My Note: OK, nothing much to say here except that I'm sorry. Sorry for taking so long and never updating. Hopefully you'll accept my apology and continue to read my stories. Read and review please.
Skipper stared at Marlene in utter shock, horror and overall disbelief. "Marlene..." The otter's paws shook as she held onto the little diary that had her life permanently written in ink. Skipper reached for the diary, but Marlene snapped out of it and held it back.
"I...I'm sorry..Skipper. It's just..Just..." Marlene held tears back. No way would she cry in front of him. Skipper just blinked with pain. Pain for her. For the life she left behind.
He sat down beside her and put a flipper around her shoulders comfortingly. "Shh...Marlene. It's all okay now. No one here's to take you away. I'm here. You'll be okay. Shh." Marlene buried her face in his soft feathers.
The comforting words that rang in her ears was nothing compared to the other thought that forever lingered in her mind. From the very first day she met Skipper. From the first time Madame Chie told her about true love and what destiny was woven into her.
They remained in this embrace for what seemed like an eternity. Skipper didn't want to let her go. She needed him. Needed him more than anything or anyone else...Didn't she?
Marlene pulled away from Skipper, wiping the tears she tried so desperately to hide. "Umm...I've..I've taken up enough of your time. You should..should go to the others. They're probably...*sniffle*...probably wondering where you..are."
Marlene still had a paw lying against Skipper's chest. She might not have noticed, but he did. It was almost like that little paw was holding him to his spot.
Inside, Marlene was screaming the very opposite of everything she said. I don't ever want you to leave...
Skipper held, tightly, the paw that still clung to him. Marlene looked at his flippers encircling her once again. "Marlene, I'm not going to leave you. Not in your time of need. In fact, I may never." Marlene smiled with new tears of joy and threw herself at him. Literally!
They fell back, with Marlene on top of Skipper. He chuckled. No way would Skipper ever trade this position. Not for the world. Marlene giggled, staring into his eyes. Come to think of it, the ocean really couldn't compare to Skipper's intensely blue eyes.
She then gave him a rather interesting glance and pulled them over. Now Skipper was the one on top and the one in charge. He always was. Skipper blushed at this. He was starting to like this position a little better than the last one.
Marlene could sense the excitement and adrenaline rushing through Skipper's eyes like waves. She felt the same, but knew she couldn't get caught up with the rush. She looked away and dare not look into his eyes again.
Skipper's grin faded. He wasn't real sure what Marlene was up to, but whatever it was he was sure he'd like it.
Marlene, reluctantly, asked Skipper quietly, "Can you...please help me up?" Skipper was really confused by this, maybe he won't like it after all.
"Why, Marlene? What's wrong?" Skipper slid off her and gently brought her to her feet. Marlene kept her eyes cast down. Her mind still relishing the moment that happened mere seconds ago.
"Skipper. I know I want this. I know that I want you, but...But...I don't know." Marlene still didn't look at him, she couldn't.
" If I promised my mother anything, it's one thing. That despite what I was forced to do, I would remain pure and faithful on the inside. Hopefully, on the outside too, but I silently watched that hope dwindle like my lucky star." Skipper listened to every word, every sharpened breath, everything that surrounded him and his thoughts.
Marlene sighed. "I'm sorry, I can't be what you need and want for all eternity. But, please believe me...It's the only thing I'll be wishing for upon that star that's always let me down." Please...Take the place of that little star.
The otter hoped that she hadn't said that aloud. She couldn't tell what was thought anymore. Skipper put a flipper to her chin. "Marlene...Marlene, look at me. Please. You've no idea how badly it hurts me that I can't see the treasure of you being you with me."
"Please, give me the simple pleasure of being able to see stars twinkle all night whether or no they've kept their promise. I know that I will not be those simple stars but Ill try to shine as bright. But nothing compares to the light in your eyes." Marlene kept her eyes there on his, never to leave again.
"Believe me there's nothing I want more to see. I know you've hurt but I'm here to heal, please believe me I'm not here to kill. I'm here to dream, to bring you to life, to be every song on your guitar. I'll give everything up just to be the one you have forever." If this were a song, she'd play it on and on, never removing the emotion in his words.
"I never want us to have a last kiss. I want us to be the beginning to your miserable end. Though its not miserable its only amazing, indescribable strength that keeps you going, keeps you on my mind and I'll never spend another night without you here in my eyes forever. So, please don't leave me to myself. My thoughts only haunt me they're not what I care for. You are the one." Marlene's tears returned her eyes, as he stopped to wonder if he was the cause.
She stared at him for what seemed like forever, never giving up on such an endeavor. No longer could she ignore the pained love in his eyes. After his monologue, all Marlene could think was how she had gotten by without his strength.
And she knew what Madame Chie said...was true. If only she had told him that last part written in ink. She couldn't bring herself to it, there was nothing that he could do. She didn't want him tangled in the mess of a life that she called her own, she'd had enough strife.
What if that's what he wanted? To be there with her? To be her soldier? To deal with the worst with her? Marlene continued to cry as she stared in his eyes, unsure of what happened next, but understood why he took one...more...step. Why he had chosen to kiss...her...lips.
Now she knew the answer, she couldn't hold back, she let herself wonder, what she possibly lacked anymore. Her life was perfect, she had what she wanted, but maybe that want was a need more than ever before.
Skipper led her inside her cave it was noon, but he didn't care because it wouldn't be over soon. All he wanted was her. He doesn't want someone else to take his place in her heart. He wanted the deal to be equally sealed with an everlasting kiss. One that can't end, no matter how hard they try, to give up they never will it means too much to be so together.
Marlene granted her soldier this one everlasting wish of his. It was one of her own wished long ago, dreamt of afar, she never thought it would be him until she saw those eyes. Now that she had him, what would they do to keep it together, to keep it from falling apart, under the pressure like a boulder on their hearts. No one could move them. No one could start.
"Skipper..."She said between breathes as they kissed. He replied in his sweetest voice, "Yes. Yes, Marlene, tell me what it is that you wish. I'll be your next star to count on to wish on to dream on, the one here never to let you down." She stared unbelieving that someone had come to love so endearingly. So devotional. Compassionately.
"Just a kiss...Let's take it slow. If we give it time, it surely will grow. Just a kiss. Hold back please I know how it feels to never want to let go, but you must. Because I don't more than a kiss." And so the war began within Skipper.
"You're every wish is my command. My mission. My love." Skipper closed his eyes and kissed her sweetly. This had never been so intimate, nor had felt so right with anyone else before in his lifetime.
When Marlene broke the kiss, reluctantly, she spoke to him, "Now, go back to the others. Don't tell them about us. Not yet." Skipper kissed her cheek and left it at that. "Affirmative. Mission: Forbidden Love is officially too classified for anyone, but you and me. I love you. Until next we meet, believe me we will."
Marlene smiled as he waddled away. She pulled out her diary and wrote abut everything up to this point. She even mentioned the every detail of that...sudden...kiss. "His name will forever be on my heart, with every kiss..He stows away from me..My prince. The real one."
With that written in her diary as her last entry, she looked at the time where Madame Chie had told her about the love she wondered about.
The last part she left out. She wasn't real sure about him and the description until she looked back. Her eyes roamed the page. Slowly reading each word carefully, she was sure he fit the description like no one before.
"You will, Marlene. You will find a man, along your journey, who will want to protect you more than anything. At first, he will not reveal it to you. For he will be a very stubborn, very prideful man, but not just a man. A bird. A penguin, in fact. Trust me, he won't give off too much, but you will change his life as he will change yours. Your marriage will be that of a lifetime. It will be the ultimate expression and display of true love."
My Note: Sooooo? Was it everything you pictured? Review please!