Abandoned Chapel In France.Photograph Quentin Chabrot

Abandoned Chapel in France. Photograph Quentin Chabrot

The House of Ralph & Russo

The Rose

Pairing: Warden Alistair x Warden Cousland

Link: AO3

Word Count: 1,684

Rating: SFW

Tags: Romance, Falling In Love

An alternative version of the Rose Scene from Alistair’s romance, still the awkward goofball that he is! 

Written for @demonicdivas win all the way back when from my 400 follower giveaway. Sorry for taking so long! 

And I wanted to give a special mention to @datkaraperson (your other blog wouldnt tag >.<) and @nicoleeirin for giving me the prompts idea! Once stopped being afraid of writing Alistair’s humor, this was a fun prompt to write!

It was late at camp, the fire sluggishly burning, most of the logs now embers. Almost everyone had gone to bed, but Elissa gazed pensively at the flames. Alistair could tell she wasn’t really seeing them, though. What was she thinking of? The bloody past or the bleak future? She really didn’t talk about what was worrying her most of the time, but with the way the world was going there plenty of reasons for why she was looking so sad tonight. She usually hid it, and hid it well, but tonight there was a fragile quality about her. A sadness that ached at him.

He glanced around, making sure there was no one to see his fumbling attempts, and moved to her side. “Hey,” Alistair gulped, sitting down next to her.

Elissa blinked, coming back to herself. She turned and smiled halfheartedly, and Alistair gulped as the full force of her gaze landed on him.

Abruptly, he thrust out his hand. “Here, look at this.”

She looked slightly startled at his jerky movements, and he almost snatched his hand back. But Elissa raised a hand, brushing her fingers along soft petals. “A rose?”

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When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her.

Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After (via persephinae)

I like how dolphins breach with such vivacity

whales breach with grace

sharks breach with power

… then fucking manta rays be like

“there goes Billy fulfilling his dreams”