Rifiuto: Non Miriena

A/N: Written: 2015, Found: 2018- Licia

As much as Cerise wanted answers, she knew better than to ask, and so simply bid Raven goodnight once they reached the hallway that led to the faculty dorms. Raven smiled softly, bidding her goodnight with a hug, before making her way toward Mika's dorm and knocking softly. After several minutes, Cerise watched as the door opened and Mika poked his head out. Raven rose onto her toes to kiss him, before slipping past him into the room. With a glance and a nod towards her, Mika shut the door softly behind them. Now certain that Raven was safe, she headed back to her own dorm, hoping she could forget the entire night.

Back in Mika's dorm, however, Raven removed her cloak, draping it over the desk chair before climbing into bed. She snuggled up next to Mika, who shifted onto his back. She settled against his chest, curls tumbling down her back, fingers tracing his features softly as one hand slipped beneath the top she wore. "I didn't mean to wake you, my love. I'm sorry."

He sighed, meeting her gaze. "It's okay, Nevermore. I was having trouble sleeping anyway. I can't always stay asleep, especially when you're not in my arms. Call it a bad habit of having you in my arms most of last semester and over the break. I became spoiled."

She giggled, leaning up to kiss him. "You are the furthest from spoiled I've ever met, my husband." He slid a hand into her hair as the kiss deepened, and she reached up, undoing the buttons on her top before sitting up, breaking the kiss. Her hands then moved and began working on undoing the buttons on his shirt; her shirt hung open, hiding her breasts but leaving the valley between them in view. Slowly, Mika's hands left her hair, moving down her sides to slip once more beneath her shirt and caress her skin. Slowly, he tugged the top off her, tossing it away, leaving her in only her pajama bottoms that were sure the join her top on the floor at some point.

Her long black hair tumbled down her shoulders, chest and back, slightly obscuring his view of her breasts. She'd gone to bed the night before with her hair in tight little buns all around her head, held down with bobby pins. He hadn't seen her that morning, mainly because she didn't have classes that day, but he'd heard through the school grapevine that the queen's hair had 'gone crazy curly', and now that he lay beneath her, with his hands caressing the soft hills and valleys of her body, he saw exactly what everyone meant.

Instead of putting her hair up like she normally did, she'd done her hair up in curlers the night before and then removed them before leaving her dorm. The tight black curls bounced about her head, making her appear even more exotic than she already did, what with her pale skin, violet eyes, ink-black hair and 'unusual' features. For despite her pale skin, Raven was considered an oddity in Ever After- not a woman alive within Ever After possessed eyes as unique as hers.

If he were fully honest with himself, his beloved wife fit more the part of Snow White than Apple ever would- from her thick black hair to her porcelain skin, and those blood-red lips she kept coated in a light gloss that she kept licking off out of nervousness or boredom. He knew it was common for the women of Snow White's line to be black-haired and fair-skinned- with the exception of Apple and her mother, who Mika knew for a fact dyed her hair; Ceridwen had shown up for a Parent's Day a couple years back, when Apple was a freshman, not completely altogether there, if the blonde roots appearing at her temples and down the part of her hair seemed to be any indication.

Raven cocked her head, one tight curl falling into her eyes. "What are you thinking, my husband?"

He sighed, trailing his hands along her hips and over her stomach, before trailing a finger down towards the waistband of her pajama bottoms and hooking it within the fabric. "How much I want to get you out of these." She grinned, leaning down to kiss him deeply.

"Then why don't you?" She lifted her hips, giving him a chance to tug the offending garment off her and drop it by the side of the bed, leaving her in only her underwear. She walked her fingers down his chest towards his stomach and lower, before tugging on the hem of his own pajama bottoms. He chuckled, slipping out of them and adding them to the growing pile of clothing on the floor.

Suddenly shy, Raven moved to cover her breasts with her arms, when Mika reached up, gently tugging her hands down. "Don't. Why on earth would you want to hide this exquisite beauty?"

Raven snorted, and with a dip of her head to the side, muttered, "Beauty? You're the only one that thinks so, and only because you're my hus-"

He sat up, sending her shifting into his lap, her legs wrapping loosely around his waist. "I don't think so just because I'm your husband, Nevermore. I'm the only one brave enough to voice it aloud, but I'm not the only one who thinks it. You don't notice, but more than half the male students at this disgusting school can't keep their eyes off you. And more than half the females who attend are jealous because of your beauty. You're the most exquisite person to walk these halls, and they don't know what to do. I can tell you that I've heard more than a few conversations between the boys, and many of them wish to bed you-"

"Because I'm the Queen-"

"Because you're beautiful." He cut her off. "You're beautiful and different and they see it. And I'm sure they're more than a little miffed that I'm your husband." He slid his arms around her waist, meeting her gaze. "Because in this world, marriages happen after high school."

"And in our world, marriages often take place while we're still in school. Present company being the exception, of course." She muttered, blushing. A soft chuckle escaped his lips, and he kissed her quickly.

"It took us six years to find one another again, Nevermore. I don't want you wasting one more minute worrying about what others think. You never have before."

"I have-"

"But only those who matter- your court, your country, your family-"

"You." She smiled softly, sliding her arms around his neck and kissing him deeply. "Do to me what those boys wish they could do, my husband." He hesitated but a moment, and she bit her lip. "I'm on that potion, remember? And we're using protection. There will be no babies right now, no heirs to take away from our year. Not... until... we're... ready." She walked her fingers down his chest before finally sliding her hand down his stomach to hook a finger into the waistband of his undergarments. She tugged gently, and after a moment, he gave in, slipping out of them before tugging hers gently down her hips and off of her. Tossing them aside, he flipped them over, until she lay beneath him, tugging the blankets over them without a second thought. Her laughter filled his ears as he proceeded to kiss every inch of available skin, before doing exactly what every male student at Ever After High wished they could do with her.