kissing cousins
Everything is wrong when they come together. They are floating bits of flotsam, pulled out leaves from a weed, chewed up pieces of gum, spat out and stuck to the same abandoned shoe.
The shoe is a lonely table in the Hog's Head, and somehow, sharing the tumbled ruin of the castles where they hid their dreams is enough of a cure to make it a little better.
And even better than that, they are so drunk tonight that they forget to loathe themselves for a minute, and Lucy tells Dom about how lovely her eyes are in the low light.
Dom tells Lucy that when Lucy smiles, a wing gets a star, and Lucy teeters between telling Dom she is too drunk to flirt, and telling Dom that everything about her, from the mussed crown of her fair hair to the darkling shadow beneath her bottom lip is utterly perfect.
And Dom kisses Lucy before she comes to a decision, and tells her everything she needs to hear.