#whenthisstoryends

James hadn't even realized he told Elizabeth his birthday. Maybe he let it slip accidentally, or she heard from someone else, though he didn't think she knew a lot of other people he knew. Regardless, she knew somehow.

An offering. After years of war, the two grand houses found themselves locked in endless turmoil, the birth the prince and princess at almost the exact same moment, miles (and worlds) apart gave them a brief window of opportunity. A marriage, to seal the union between the kingdoms and hopefully bring about a new era of peace. 

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“Hey….easy…” Troy leaned forward to try to loosen Elizabeth’s hands from her arms when he saw the blood starting to form on her biceps, giving into the biting pressure of her fingernails. “Doctor Kaleigh’s not a medical doctor. She’s a therapist—she’s going to help you get ready to leave the hospital.” He explained in what he hoped was a gentle voice. “She won’t be like the other doctors. Just…a lot’s changed in the last few years so she’s going to help you get caught up before you get discharged.”

His attention moved toward the machines that she mentioned and then sighed. “You need to keep these machines on until the doctors tell you that it’s safe to take them off. You’re not going to get punished but they’re trying to make sure you’re healthy. We don’t know what all might have happened while you were with Locke—umm…vitamin deficiencies and things like that…” He tried to guess blindly at what the doctors might be looking for. He really did not know…he was a police officer, not a medical expert after all!

Elizabeth though, was not interested in medical experts or what they thought. Right now her life, miserable as it had been, had just been upset and everything was going mad.

Unexpectedly, Elizabeth started asking for Matthew. She asked once and Troy blinked, trying to identify who the man might be. When the young woman asked for her friend again, Troy suddenly remembered who the man was. He was the man who had contacted the police and had helped them identify Elizabeth and get her out. He had been beaten by Locke when the man realized what Matthew had done. Before Locke could kill the young man, the police arrived and arrested him. Then Matthew was transported to the hospital.

Pushing herself through the water toward the surface, Elizabeth sighed deeply when her head breached. She barely had time to close her eyes and try to collect herself before she felt eyes on her. She turned and gasped. “Oh! It’s you! Hello again. What brings you here this late?”

Certainly the princess hadn’t expected to see him again. At least, not so soon.

  It wasn’t like he had planned to end up here. Just another of those nights, when the sound of wild waters calmed him as much as it made him go mad, and Leviathan could not decide whether he wanted to disappear into the blackness of the deepest trench or run as far away from it as possible. Though in the end, of course, it always boiled down to this. A lonely island, jagged stone poking out of the water near an unbreachable coast, where he could be neither man nor snake or anything in between.

  Except the island didn’t turn out to be so lonely after all...

send 🛏️ for my  muse’s reaction to yours crawling into bed with them ( add reverse for my muse crawling into bed with yours ! ) | ahem this is intended for @truerlifebegin always and forever

The fact alone that the staff had tried to keep them separated out of some sense of propriety and “tradition” was foolish, but both Adam and Belle had tried to indulge them in these hours before the wedding. After all, one couldn’t blame the staff for being superstitious after all that had happened.

And while trying, and oh so painful, Adam had succeeded in not interacting with the one person his heart desired during the day. The day had passed slowly, and he had found himself uninterested in his regular meals, antsy and slightly irritable without her by his side.

Then night fell, and he thoroughly believed he might crawl out of his skin.

No one had stopped them all these months, as they had curled up next to one another, finding solace in sleep only with the physical assurance of the others safety. Everyone had turned a blind eye, knowing that their master would go nights without sleep, and Belle would pace the halls after her own nightmares.

That was why, when Adam heard his door creak open and the soft padding of footsteps approach his bed, he didn’t object. Didn’t make some claim that it was bad luck for him to see her.

All he did was wrap his arms around her as she curled up next to him, burying his face in her loose locks - hair that would surely be primped and primed in only a few hours.

starter meme (accepting)

⸺FEN

“Like hell I shouldn’t be here.”

It was damn obvious no one meant for him to find out the truth about the circus–not Locke, not his stupid men, and not even those Fen considered his friends. That last part drove a knife in him. However, the urge to cry and nurse that dented, stupid trust was overcome by anger.

ENDLESS EDITS OF ERIC feat. Elizabeth ( for @whenthisstoryends​ )

Maybe love at first sight isn’t what we think it is. Maybe it’s recognising a soul we loved in a past life and falling in love with them again.

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Elizabeth tilted her head to the side as she sized up the man. Then, softly, she sighed. “I’m sorry you feel that way. I know it isn’t easy to feel like that world is against you. But… But why does that mean that you have to lose hope altogether?”