Cute Spiritshipping fluff requested by HarmonyBenderFreak!
Matthew loves moments like these. He always relishes them. It's always so quiet and peaceful and it gives him time to fully appreciate the beautiful woman that is his wife. Currently, she's sleeping against him, purring in her sleep. Matthew still doesn't know how he was so lucky to find a woman like Sveta who loved him so, what he had done to deserve getting to be with someone like her.
He gently strokes her lavender fur, always loving the feeling of the fur on his fingers, and he knew how Sveta loves it too. He places a gentle kiss on her forehead. His hand eventually finds it way to her belly, which had grown considerably in the last few months. He gently caressed his wife, so happy to know that they had created a life, and in but a few months he would be holding it in his arms. He teared up from imagining his baby's first words, it's first steps, it's first Full Moon. Smiling at all the wonderful thoughts of being a father, he looks at his wife's sleeping face, silently thanking her.
He winds up thinking back on their quest as he admires her. He thought of how they first met in the Teppe Ruins, how he had chased her and she had guided them forward. How she offered her help to allow them to reach Morgal, and how quickly she had disappeared from their lives afterward.
Matthew remembered what he felt when she left. Back then, he wasn't sure why. They hadn't even travelled together for more than an hour or two, but he knows now that he missed her presence. He remembered the joy that had filled him when they reunited, and the pain when he realised he had helped doom her home and its people. A pain only made worse when he saw her tears that first night on Eoleo's ship as they fled.
Over the weeks together, he had grown closer and closer to the girl, never treating her as anything different. To him, she was a friend and great companion, and he could see how happy that made her. All the others treated her with respect or curiosity for her station and race, Matthew never did.
Then, they had shared souls, within an instant they were more in touch with one another than anyone could ever be. They knew everything about the other. It was not like Sveta's Spirit Sense, which they had used and shared several times over the course of their journey. That only offered thoughts, musings of the moment, but the joining, it offered everything at once. Every thought, every image, every feeling. All of it together.
Though, that is not to say that is why he felt the need to be with her. He had felt a deep love for her before that moment, it was just he knew she shared the same feelings then. It made it easier to talk about in a way, yet, was a difficult subject to bring up.
He was glad he did.
Because he did not want to imagine a world where he had not. A world where he was not lying in bed, with the beautiful and amazing woman cuddling next to him. A world where they had not married. A world where they had never made love.
He did not want to imagine a world where she was not currently carrying his child.
Because he loves her.
With that thought, Matthew cuddles closer to his wife, and slips into a peaceful slumber, no doubt filled with images of his wife, his unborn child, and him enjoying their lives together.
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