(Note: Written for the 'Celestial' theme, it kind of fits.)

The sunset looked beautiful over the ocean, she had to admit. She'd never seen it before today. Never had the chance to, never had a reason to call a hover and take the trip out all alone. Facing east, all she could see were the colors that resulted from the setting sun. It was breathtaking.

She could hear him approaching before he called out to her.

"Why didn't you comm me?" He asked, standing just behind her on the rocky ledge.

Cinder didn't turn her head, her eyes glued to the horizon. "I wanted to be alone."

He shoved his hands into his pockets, "Oh."

"But since you're already here, sit."

He sighed and sat next to her, staying just out of reach. Kai didn't want to make her nervous by being too close. "Are you okay, Cinder?"

"I don't know." She grimaced, wrapping her right arm around her knees, her left hand against the rock to maintain her balance. "I feel like I'm being stretched in a thousand directions. I don't know where to go from here, Kai."

He reached over and hesitantly wrapped his fingers around hers – the fingers of her cyborg hand. She didn't flinch away and he wondered if she knew he was holding them at all. "Stay."

She looked over at him now, "Stay? Where?"

"Here. The commonwealth. With me." He tried a smile.

There was a hint of laughter in her breath, "What are you saying, Kai?"

He shifted closer to her and let go of her hand, wrapping his arm instead around her and pulling her into him, "Let's… uh, be-be my girlfriend. Live in the palace with me. Or in the city, if you don't want to move that quickly. Stay anywhere you want, as long as it'll mean we can be together. If you want to be."

"You want me to be your girlfriend," she grinned. "How could I say no?"

She drew herself out of his arms and moved to face him. He wrapped his fingers gently around her upper arms and then pulled her in for a kiss, one every bit as warm and gentle as the first one on the Rampion.

There was nothing this time that would pull them apart. No awful news could possibly come out now, so soon after the revolution. There were tensions in some parts of Luna, sure, but nothing that wasn't already under control. He broke the kiss just long enough to pull her onto his lap.

Finally, she rested her head against his chest and he cradled her as they watched the stars appear.

"They're beautiful," said Cinder, her retina display drawing the constellations over her vision.

"You outshine them all."

She said nothing, not wanting to ruin the moment. And it was wonderful, that moment. His words lingered in the air around them and it felt so much like they were the only two in the world, lost in the stars and without any responsibilities.

Cinder craned her head to place a kiss on his jaw, "How did you know I was here?"

He didn't look down at her, his eyes scanning the cosmos, as though he were looking for a specific star among the thousands above them. "I have my ways," Kai told her, one corner of his mouth turning upwards, his ears as pink as the light from the sunset.

"Did you track me?"

"I couldn't find you. You weren't replying to my comms. I was worried."

She felt his grip around her tighten and she realized that the scent of soap had returned. It really did feel like they were the only two in the entire universe. "You know you don't have to worry about me anymore."

"I've always worried about you, Cinder. I don't know what it's like not to."

She smiled, realizing there was no place she'd rather be, the warmth in her chest burning bright.

"Take me home, Kai," whispered Cinder.

"Where's home?"

"Wherever you are."