#f!warden

Love is like a sin, my love

For the ones that feel it the most

Fandom: Dragon Age Awakening Pairing: Female Tabris/Nathaniel Howe Characters: Female Tabris, Nathaniel Howe, Sigrun, Velanna, Oghren, Seneschal Varel Rating: Teen Summary: Sometimes, the best moments at Vigil’s Keep are the ones where you laugh with people you trust. Words: 4663 Additional Tags: Gift Fic, Fluff, Post-Sparring, Humor, Teasing, Bathing, Cuddling, Intimacy, Love/Friendship, DAO- Awakening

This fic is a gift for @fiberpunk027 for the @aromanceforthedragonages gift exchange! I saw the Tabris/Nathaniel pairing and couldn't help myself. I hope you enjoy it!

The tea in her cup had gone cold long ago, the leaves bitter on her tongue, the sweetness from the sugar she’d plopped in doing little for the overall taste. Snow still fell steadily outside of the large stained glass windows of her office, Vigil’s Keep covered in a light dusting of white flakes. Tapping the quill against the desk, Zukal Tabris placed her chin in her free hand, eyes focused on how the flames in the hearth flickered and danced, embers smoldering bright against the encroaching darkness.

Sigrun sat on the settee, purposely angled towards the fire, her bare feet propped up where they’d get warm and toasty. A book was open in her lap, a smut novel most likely, her hair pulled from her usual pigtails, the wet strands brushing against her shoulders whenever she shifted her head. She’d been quiet for the last hour, intent on whatever she was reading, the sound of the fire crackling the only noise besides the scratch of Zukal’s quill against vellum.

The evening had passed uneventfully, the quiet grounds around them a calm the wardens had needed after years of fighting darkspawn. Zukal wasn’t given many opportunities for peace, not with how her life often consisted of violence and death. But she’d take what she could get, the time she spent with her friends more valuable to her now than it’d ever been before.

Prepared to turn in for the night, Zukal Tabris tucked the letters into the drawer of her desk, pushing it shut with a subdued click. After the last few weeks of tracking down stray darkspawn in Ferelden, while also sending some of her senior wardens to Kirkwall and other places where rumors of darkspawn and blight came from, she craved a warm bath, maybe a book. It’d been too long since she read solely for the pleasure of reading.

Sigrun glanced over her shoulder at the sound, her dark hair drying in waves, water staining the fabric of her shirt. Blue eyes gazed out of a face covered in tattoos, a woman whose grim life was so at odds with her cheery demeanor that there were times that Zukal forgot Sigrun was a Legionnaire of the Dead. “That time already?”

“For me it is.” Stretching her arms over her head, she felt the muscles in her back stretch pleasantly, much needed from sitting in one place for so long. With a sigh, Zukal stood at her full height, eyes on her dwarven friend, wishing they got more opportunities to sit in quiet like this. “Feel free to stay as long as you’d like. Just don’t forget to lock the door behind you when you leave.”

Sigrun smirked at her, a knowing look in her eyes that Zukal Tabris did not like. While her and Nathaniel Howe’s romantic relationship wasn’t a secret, she didn’t flaunt it in front of the new recruits. It’d do little for her and Nathaniel’s ability to control the wardens if they let a romance get in the way. It wasn’t even supposed to have happened, but when you work close with someone for so long, sometimes these things happened.

“Don’t look at me like that.”

For DA Sapphic Week Day 1: Domestic Moments featuring my Warden Teagan Surana and Leliana set just a little after the Inquisition first makes it to Skyhold.

Teagan leaned against the stone railing, surprised by the warmth it still carried so deep in the mountains. Of course, Skyhold was special. She could feel the magic the ground had carried when she first walked past the gates and into the great castles courtyard.

"Here."

Teagan looked over to see a cup of tea set beside her. "I should be making some for you," she spoke as she looked up to the red-head now standing beside her.

Taking her in, Teagan could tell that Leliana was tired. Her shawl may have cast a shadow on her face, but Teagan could still see the dark circles and lines under her lovers face.

"And you have been traveling for weeks to get here after I told you not to come." Teagan could here the twinge in Leliana's voice, like a missed cord of a song that Teagan knew better than anyone.

"And leave you alone?" She whispered as she set the cup back down, in favor of cupping her lovers face. "I know Josie is here too, even Cassandra, but both are just as bad at overworking themselves as you are. And I want to be here."

"But the cure-"

"We'll find it. I have other wardens. I want this time with you, my love. Please let me be here for you."

Teagan could feel Leliana's body sag some before she finally nodded and leaned into her, blue-eyes closing.

"I have missed you, mon coeur."

"I missed you too," Teagan whispered as she leaned up to kiss Leliana. "Now come on, let's get you something and we can go rest for a bit- and no arguing. Work can wait."

A soft laugh came from Leliana as she nodded. "You are bossy."

Chapters: 8/? Fandom: Dragon Age: Origins Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Female Amell/Female Surana (Dragon Age), Jowan/Lily (Dragon Age) Characters: Female Warden (Dragon Age), Jowan (Dragon Age), Irving (Dragon Age), Greagoir (Dragon Age), Cullen Rutherford, Lily (Dragon Age), Duncan (Dragon Age) Additional Tags: Mage Origin (Dragon Age), Named Amell (Dragon Age), Dragon Age: Origins Quest - Jowan's Intention, Slight Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Gore, Action, Mental Breakdown, Manic Episode, other tags TBA Series: Part 1 of Winter's March Summary: