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Presence
It'd taken him a little while to find her. When he did, it surprised him. Of all the places she could have gone, she chose there. Knees pulled up to her chest, arms tightly locked around them, she stared out at the Stargate with tear-filled eyes.
He slowly made his way over to her. Blue eyes stared down at the slightly trembling form. Long black locks fell across her shoulders and down her back. She'd had those signature pigtails beautifully done up before. Now all that remained was her slightly askew hair clip, hanging from a limp part of her bangs.
Hoping for her to look at him was pointless, he knew. But he'd never been one to give up on hope, at least not where she was concerned. She had become the hope he'd thought he'd lost after so many years of too much war, too much death. She was his hope.
But not in that moment.
Finally, he folded his legs beneath him and sat down directly in her line of sight. The tips of her boots pressed into his shins as he took up the space before her, and her grey-eyed gaze dropped to look at his hands clasped loosely together in his lap.
She continued to stare at his lap even after he moved those hands up towards her. Carefully, he unsnapped her hair clip and placed it in his back pocket for safe keeping. His hand came back to sweep that limp piece of hair behind her ear. And still, she stared at his lap.
Her gaze wasn't important to him right then. As long as he could get across that it was his turn to be her hope, then she could stare away from him from then til all of eternity. Taking her delicate hand in his stronger, coarser one, he leaned forward and brought it to his lips.
He kissed the back of her hand gently, stroking his thumb over her knuckles as he did so. Uncrossing one of his legs, he moved forward a little more and kissed her BDU-covered knee. This one elicited a soft sigh from her otherwise silent lips. One of her legs dropped off to the side, and he knew this was his admittance to venture forward.
One hand gently resting atop her bent knee, he leaned in until his lips brushed against hers in a delicately simple kiss. Resting his forehead against hers, that beautiful steel stare finally found his blue gaze. She could barely hold the look before she let out a desperate sob and fell into him.
Drawing her tight against his chest, he fell back down to the floor and placed a soft kiss to her temple. The fingers of one hand tangled in her hair, while the other hand rubbed soothing paths up and down her back.
"I'm here." He whispered, his voice stronger than he imagined it could be. "I've got you."
A/N: It's a bit short, but that's what I was going for. Short, simple, to the point. IDK where the idea came from, but I got it while walking to bathroom, and immediately jotted it down after coming back from the bathroom. I hope you all enjoyed it, and just to let ya'll know, I have a chapter for Wanted underway, and I'm planning on working on the next chapter for BOtR soon.
Also, my bunnies are just as rabid as ever, despite the location change. I humbly ask -beg- that you review before they kill me...or worse, drive me wonko..er!
