As stated before, not all of these are happy, not all of them are going to be long and not all are going to be fluff. But I'm a major fan of D/N so the chances of fluff are extreamly high.
Our Distance and That Person
(Daine & Numair) Theme 4
by Kimra
It had happened too long ago, but that didn't mean she couldn't remember it. She had thought nothing off it at first, a crush, an attraction, nothing that normal girls didn't go through in their teens. Then things had started to happen, she started to smile when he flirted with other girls, she started to want him to be happy, she was giving up things for him, striving to make sure no body ruined his moments. His happiness had become more important than her own. That's when she realized it was more then a crush, more then attraction, and more then fleeting. She was in love.
Pure simple, god cursed love. And maybe she cried sometimes when there was nothing she could do, and maybe she broke rules by spying on him on a couple of occasions, but she had a right. Because, she knew, it was all she would ever get.
Like now, sitting by and watching as he charmed another woman, another of his soon to be lovers. She'd probably hear them tonight as well, since their rooms where beside each other in this diplomates home. She would probably hear him making love to this woman throughout the night.
She swallowed at that idea, her throat dry against the images. Not images of him with another woman, no, she never did think of him with others anymore, just her, always her. So her imagination often took her places it shouldn't. Forbiden places she loved and loathed at the same time.
If he ever found out, if anyone ever found out, she would never live it down. To dream about anything so far above you was maddness and she had had enough of that in her life.
She watched the woman, that lucky woman who would spend the night with him, and she wished for the first time in her life that she could be someone else, that she could be that person. It was a hard feeling to dream of being something you weren't, one Daine had little to do with until the creeping attaction to her teacher had set in. Before then she had never questioned her worth, just her luck.
She watched with a hawks eyes, as Numair lent in closer to the woman, as he whispered something into her ear, then closed those eyes and let her imagination work for her. Imagined his lips had come so close to her ear, had whispered those words, words she ahd never heard but could imagine a hundred times over. She could imagine the soft feel of his breath against her check as he pulled away, the warmth she never expected but should have and the look in his eyes that would melt her on the spot. Maybe then he would kiss her, like he did those other women so often, maybe she would feel that soft kiss of his, or maybe one of the hard ones she knew he hid from the public, the kind that she had seem him give his chosen lady only when he thought they where alone.
And then she opened her eyes to reality, checked to be sure no one but Kit had noticed her distracted behavior and let her eyes settle back onto Numair and his conquest. Already he was leading the woman away, secreting her out as if no one could see them. Already he would be leading her to his rooms, or she to his. And already Daine's heart felt the crushing presure of seeing the one you loved leave with someone else.
Kit tugged her sleave, and with a watery smile Daine looked down to her charge. Little clawed hands latched to her sleave and drew the dragonett up to it's hind legs. Large concerned eyes fixed on her.
"It's okay Kit." Daine whispered, "I'm just a little tired."
The dragonett chirped it's concern and Daine smiled with more sincerity picking the bundle of dragon into her arms. Then letting her saddness go, because it would take her no where of use, Daine left through the other exit. Away from her teacher and his happiness, because it didn't matter how much she wanted him to be happy she would always wish for more. But she knew, some distances where not meant to be breached and never would be.
I understand it's short, please don't complain… much. Stuff it, as long as you review I don't care what you say! Review me! Review me! Please please please!