Title: here we are, we've just begun
Pairing: Edward/Mike
Prompt: #19: a perk of vampirism
Word Count: 256 words
here we are, we've just begun
Five years is a long time in human years. Or at least that's what everyone keeps telling them – they always seem surprised to hear that the handsome young couple met in high school and have been together since then. Of course, for vampires, five years is hardly anything when they have a stretch of centuries, potentially, before them.
Mike is still adjusting to life as a vampire, something Edward feels almost constant guilt for, but he always assures him that he's happy to be with him. It's never enough to completely assuage how Edward feels, but Mike figures that after a couple of decades or so, he'll eventually win him over.
Curling up next to each other on sunny days, with the sun streaming in through a crack in the curtains is peaceful and beautiful; spending all that time memorizing and relearning all of what makes up the other is an experience that few could ever understand or experience. For Mike, it's always something new, each day and night is something unfamiliar and wondrous.
Edward jokes that he's like a newborn child, the way he looks at everything and takes it all in with his new sight and senses. He thinks it's sweet. Mike just calls him a perverted old man. They're quite the pair.
People constantly say that they act a bit like an old married couple, with how close they are and wonder how that's possible when they're so young. None of them will ever know how close to the truth that is.
FIN.