which were spent in Karis' tent.
When her eyes slowly flutter open, and she groans from the obvious discomfort, Tyrell breaks out into a joyous smile.
"Karis, you're-"
Karis groans as she wakes up, pain still very present in her wounded side. As her blurry vision returns to her, the first thing she registers is Tyrell's large smile. Her insides take off immediately, especially when she sees the heavy bags around his eyes. He had been up all night beside her, she wasn't sure how she knew, but she did.
"Karis, you're-"
Karis leant up as quickly as her wounded body would allow and shut him up. Waking up like that, knowing he had been looking after her, seeing that smile, it just made her happy. All negative feelings had vanished. She was just so happy he was there, that he was okay as well. Her last thoughts before her injury had been of him and his safety. Perhaps she had always been fighting some emotional attraction to him, and that's what made her angry at his smile.
But now though… nothing made her happier than to see it.
Guest, I have a question. Did you once request a sparkship in a review to my story "Smile"? Because someone did and I had long meant to do it.
Either way, I hope you like this one.