Senses
Chlex
A/N: For nifraidril's first line meme…and her newly found interest in SV het!
He didn't see it coming, and maybe that's why it worked so well.
Their relationship seeped into his life so effortlessly; clandestine meetings, testimonies and safe houses absorbed by six hundred thread-count sheets. A détente formed by mutual necessity that became the most sensuously pleasing of alliances.
But now as he looks over her pale form, almost childlike against the softness of his four-poster, he doesn't see a wall of tabloid articles or smell the burn of timber and sheetrock that marked an empty grave.
He hears her soft breathing, feels her silken skin…
…and can see the future again.