please don't leave me again
Request: Hello! can you write reuniting with them after months/years due to work/curses/ or anything! (up to you!) with seperate! lilia, jade, azul, floyd, and leona? (atp im just desperate for content for the aforementioned characters badly)Â
Summary: stay a bit longer, itâs been so long! JustâŚdonât leave them againâŚ
Characters: Lillia Vanrouge, Jade Leech, Azul Ashengrotto, Leona KingscholarÂ
A/N: damn a 18 month hiatus is crazy huh⌠Also, I didnât feel like writing a Floyd one because Iâm a tired seniorÂ
Lillia Vanrouge (Curse):Â
Sometimes, when he closes his eyes at night, he sees you smiling at him in a field of flowers. Euphoria. Other times, he sees you lying motionless in his arms, he can still smell the toxin on your lips. He remembers everything so vividly, the way your hair shaped your cold face as he laid your body in your glass tomb. Still, hundreds of years later, he remembers his promise to you.
âFor as long as my heart beats,â he whispered, âI will be restless in bringing you back to me, my love.â
So when he received a letter that you had awoken, he was overcome with emotions. As he flew back to the Valley of Thorns, he was angry at himself for missing the moment as your eyes reopened but so fucking excited to feel his cold skin against your warm self again.Â
They moved you to our old room in the palace, everything was the same but so much time had passed. It had been so long sinceâŚeverything. You canât walk, you can barely talk, and all basic movements feel like challenges. Everybody that you once sat around a table and laughed with was now long dead.Â
You were left to ponder how you could even exist in this new world. Everything you knew was gone, friends, family, andâŚoh no. What became of your dearest, Lillia? Did he go out as a war hero or as a criminal? Did he live toâŚfind someone new and start a family?Â
This was all too much, you canât take the thought. Everything is too much, you just wish that you could close your eyes and go back to the ways things were.Â
The door to your room slammed open and there stood a panting, young man. Why does he look so familiar?Â
âYouâreâŚthisâŚby the Dark- youâre awakeâŚ,â even with his stammers he sounded a lot like someone you once knew. A certain someone who you shared a final memory with.Â
â...Lillia,â your question comes out like a whisper as if it was taboo. Before you knew it Lillia had dropped to his knees in front of you.Â
âYE-yes itâs me, my love,â he corrects his voice just as quickly as it came out. His head dropped on your lap; he wanted to feel your skin on his, âplease, letâs allow me to stay like this for a bitâŚ.âÂ
Jade Leech (Moving Away):
His last memory of you was when you were both seven years old, Jade was clinging to your tail. He was sobbing and screeching for you not to move away. He remembers your parents dragging you away as his parents held him back, your figure slowly fading in with the bubbles. He hasnât seen you since, so imagine his surprise when he receives a letter from his parents saying your family has moved back along with a photo of you.Â
Heâs never been so excited to go home for spring break, youâre backâŚyouâre home. And here he is stuck at school while you're just a dive away. As he tried to focus on his studies, you were now permanently stuck in the back of his head. The photo of you sits on his desk, a beacon of what waits for him after midterms.Â
âYou seem unusually happy, Jade,â Azul says as stands in the doorway watching Jade pack his bag, âis it because theyâre back?âÂ
Jade snickers as the thought of seeing you once again fills his brain, but this meeting wonât be the same. You and him arenât the same people as you were 10 years ago. Heâs so excited to see how youâve blossomed in the time you were away from each other.
Jade couldnât contain his smile when he saw you waiting on the other side of the mirror. He would have been the first to greet you if it wasnât for Floyd jumping you into a surprise hug. Once Floyd was finally off of you, Jade was finally able to speak to you once again.Â
âItâs good to see you again Jade,â you smile at him oh-so softly, âIâve missed you.â Youâre so fucking gorgeous, you look so different than the last time he saw you.Â
âNow, donât you look breathtaking,â Jade smiles, corking his head to the side. You donât even know that your small giggles make his heart do flips.Â
âNow tell me, Jade,â you say, swimming ever so close to him, âwhat have you been up to while I was away? â
Azul Ashengrotto (Different Schools)Â
Azul loves the schoolâs open cultural festival for several reasons. One, the Monstro Lounge does wonderfully during the three days that the event is taking place. Nothing screams profit quite like parents wanting a quiet, relaxing place to lecture their kids about their grades.Â
And that plays into his second reason too well, kids will do anything to get rid of their parents for a few hours. The contracts just keep rolling in for Azul as these kids sell themselves to him just to keep their parents busy and away from them.Â
As the Octavinelle student mans the lounge, Azul is left in his office. His leg bounced anxiously for his third reason to love the school festival to arrive. Parents arenât the only crowd the cultural festival attracts, students from other schools flock to see the wonders that Night Raven College has to offer.Â
Oh, how Azul misses you. He misses the way you smile, the way you shake your hands when you get excited, the way your lipsâŚgod. He misses you so bad. With a huff, Azul brushes his hair out of his face and fixes his glasses to check his phone.Â
âIâm so lost right now, I canât believe your school is this bigâ
âNevermind I found the Portal room, see you soonâ
Is it normal to be sweating this much, it's only been a few months since he last saw you in person, only a few days since you last talked on the phone, and only a few seconds since you last texted. He canât honestly be this nervous to see you again. What happened to cool, suave businessman Azul? The Azul that can smoothly talk his way into the best outcomes for himself. Who is this nervous mess?
âYOOOOO! AZULLLLLL,â the door slams open, with no regard for Azulâs privacy
âFloyd, what have we discussed about knocking before opening the door,â Azul grits through his teeth while fixing his crooked glasses. Floyd gives nothing more than a shrug before leaving the room.Â
âItâs nice to see you again too, Azul,â you pout mischievously, fanning offense that your dearest octo hasnât greeted you.Â
âDonât think Iâve forgotten about you, why donât you close the door so we may have some privacy while weâŚchat.â
Leona Kingscholar (Lost Contact)
Leona is a lot of things; smart, cunning, handsome, regal, but if there's one thing he isn't, it's communicative. This man can not keep a relationship running for the life of him. If you arenât in front of him every day, Leona will just forget you exist. He doesnât think anyone is deserving of constant contact with him.Â
They should be the ones to reach out to him, not the other way around. So when your letters stopped coming in, he wasâŚsurprised. You have always carried the conversation in your guyâs relationship so for you to suddenly stop is out of the normal.Â
Are you angry with him? Have you found someone else more worth your time?
Impossible there is no one more worth your time than the Leona Kingscholar. You must have forgotten to mail your letter in or the post must have lost it. Heâll have Ruggie go check your letter tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that until you come to your senses and mail that damn thing.
One, Two, Three damn weeks and no letter from you at all. As much as Leona thinks that it doesnât affect him, the members can tell heâs irritated. If you ask Ruggie, heâll say heâs seen Leona writing something at his desk and then immediately turning it to dust when he notices Ruggieâs in the room.
Oh, but Ruggie knew everything, he knew that if you stopped writing Leona heâd fall into such disarray. As much as Leon will deny it, Leona adores your letters and keeps them safely stored away in his desk for his eyes only. Ruggieâs been secretly keeping the letter youâve been sending just to see how long it would take for Leonaâs pride to break for you.Â
Three and a half weeks is all it took.Â
Leona catches Ruggie in the early morning (a time Ruggie thought Leona would never be up at) and hands him a neatly wax-sealed letter and simply instructs him to âmake sure this makes it where it needs to go.â He also hands Ruggie a 5,000 Grimm bill and walks away.Â
You bet your sorry ass Ruggie hauled him to the post to deliver the letter.Â
And just like that, communication between you and Leona continued. And if you squint real hard, you can even see the faintest of smiles when he receives a new letter from you.Â
He canât wait for spring break.