Bound for trouble from the start
I've been walking through this old world in the dark
He is blind to her doubt, to the worry that lingers just beyond her amber gaze. He is riding on cloud nine, his high was beyond the heavens. He never wants to come down. The shell rolls in his paws, awkward and foreign feelings but pleasant. Just as he feels on the inside, facing this new role as a father. Her muzzle buries beneath his thick fur, teeth seeking flesh and he looks to her with pure glee. ”You think… two?” He looks back to his fossil as her breath warms his cheek, the thought never crossing his mind. That there could possibly be two.
He suppresses the grin that threatens to expose his gentle mocking. Instead he drops the shell and with a sigh, shifts back to himself. A brazen look on his face as his mouth finds hers, trailing lips along the soft fur of her neck only to stop at her withers and pluck the skin there gently. For a moment he briefly thinks of another who had once sought to steal his tension in such a way. But Spark was only a friend and no line had ever been crossed even when he was grasping for air, drowning in his pain from the Head of War.
The memory is fleeting, escaping from him as quickly as it had come. He doesn’t like to dwell on those dark days, when he was without her. Now they were a family, connected in blood and flesh forever with the child (or children) growing within her. His joy subsides as he finally notices the tired lines around her face, the way her body sags. ”I think you have excellent taste in names.” He quietly huffs into the thickness of her mane. ”You are tired.” He was aware of her sleepless nights, the way she tossed and turned beside him. Chalking it up to pregnancy, not thinking it could be anything else.
Gently, he pulls her down to the warm sand. To have her off her feet as his muzzle soothingly rubs against her enlarged barrel in soft gentle strokes, teeth nibbling lightly with affection. ”A boy and a girl huh?” He ponders a loud, gazing at her extended side as if he could see the secrets within. ”Well if it’s a girl……Something fun. Joplin?” Unique, eccentric. ”Since you’re so good with boy names..” A gentle tease as he reaches for her, pulling her into his embrace. Never once thinking that this may be the best it will ever get.
Ledger