She's just a devil woman

Ronin pays the entrance fee on the way in, telling you you can pay him back with kisses later. You grab his hand, a bit nervous about the place. Looks at you, a little taken off gard by you grabbing his hand so roughly, but he holds it back, rubbing his thumb over the back of your hand.

You hadn't told Ronin of your fear, though you're pretty sure he's aware of it. Which, he is. He’s seen you shake when trying to get off counters after he sets you on them. Not shaking from excitement, but fear. The careful way you slip down off the surface. He knows, but he won't say anything. He'll let you tell him yourself.

He brought you here to play games, and see farm animals, not be tortured on rides. Thus you two play games, him winning a few, and you winning some too. He seems to know the tricks to a few of the games to bypass the cheating way they're made, even teaching you some.

You hear a horse, and your eyes light up, grabbing Ronin and pulling him in the direction of the sound. He allows you to drag him around, just enjoying seeing you so at peace, especially after watching you stress the whole way there. He definitely didn't help, teasing that he was gonna get you on a ride.

The two of you make your way over to the barn with the farm animals. You rushing right over to the pretty horses, while Ronin eyes a goat, smiling at it, only to feel judged by the animal. He decides sticking with you is fine for now.

The animals appear to like you quite a lot, allowing you to pet them, and poke at them. You find a beautiful all black horse, rushing right over to it. You read the name on the stable it's in, “Toothless”. Toothless? Like the dragon?

Ronin notes a white horse in the stable beside this one. The white on is named “Lightfury”. Ah. You get the joke now–not that you didn't get it anyway–that's so cute. You giggle a little, and Ronin gently takes your hand, giving you a smirk.

You wonder for a bit longer, and come across the goat Ronin had felt didn't like him earlier. Ronin watches you walk right up to it and pet it without issue. He glares at the goat, mumbling under his breath, “of course they'd like you..”

He sighs, making his way over to you, and the goat with slight hesitation. Hes not looking to get headbutt by a grumpy goat. The goat responds to Ronin coming closer by making a loud noise. It doesn't behave violently, but the sound scares you a bit. Your eyes water slightly, and you move closer to Ronin.

You look up at him with your watery eyes, and he decides it's time to take you somewhere else for now. He pulls you away gently, hand on your hip. You wave goodbye to the goat, it lets out a small sound, as if saying goodbye to you too.

You snuggle closer to Ronin as he takes you over to the one ride he knows you like. The carousel. It doesn't go too fast, and uts not high up. You're always a bit shaky at first, the horses do move up and down, and the up unsettled you. However, once you get past that, you love it. It's mostly safe, and that makes you happy, and keeps Ronin off edge that you could get hurt.

He wouldn't worry so much about it if you weren't so paranoid about it. You're obviously scared of heights for a reason, he just doesn't know it. He's gonna try to avoid further traumatizing you; maybe it's just a fear you came out the womb with, he doesn't know. Either way, you stressing about it keeps him watching. Its something he wouldn't have payed attention to on his own.

The two of you stand in line for a while, long enough your back is starting to hurt. He hears you huff, trying to hide your pain, but he's not gonna let you just pretend you arent hurting. He rubs your back, “What hurts, baby?”

You look up at him, answering him hesitantly, “Just my back, and hips. All this standing..” You divert your eyes from him, not wanting to see the shift in his face when you admit the problem.

He doesn't say anything, doesn't need to. He knows you still want to go on the ride. You would have just walked away, and taken him with you if you didn't. So what's he do? He picks you up.

You let out a soft squeak at being lifted into his arms suddenly. You give him a look of “can you really hold me for that long?” He just looks back down at you with a smirk, kissing your forehead softly, and standing easily with you cradled in his arms.

You refuse to look down, it's not a far height, but its still your feet off the ground. You hide your face in his shoulder, and he does his best to give you some comfort while holding you. He rubs your thigh with his thumb, and whispers sweet comforting words against your head as you slowly move up in the line.

Finally you make it to the front of the line, and are allowed on the ride. Ronin continues to carry you, setting you down on a horse.

“You wanna share, or you want me on a different one, darlin'?” He questions, a hand still on your hip.

You tell him to do whatever he wants, that you'll be okay. So he gives you a devilish smirk, and climbs on the horse with you. You squawk out a surprised sound, even though you half anticipated he'd do that.

He’s sat behind you, hands around your waist, head on your shoulder. He presses a quick kiss to your cheek, before fully relaxing himself against you. You get pushed forward slightly by his weight, having to lean against the pole the horse is attached to to hold yourself up.

You glare back at him, hitting his thigh lightly. He looks up at you, and hums, “What is it, baby?”

You groan, knowing from his stupid smirk he knows exactly what your problem is.

He continues to tease, pressing a kiss to your shoulder, “That's not an answer. Use your words, darling. Tell the devil what's botherin’ ya.”

You sigh, wishing he weren't always so insistent you tell him what you want when you know damn well he already knows. He’s so annoying. You love him.

“You're hurting my back, asshole.” You grumble out.

Upon you stating he's hurting your back, he moves away quickly. His arms are still around you, but he's sitting upright, holding you more than you holding yourself up. He puts one hand on the pole, the other holding you tightly in place right in front of him.

“Sorry-” he spits out like it's hard for him to say. You blow a little kiss at him to show you're okay.

You feel the ride starting to move, and quickly clamp your hands around the pole, just under Ronin's hand. He feels you shaking, and begins to rub soothing circles into your lower stomach with his thumb.

You lean back into him, trusting his hold mostly. Your hands still lightly clinging to the pole, but allowing yourself to relax with him. He seems satisfied with this, kissing the back of your head, and measuring you, “You're doing good, baby. Good job.”

Usually he'd be teasing right now, but with you, with your fear, he's just happy you arent hyperventilating right now.

Eventually the ride stops. He gets off first, then gently picks you up, helping you down, and setting you on your feet softly. He holds you for a second, making sure you can handle standing before slowly moving his hands away from you as he sees you're good to stand again.

He then takes your hand in his, and finally gets the chance to drag you around. He takes you to get carnival food. Cotton candy, popcorn, candy apples. Anything you want. He doesn't mind getting it for you.

He brings you right over to where all the food stalls are, and pushes you towards them, “Get whatever you want, baby. Your devil can afford it.”

You give him an excited look before running off to get your favourite foods. He follows behind you, listening to you giggle happily, watching you look around for the things you like, feeling you grab his hand, pulling him to what you want.

You're perfect like this, loud, happy, getting what you want. He'd do anything to give you this feeling every day. That look of joy in your eyes, he'll protect that.

After eating your snack, shoving some in his mouth, wanting him to try whatever off snack you found, the sun is starting to set. The carnival lights up. Beautiful shimmering lights contrasting the orange setting in the distance. You look around you in awe at the beauty.

You want a picture of it all, the stars hung in the night sky, the flashy carnival lights, the setting sun. That beautiful man you can't believe you get to say is yours. Maybe a kiss on… the ferriswheel.

You look up at the monstrous circle, spinning slowly at the edge of the park. You look to Ronin, he looks back, his eyes reflecting the harsh lights softly in their beautiful black. You look to him, then the ferriswheel. He gives you a worried look.

“You wanna go on that, baby?” You hear the hesitation in his voice, as if he's not sure of what he's seeing.

You nod, “Yeah- yeah i do- but.. im-” you cut yourself off, almost embarrassed. You know he knows of your fear already, but are you really able to say it out loud?

He notices your hesitation and jumps to comfort you, if you actually want to do this, he doesn't want to stop you because he wanted to be an ass and make you say it. He reaches out for you gently. You stop him. Look him right in the eyes.

“I'm scared of heights. I want to go on the ferriswheel, and get nice pictures. Let's do this.” You speak with a confidence even you weren't expecting.

He gives you a wide smile, teeth showing proudly, “Alright, darlin’. Let's go on a ferriswheel.”

You grab his hand and rush over before the line gets any longer. He follows with excitement. Hes enjoying seeing you confident. You're afraid, it's written all over your face, but he'll be there the whole time, and it seems you'll be able to be there for yourself too this time.

You lean on him while waiting in line, he holds you gently, rubbing your shoulder softly. He looks down at you one more time before they start letting the next group of people on the ride–your group–he looks at you like he's asking just one more time “are you sure?” You look up at him, with a shaky, yet prideful smile. You can do this. He sees it in your eyes. You feel it in your heart–or maybe that's an oncoming heart attack–you've got this.

The two of you finally settled into your seats in the pod you were placed in. Its a faded pink, possibly once red, with yellow accents. You look over to Ronin, him sat across from you, keeping his eyes on yoru every movement. He can see how stiff you are. He reaches a hand out for you to hold. You hesitate momentarily, before taking it, squeezing harshly, fear coursing through you.

You wish you could sit closer together, but then the whole thing would be leaning to one side, and you think that might actually kill you. Ronin seems to feel the same, wishing he could be at your side, holding you through this. Unfortunately there's only seats at either end of the pod, rather than around the whole outside. You can't sit together.

The ferriswheel begins to move and your eyes well with tears, you practically crushing his hand now. He doesn't complain, not even a huff from the pain, he'll be sturdy for you when you're shaking like a leaf in a window storm. He rubs the back of your hand with his thumb, as he always does when trying to comfort you.

“Shh, shh, baby, it's okay. You’re okay. I'll keep you safe.” He tries desperately to reassure you.

You can only produce a pitiful whine of terror in response.

The ferriswheel stops with the two of you at the top. Ronin looks out over the side at gorgeous view. The kind you'd only see in movies.

“Darlin’. Look.” He grabs your attention softly, his free hand holding your cheek gently, turning your head to look at the beautiful view of the carnival.

You look up, eyes filled with tears.. then peace. The view is amazing. Its better than you had imagined. The sun setting, only a sliver of orange far off, hiding in a place you can't see. Sparkling lights from the carnival, all different colours flashing in a show of lights.You look up, the moon, it's a soft crescent, reflecting the suns burning rays, with a cool hue, stars dotting the sky around it, all shimmering lightly.

Fireworks, the show of the night. The begin just as you look out. The bright colours sparking around the sky, loud booms, the simmering sounds as the fireworks eventually fizzle out above you. It's beautiful. Its perfect.

You look over to Ronin, seeing him in the shining lights, he looks nearly heavenly. Devilishly perfect. His eyes meet yours, a gentle smile on his lips. He moves closer to you, closing his eyes softly. You meet him half way, your lips locking in probably the best kiss you've had since that day in purgatory. You feel at peace. In Love. Safe.

This is what the movies mean when they say kissing on a ferris wheen is romantic. When they show their couple finally together, finally whole. This is it. That feeling of passion. Knowing your safe in place you'd usually fear fear, being there with the one you love. This is real. You feel real as your lips press together, tasting the food you had him rry earlier in the day still on his lips.

You pull away slowly, looking him in the eyes. He meets yours, his eyes filled with a blissful love, his hand still holding your face gently. His other hand still on yours, rubbing softly. Hes giving you probably one of the softest smiles you've ever seen on the devil man. Returning it easily in your comfort.

He doesn't need to say it. You know you're loved when you're with him, and you hope he knows he's always loved with you too.

The ride slowly starts to move again, the fireworks coming to a close. You both move back, away from eachother, back into your seats. You're still shaking slightly, but you're happy. It was worth every second with him. Your fingers still interlocked loosely, you can't get the smile off your face. You don't think you want to as you see his eyes still softly looking at you with care.

Finally you're off the ride, Ronin helping you down the stairs off the platform as you're still shaking from the adrenaline. He rubs your lower back, leading you back to the car so he can take you home.

You look up at him with soft eyes, “Can I go back to your place?” You ask, not ready for the night to be over just yet.

He nods, “Of course, darlin’.” He gives you more of a smirking look now, softness still present, “Glad you enjoyed the day, baby. ‘Gonna give you lots more like it.”

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