a/n dedicated to Vicky [incandescent dreams] because it's Christmas and she loves these two =]
I tried doing something a little different this time; let me know if it actually works! ;)
JamesLily ;; glimmer
The city lights glimmer hotly on the water, a few blinking out as they are eclipsed by a pair of shadows moving across the bridge. The photographer moves his camera in irritation, adjusting it to peer around the figures so he can get the picture he came for and go home. It's Christmas, and his family is waiting for him – a wife and a son and a newborn baby girl with blue eyes that shimmer like stardust.
He looks up at the bridge, the figures parting just as his gaze locks on them, the tall of the two bending down and kneeling on the worn surface of the old bridge. The photographer rolls his eyes. Yet another photograph ruined by yet another proposal between two people who find the Seine the most romantic place to get engaged, and are likely to divorce within a year of their marriage.
Snatches of conversation drift across the water to him, though he pays little attention. Capturing the last photograph for his collection is far more important than a pair of lovers who are probably not even French, and completely cliche for proposing on Christmas Eve.
"-and I know you wanted to wait-"
"James..."
"-marry me." Evidently the woman acquiesces, because the photographer catches sight of her striking red hair against the softly lit landscape as she flies into the man's arms. Light glints off something; their clothing, perhaps, or a watch? Glasses maybe, he wonders, then berates himself for getting caught up in another couple's fairytale.
He sighs. Clearly he won't be getting that picture tonight. Packing up his camera, he looks up again, finding his eyes strangely drawn to the pair on the bridge. They are entwined together, and as he watches, seem to disappear into thin air, leaving behind no trace of being there apart from a soft pop that reaches his ears. He shakes his head at the impossibility, and walks away. The glittering lights on the water must be playing tricks on his mind tonight.
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