Can I give you one last hug before you leave my life and go to the moon again?
-When they know that their commitment is full of threats and prejudices towards cinder
This is like the small snippet of the full story I have posted here, can be read independently but I have written it as a continuation for this plotline: Part 1, Part 2.
thank you for the ask, I have tried to make it as angsty as possible, hope you like it! <3
A/N: It's a Selene x Kai fic.
“Kai,” he heard the familiar sound of her, as she stood at the door, dressed in a silk robe that highlighted her pale skin.
He hums in reply, mind hazy from the way the dress hugged her, and the overworked hour he found himself in, “-come to bed.”
“10 minutes, I have like 2 documents to sign—” he argues, but she’s quick to counter him, “—you said that an hour ago.”
Sighing, he looks at her, breathtakingly beautiful, with her hair messy from sleep, eyes lidded with the urge to be back into the warm duvet, and feels lucky to have her here. With him.
“Very well,” he says, rising from the table, as he walks towards her. However, she seems to go farther away, as his feet push one before the other. He rubs the sleep from his eyes, tells her that this is not funny, but she stares back, unaware of the distance that he’s unable to cross. Eyes looking at him patiently, until he grows frustrated and screams, asking her to walk to him.
She smiles, something that doesn’t reach her eyes, and steps behind, all signs of sleep vanished from her face and asks, “Will we know in the future that we still love each other?”
He stares, questioning why she’s being so cryptic, tries to reach for her, but she’s still far away, yet so close that it makes him lose his sanity, “Selene, is this your power?”
She shakes her head and continues, “Or will it be the distance that drove us apart, again?”
He’s grabbing at her now, but it feels like he’s rooted to the floor, not moving an inch, furiously trying to break free from whatever hold he had. Selene, however, is moving, reaching for her things from his room, as she packs for something unknown.
He’s demanding that she look at him, say something, but her back remains to her, as she continues to do the needful, all while Kai cries for her to speak with him. She glances back only when she’s satisfied that her bag is packed, sitting on the suitcase, knees drawn to her chest, giving him the full attention, and it angers him, as he asks, “What now? I give you one last hug before you leave my life and go to the moon again? Some goodbye, Selene?”
She doesn’t reply, instead staring at him, her body going paler under the dim light, until it’s no longer there, but before that, she whispers, “I will always keep loving you.”
He wakes up from the dream, tremors chilling him to the core, heart racing as he tries to get away with the image of his wife disappearing, slowly. Metaphorically.
Those last words of hers, similar to the day she’d actually left, haunted him, coming back in daydreams and nightmares, but never through her. He wondered if they would ever be said to him.
