12-04-2017, 02:35 AM
Reagan
I want you to know that I'm all yours; you and me, we're the same force.
“Away. Healing. It feels nice. To be whole again.”
She sighs, pulling closer to the body she knows so well. She rests against him contentedly, happily, breathing in his scent. There was something to be said for being in love with your best friend… To watch him with a daughter you both share. She was familiar with him in ways she had never before been familiar with anyone else. To be friends with someone that she had known in such an intimate way. It was freeing.
She looked out at the sea, not feeling a need to look into his eyes. Indeed, she had no need. She knew him by the beat of his heart. They both had a love of the waves, and it was a quiet moment that they both shared. Again, she was content. “I never imagined I could have been happy anywhere other than Taiga. But I have found my soul again. And I don’t think I have to tell you that you are largely responsible for that.”
Too much time has passed—too much water under the bridge. They were too old to be anything less than honest. And Reagan, in all her powerful glory, was aware that she tread in dangerous territory.
For once in her life, she did not care.
She wanted exactly one thing…. And it would not kill her if she never got it.
She would learn to be content with life just as it was.
Better to have him in her life as his friend and hurt… to not have him at all. At the end of the day, she still had her memories. They still had their daughter.
The summer months were always beautiful here in Tephra. The rich volcanic soil gave way to all manner of exotic plants, flowers, and fruits, and the air smelled intoxicating. It was a balm to her soul. It was the largest healing part of her that could put aside her past, and move on with who she was supposed to be.
The thing about immortality, is that she finds she is never finished. One day, she would like to find that her story comes to an end. But today is not that day.
“I just wanted to say…” She stumbles over her words, her eyes still looking out at the roiling ocean, their bodies pressed against each other in companionable quiet. “I just wanted to thank you for loving me. Even for that short while.”