Feferi/Eridan. 3rd person perspective. Mature with Troll xenobiology (why did I write this :\ ). Flashbacks/exposition included.

She is honestly beautiful. All happiness and smiles. She is just bursting with energy as she dances and splashes in the waves. Just breathtakingly beautiful.

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He looks so sad. He won't style his hair anymore. The purple streak has faded and it just looks so forlorn.

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Happy is a good look on her. Makes her glow and shine in the sun. Her skirts twirl and swirl with her excitement. She is so pretty when she is happy.

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He is just so dejected. Can barely even get him out of those damn striped hipster pants to get him to the beach. Even now he just sits on the towel under the umbrella so cheerless.

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Gorgeous. Full of life and light. It's like the world can't get any better for her. Can see it in the little actions and big gestures. She loves everyone and everything and it just makes her exquisitely cute.

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It's not good to see him this gloomy and pessimistic. He should be enjoying the new body but instead he's focused on that scar across his waist. He keeps touching it and it makes him look morbid.

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"Eridan!"

He looks up as a shadow falls across his face. He smiles meekly up at her. "Yes, Fef?"

"Give me your hands." How can he deny her anything? Soon he is pulled to his feet and stumbling across the wet sand down to the water. "You can't just sit and mope around. It's a beautiful day at the beach. And you are going to enjoy it with me."

"Sure, Fef." His feet manage to catch up with her tugging just as they reach the waves. The spray of the next crashing wave splashes up around them. The water feels warm against their cool blooded limbs and comfortable against the heat of the sun. Feferi giggles as the water pushes and pulls against her legs. She drags him deeper into the surf until the waves are breaking on his chest. The saltwater tingles on his fins as he tilts his head up to keep his glasses from getting wet. Feferi bounces around him, letting the swells lift and lower her body.

The afternoon sun glitters on the surface of the ocean. The crash of the waves against the sand and shells on the beach is a constant song to background the cries of the seagulls that drifted along the air currents that blew from sea to land. Eridan lets himself relax enough to sway like kelp with the ocean.

He's slightly startled when Feferi suddenly latches herself onto his back with a fit of giggles. The next wave is larger than the others, but Eridan is distracted enough not to push off with the swell so it swamps over the pair with only the tips of their horns breaking through. Eridan emerges sputtering and grabbing his glasses before they are swept away. Feferi covers her mouth to stop a wave of laughter at Eridan's wet hair. The dark strands cling wetly around his face instead of being swept back. He sends her a dark but shallow look before ducking under the next wave, coming out of the back cleanly with much smoother hair. Feferi simply smiles at him.

They continue to bob along with the ocean as the day drifts on, content with each other's company. He admires how at ease she is in the ocean. Even her long hair floats behind her, sleek and trailing, never tangled. She watches as the stress in his face slowly melts away. The rhythm of the ocean reminds them of the good times before the game but they are both glad they don't have the burden of Feferi's lusus even if that was what brought them together.

As the sun starts its descent, burning the sky yellow, orange, and red, Eridan turns to Feferi expectantly, "Do ya want to turn in for the night?"

"Not quite yet..." she replies, playing with a piece of foam left behind.

"Then when? It's goin' to get dark soon."

"After this."

That was all the warning he got before she launches herself into his arms with the aid of a wave. He flounders a bit before managing to wrap his arms around her waist. She giggles as he flushes purple at her close proximity.

"Uh, Fef?"

"Yes, Eridan?" She wraps her arms around his neck and her legs just above his waist.

"What are ya doin'?"

"Nothing. Yet."

"Eh? Then what are you plannin'?"

"To kiss you." He only sputters for a moment before she grants him mercy and follows through with her words. She simultaneously leans in and pulls on his neck towards her until their lips touch. He briefly notes how salty they both taste from the ocean's exposure. When she licks his lips and he lets her deepen the kiss, he revises his thoughts to include that she tastes like saltwater taffy.

The ocean current makes them sway as they stay embraced and lip locked through the sunset. When they finally pull apart for breath they notice that the sky is streaked with the remnants of color trapped on the clouds but otherwise everything has fallen into darkness. Their spot on the beach stands out only because the sand is naturally so light. Eridan kisses Feferi lightly, sweetly before shifting her in his arms to a position that he can carry her out. He only stumbles once when a rough wave catches him against the back of his thighs but Feferi just squeals in delight as he holds onto her tighter.

He only sets her down when her feet can alight on the towel keeping them from getting sandy again. She giggles at his concern seeing as they still have to walk from the towel back to the car. He scowls when she points it out.

"What if I don't want to go back to the car?"

"After all that carping you did while I was dragging you out here, now you don't want to go back?"

"Not yet at least." His expression changed to a sheepish one. "I'm... I'm really enjoyin' hangin' out like this? With ya? An the moon should be risin' soon. An it would be romantic to continue what we were doin' out there..." he trails off hesitantly.

"That sounds really nice, Eridan."

He lets out a relieved sigh and joins her sitting on the towel. The night was definitely cooler without the hot sun beating down on them and it felt better. Being able to be out in the sun was a new experience for the both of them that they enjoyed, but the night was just a bit more comfortable for them. As soon as he is settled he finds himself a lapful of laughing girl. He's quicker at catching onto the moment and soon they are making out again.

The quiet sounds of the surf fill the night as they kiss. Soft sighs escape their lips as they come up for breath every so often. Eridan doesn't want to push whatever this is so he keeps his hands on her back, one at her shoulder blades and one high at her waist. Feferi doesn't have such restrictions and lets her hands roam over the planes of his chest, shoulders, upper arms, and anywhere else she can reach. They enjoy each other's contact.

Feferi leans forward against Eridan's chest until he is forced to lie back. He lets her lead as she straddles his hips. She leans over him, her hair swept over her shoulder to keep it from falling too much into his face. She layers wave after wave across his face, pressing her lips against his chin, cheeks, nose, forehead, eyebrows, lips, jaw line, everywhere. His hands settle at her waist, thumbs absently brushing over the bare skin above her bathing suit bottoms.

She finally pulls away from him to smile down on him. The bright flood of stars twinkle behind her but Eridan doesn't notice. He can't see past her gorgeous smile and loving golden and fuschia eyes. He reaches up and brushes the back of his knuckles across her cheek, making her smile even wider.

"Fef?"

"Hmm?"

"This feels a little... uh... flushed for moirails. Not that I am complainin'," he quickly recovers.

"I don't want to be moirails." Eridan's chest tightened up. "I want to be matesprits, if you don't mind." Eridan let out the breathe he didn't know he was holding.

"I'd never mind that, Fef. I would love to be your matesprit."

"Good," she giggled before she leaned down to close the gap between them once more.

When he was dead, Eridan met other doomed timelines in the dream bubbles. He met a lot of different version of his friends and himself. There were two that caught his attention.

One was from a timeline that the entire group had followed the game to the nth degree. Everyone had completed their lands' quests and everyone had bested their denizen. Everyone even chose to go god tier. Their frog breeding had produced a good specimen. Everything had been done correctly. But then the black king had wiped them all out in a single glub.

The other one was from a timeline that closely followed the alpha timeline until the confrontation with Sollux and Feferi. Instead of going to Feferi to invite her to go with him, he went to Jack first. It was a catastrophic downward spiral from there. As soon as Jack saw him, Eridan was stabbed. Had he been a land dweller instead of an aquatic royal blood, he would have died instantly. Instead he was just grievously injured but mobile enough to follow Jack who followed Eridan's trail back to the meteor. Eridan watched in mute horror as Jack killed those he could find on the meteor. Gamzee, Karkat, and Terezi managed to hide in the vents. But that didn't stop Jack. He just simple destroyed the entire meteor instead.

Eridan was able to watch these doomed memories through the dream bubbles. He practically lived them alongside the two doomed Eridans. Talking with them and others, he realized how it had to have gone down even if he didn't understand the why behind it yet. He had to fail for the alpha session to continue on. Fail at both his charge of his aspect and fail at the betrayal. But that wouldn't stop him from becoming better than that. Death gives you a better perspective on life. Hindsight is twenty twenty and interaction between all of his friends, even if they are just ghosts, gave him plenty of time for improvement. Not that he would have a second chance however. Dead means dead, right?

Feferi kissed down his body as he curled his hands into her thick voluminous hair. He shuddered a little as her lips brushed lightly over his sides. Then she came across his scarred waist. Her fingers slide across the discolored surface.

"I wish she could have killed you in a more pleasant manner. This scar is just ridiculous. I wish she hadn't killed you at all!"

"It's alright, Fef. It had to happen. I was wrong but there was no stoppin' me. And I started the killin' first, I guess. I'm sorry for killin' ya, Fef."

"I know you are."

Pain. Pain. Pain.

He grasped at the air as if that would make it easier to get it into his burning lungs. His mouth gaped open and closed as his body was forced through conflicting signals. The pain in his chest constricted any expanding movement but his lungs burned for air. His arms and legs beat against the ground, desperate to have something, anything happen. He needed to breathe! Suddenly he felt the cool air rush into his lungs only to be expelled moments later with a shrieking scream of pain. Gasping he sucked in another breath to give his body sustenance and a way to communicate his pain. He screamed over and over again as his body slowly and painfully (oh how painfully) his body reawakened to life. His muscles convulsed and he switched from being arched up and taut to being curled up in a defensive position. As his throat got sore, his screams became muted until he was just whimpering and sobbing with still spasms of pain running through his body.

It hurt, oh how it hurt.

She moves back up his body with more kisses and a push on his top of his swimsuit. He freezes as the elastic band passes over his hip bones. His head pounded heavily in his chest under her lips. She giggled lightly as she kisses the side of his neck and felt his cool pulse under his salty skin. She pushes it down to just below the knees before sitting up again. She reaches behind her and undoes the clasp on her top and tosses garment over her head. Eridan's eyes get large as he stares the the bare top of his new matesprit. His jaw works loosely as he feels like he should say something but honestly nothing is coming to mind. She giggles again, bringing a hand up to her face to hide her smile at his loss of words but it doesn't hide the tyrian blush high across her cheeks.

Her hands then go to her own hips and she slips her thumbs under her own waistband.

"Here?" Eridan squeaks. He winces at his own voice and tries again. "We are going to do this here?"

"Well, it is romantic. You said so yourself!"

"I- I guess I did." And with that she lifts herself up enough to remove the bottom half of her suit. He kicked off his at the chance.

"Eridan?" The voice cut barely cut through the haze of pain that clouded his mind. "Guys! In here! I found Eridan!" It sounded close and far away at the same time. The pain radiated from his very existence, numbing all other sensations.

"Eridan..." It was barely a whisper but very close. Then there was a cool sensation at the border of his perception. At his head? His forehead? He could barely focus on it but it was definitely there. It was cool and soothing, pushing the pain away just a little bit. Slow gentle waves lapped against his skin. "Eridan..." The numbing pain faded away and he began to feel sharp pin pricks across his arms and legs. He felt himself shifting, twitching as the cool energy trickled down from his head through his body to his fingertips and toes. He finally became aware of his breathing and took deep calming breaths instead of the frantic panting he must have been doing.

"Good... very good... Eridan." The voice was right there within his reach. He thought that if he could manage to open his eyes then he would find the source of the familiar soothing sounds.

Neither of them were unsheathed at the moment, but at this rate that wouldn't be the case soon. Feferi resettled across his hips, her nook grazing lightly across the bulge. The slick sensations draws a moan from deep within Eridan's throat. He feels the tip start to slip out in with the biological urge to meet the teach heat above him. Feferi leans over to kiss him, her own bone bulge starting to come out as well. She shifts her hips a little as she felt him move. He gasps as contact is made.

Wet heat against wet heat. Moans, gasps, shudders, kisses, movement, and pleasure. Their bodies tangle together naturally, easily, like they are meant to be together. Their moirallegiance was clumsy and awkward compared to their current emotional situation. Their hands grip each other tight as their bulges intertwine. Feferi rolled her hips with delicious friction against him. Their lips press against each other. Their bodies line up. Their bulges slide past each other down to the juncture of their legs. Translucent fluids gleam in the pale moonlight as the tips slide through folds of skin, guided by heat and instinct.

They enter each other almost simultaneously with heavy sighs of pure heaven. Feferi arches up over Eridan, her silhouette breathtaking against the sea of stars and soft reflection off of the rippling ocean surface. Eridan's eyes are wide open to take in as many details of the goddess above him. He murmurs her name into the quiet of the night like something sacred. She moans a soft reply back. Their bodies undulate like the ocean where they once resided. A beautiful rhythm passes between them, bringing each higher and higher. Their voices sing together as pleasure builds up inside of them. They cry out together as their climaxes hit them.

"Eridan... can you hear me? Can you open your eyes for me? Eridan."

His eyes fluttered open. A fuzzy silhouette showed a figure hovering over him against a white ceiling. He blinked several times and the image slowly cleared to reveal a smiling girl with fuchsia goggles and full curly hair.

"Fef..."

"Oh Eridan!" Her smile got even brighter. "You're awake!" She swooped down and wrapped her arms around him. Pain flared up from stiff disuse, but it was a faint echo of the pain he felt from not too long ago. "I'm so glad. We are alive again. They won. They won and we get to live again!"

A second chance, huh? Eridan could work with that.

They lay there panting for a while to recover from the bliss they had just experienced. Feferi grins down at him like an angel. He returns the smile with a soft one of his own. The moon continues to rise up through the sky, coating everything in a silvery light.

"I pity you, Eridan."

"I love you, Feferi."