Sea of Hearts
Nikolai Lantsov x F!Reader
Summary: As you enjoy the rain, someone enjoys your happiness.
Word count: 1,695
Warnings: None
Notes: This was a little different in my head, but still, I like it. The story isn't deeply written. I just found the scene cute in my head. Hope you like it!
Also, this is basicly a Sturmhond x Reader, but it doesnt really matter. It's short anyways.
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Sturmhond was a mysterious man.
That was how you could define him. Of course, he had other definitions besides mysterious. Like handsome, intelligent, talented, adventurous... He was the hound of seas.
You've been on his ship for more than one year. You've watched his every move. It was your job, to watch him and if something goes wrong you go help him. As a tidemaker, you were there when he asked for your help to control the ship against the feral waves that had the power to crush every ship that sails on water.
Sometimes, on stormy days he sought your help. You loved being helpful, because you thought you didn't deserve the money you got from him. Wishing for air to be stormy was the cruelest thing to do but sometimes that was all you did.
When he found out about it he didn't get mad. You expected him to, but he didn't. Your act was childish and he actually laughed when you told him that you wished for the day to get worse. You wanted to be worthy of the money and he understood your worries.
He was the best.
He was funny and careful. Even in your saddest days, he made you laugh until your stomach hurt. At the times you catch a cold he calls his most trusted healer to treat you.
Not only you, though. Obviously. He cares for everyone on the ship. His ship is his little kingdom and he cares for it more than anything in the earth and sea.
You blinked as something fell on your head. You slightly jump where you stand. As you looked up at the sky you felt more raindrops fall on your head. You smiled into the air. You loved the rain.
The rain made you feel alive. The raindrops that fell upon you touched your skin as if they were parts of you that had drifted away. It hadn't been raining for a long time and deep inside you knew that it was a reunion.
You slowly spun around yourself and spread your arms around as you giggled playfully. By using your small science you made the little drops stay on your skin. They were like armor to you, ready to protect you at all costs. They indeed made you alive. Kept you alive.
Behind you, you heard a familiar laugh. As you turned your back you already knew who you were gonna meet. Your crew captain. With his auburn hair and green eyes, charming face, and burning gaze he looked like a living saint.
He was leaning on the railing. His arms were tied to his well-built chest. As the rain got faster his shirt got wet. Unlike him, you were as dry as the ones that were sleeping inside of their cabin. The water drops were touching your skin but they didn't stick to you. You never knew why but it always happened when it rained. It touched you, made a connection with you but never stayed with you. As if the water drops didn't want you to get cold or something like that.
"Hello, Kapitan." You smiled widely as you got closer to him.
"Hello, Y/N. Having fun?" He asked with a mischivious grin.
"Always." You answered. "Wanna join me, Kapitan?"
He shook his head and your smile slightly faded. You normally wouldn't care if someone didn't want to join you but a part of you knew that it was different with him. It had always been different with him. You never knew why.
"I'd rather watch, but thanks." He winked an eye. You were quite sure that you saw a reassured impression on his face when your face lightened up with a bigger smile than before. "I want to know why my favourite tidemaker is awake while everyone else sleeping and having their ten thousandth dream?"
You blushed without a reason. "Well, I couldn't reach sleep so I came here to watch the sea." You turned to look at the endless sea. It was dark but the moonlight made it clear for your eyesight. "When I was younger I was afraid of the sea at night."
"I thought you grew up in a coastal village before you went to the Little Palace."
He remembered. As always, he remembered every little piece of you. You told him once about your childhood because you weren't fond of talking about it. You both were drunk and you rambled something to him. But he remembered.
This little thing made your heart go wild.
"That is right." You mumbled. It was so quiet that he even could hear your heartbeat. "But my brother... He told me a story about the sea creatures that lurk at night. I didn't care about the story and the day after that night I went to the shore with my friend. We got scared of the little stones the second we entered the sea and ran away." You laughed as you told him the story of your early life. When you looked at him, you found him staring at you with those eyes. "Sorry, for the rambling."
"No, not at all." He told you. "I love your little stories. Imagining little Y/N running away from so-called creatures was quite fun." His laugh made you blush even more. "But I didn't know you had a brother."
You cleared your throat before you spoke, trying to control your voice. "A month before they took me he... He died from fever." You felt the raindrops hit your head again. This time they were making you wet. To hide the hot tears that threatened your eyes. "My mother lost two children in the same year. Month even. It must have been hard for her."
Your face was wet with rain but all the rain did was hide the tears from the eyes that looked. But it was impossible for anything to hide it from him. He stretched out his hand and wiped your face. His touch had the remnants of tendency and softness.
"It must have been hard for you."
His hand felt right on your cheek. It was like it belonged there. You felt light as a feather. Your worries left your soul with only his soft touch.
"It was." You wiped the tears that stained your face. "But it stayed in the past. I am here with you, I have a new life. I have power that I've improved over the years. I can protect myself and I... can find love, someday."
"I love the way you think. Very optimistic you are..." His eyes fell down to your lips and then immediately climbed up to your eyes. Or you thought so. "I am surprised to know that you haven't found love." His fingers pushed some of your unruly hair behind your ear. "A powerful, magical girl like you should be worshiped."
His words were a new weight on your heart. It shuttered, but didn't break. You knew your heart was so vulnerable that it couldn't handle a little romantic phrase.
A smile made its way on his lips when he saw your lips parted, cheeks red and eyes shiny as moonlight. "My pretty, selfless little tidemaker..." he whispered. His face was closer to yours. His hand on your cheek made its way into your hair and his always soft touch remained there like it found a treasure there. "May I kiss you, Y/N?" The question left his lips like a plea.
You nodded, your mind was under his charm. "Yes." You answered.
After your very brief answer, he kissed you very tenderly. As if testing the waters he parted your lips, but didn't move a bit away from you. Your noses that touched each other were red. The rain still affecting the both of you. You felt like every drop was to make sure that you weren't burning with the flames of intimacy between you and Sturmhond.
This time you connected your lips. His other hand went to your back and rested there. His hand in your hair was... afraid to touch. He was acting like he was gonna break you if he touched you. You wanted to tell him with your kisses that you were fine.
You were not a glass after all.
When you shyly let your tongue enter his mouth to wander, he pulled off of you. His hand on your back tightened as he looked at you.
"Did I— Did I do something wrong? I'm sorry—"
"No, no, never. You never do wrong, my love." He stroked your hair as he looked at you in the eyes. "I don't think I can hold back."
"Then don't." You said. Sudden courage filling your whole body. "I don't want you to..." You didn't know his real name.
He knew the reason for your sudden stop. He moved his mouth closer to your ear. "Nikolai." He whispered as if he told you a secret.
"What?"
"It's Nikolai."
Nikolai. A beautiful name for a beautiful man.
"I don't want you to hold back, Nikolai." You didn't question anything as you kept your word. "I want to know."
You didn't know your heart, his heart, the feelings... You didn't know love at all. You wanted to know about everything that included your heart and feelings. You knew he was the one to guide you to your own heart.
You wanted to be familiar with yourself.
"I want you to show me."
There was a soft smile on his lips as he leaned down again to catch your lips. He was going to show you the doors of your heart. He was going to show you the way of love.
He was mysterious, handsome, intelligente and talented. He was the key of your love.
You were sailing on the sea of hearts with him as the rain continued. Still, trying to save you both from the invisible flames that surrounded you.
It was the night you forgot about the stories of the lurking creatures and loved the sea more at night.
This was the strory of how you found your love.
