It's the way Shanks looks at you after a long, almost desperate love making session - when you're covered in sweat, breathing heavily and dizzy from the pleasure, unable to formulate even a single thought other than his name - that it slowly sinks in, just like it does every time, that you were truly his. There was no defeated silence behind his gaze, no tempered measure other than adoration for you and you alone as his hand slowly slides up to gather your face in his grasp ; gentle, loving and somehow demanding for your attention to be on him, always on him, only on him.
You'd wonder in the back of your mind if it was just a phase, if you were just a phase, and yet every single time he claimed you, those thoughts always ran in fear, hiding in dark corners to linger until the day they never came back, never whispered how unlovable you were or how undesirable you were -
Because Shanks always made sure to remind you that you were precious, an admiration and his treasure, for now and always.
β‘ just a lil treat for you av bby, shanks is obsessed with you so don't ever forget that π€π€π€πππππ
MANDIE I'M
I'VE BEEN STANDING ON MY DESK AND PACING AND CRYING I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAAAAAAAAY this is so beautiful and tender and gorgeous and LITERALLY perfect I!!!!
'There was no defeated silence behind his gaze, no tempered measure other than adoration for you and you alone as his hand slowly slides up to gather your face in his grasp' <- MANDIEEEEEEE he's not sad and nobody has to be sad and I just!!! idek what to do I'm resisting the urge to line by line and just cry at everything, he!!!
It's a good thing too bc I'm obsessed with him and I just. Man I love you so many, I don't know what possessed you to do something so lovely and beautiful and kind but I appreciate it and you so dearly, I'm going to be holding this next to my heart for the next 7-10 business years frrrrr
(you know the funny timing part of this is that my birthday is tomorrow, so this is like. a very wonderful early birthday present!!)
