Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24530992-20140813185952/@comment-5583506-20140815023123

(*Grabs all the kudos and bows with grace before Zoordovahsil.)

When the morning came Mara found herself facing an unbelievably uncomfortable silence with Varg. They were sitting at a table in the inn and just looked at each other, waiting for the other to break the silence.

"I have..."

"I was just..." Varg interrupted Mara's sentence. "Sorry, go ahead."

"No, you go ahead."

"You said something first, so I will be listening to you."

Mara sighed. "I have acted like such a bitch to you, Varg, and I am sorry for that."

"Don't be", he said. "People who acts that way comes as natural to me. Comes with the job. Came with the job."

She played with her fingers nervously. "About that kiss..."

He raised an eyebrow. "What about it?"

"Did you... like it?"

He swallowed hard. "It was... nice, I guess. What else do you want to know?"

She blushed. "You know, Varg... last night when I was with Sidion, I tried to... well, imagine you in his place."

It suddenly became unbearably warm in the inn. ''Can't these assholes upon up a window or something? ''he thought. "Oh?"

She leaned in over the table and stroke his knuckles. "I was faced with an obstacle the other night. A mental obstacle brought upon myself by myself. And I also unknowingly fullfilled a part of the prophecy Ulvena had told me about. She told me that I should be careful not to let the 'black beast near my heart', because he would then deceive me. The beast was you Varg and you left me again, but this time it was because of me. I deceived myself by letting you near my heart."

Varg looked at her curiously and tried to piece together what she said, word for word.

"I didn't want to believe it. I didn't even know when it all began. But somehow I grew feelings for you, Varg. Feelings I didn't want to admit because... you were being you, and I was afraid that if I told you the truth you would consider me as nothing more than a good friend and I would have to continue to suffer without a single soul who loves me for who I am."

Varg took her hand in his own when he saw that she was close to tears. "What's this all about, Mara?" he asked softly. "Is this the 'obstacle' you are talking about?"

She nodded and sniffed. "Last night I acted that way to you in my drunken rage was because of my denial of my own feelings for you. And by doing so I made you deceive me and leave in the hands of 'the man in the blue robes'. Another part of the prophecy had been fullfilled."

She wiped her tears from her eyes on her sleeve. "Don't you get it, you big dumb wolf?! I love you!"

He looked a bit astonished. "Love?"

She nodded. "And don't you dare tell me that we can be friends. It won't work. It would utterly crush me."

"But... but I am so much older than you", he said and scratched away some fleas from behind his ear. "I am 34 and you aren't even twenty years by Shor!"

"Since when does that matter? I love you. I don't deny it. I won't deny it. Don't you dare deny that you love me back, you hear?"

He shook his head. "I... don't deny it." He noticed how Mara observed him in under a strained silence. "The fact is that when we first met I found that you were almost as obnoxious as you were beautiful. You were somewhat of an outsider in the group, which suited me just fine since I myself don't get along with people all that well. But the first thing I remembered about you was your unique, seductive scent. I had recently shapeshifted and therefore my sense of smelling was over the roof, and I found your scent to be the most attractive scent my nose had ever come across. To be honest you almost drove me crazy sometimes just be being near you."

He gave her a sad smile. "It may not always have showed back then. But I really cared about you. I wanted to protect you. Call it instinct or sense of law and order, but I wanted to keep you safe from the harms of the world. I found you to be quite intelligent and curious. And I felt sorry for your loneliness and the way you had been treated in the past, because it reminded me of myself. And then it occurred to me that the two of us are really nothing more than the fragments of a broken soul that were meant to be reunited at some point after gathering to much dust and nicks." He fell silent. "I love you, Mara. And I will continue to love you for as long as you will have me around."

Mara looked as if she all of a sudden had seen the light at the of the tunnel and nearly leapt over the table and threw her arms around the son of Sithis and kissed him long and passionately. His stubble felt prickly, but she didn't care about the pain. "My beloved wolf!" she purred and kissed him again. "By the Gods, I am so happy!"

He kissed her back before looking at her and stroking her long hair behind her neck "What do you say about you and me having ourselves a group of silly half-bloods to find?"

She smiled, nodded and was once again consumed by his loving embrace. They ignored all the cheering and the naughty advices from all the other customers of the inn who were witnesses of the love they expressed for each other.

I think I am finally truly happy, Mara thought and closed her eyes as her lips met Varg's.