MERRY CHRISTMAS✨
Here’s a little something something for the amazing @starswhogaze I’ve tried to make this has heartfelt and sweet as possible. There’s some greys anatomy and game of thrones references here that I know you’d love! So here is your Elain and Azriel garden rain confession!!
I love you.
Azriel was a mess. A complete and utter mess.
He sat on the floor of the training rings whilst ignoring the orders of his brothers.
Rhysand telling him that sitting down is not “training” and Cassian had only laughed at the idea of a sulking azriel that wasn’t in the mode to fight.
He was grumpy-yes. And kicking himself for the stupidity that happened during solstice. But it had only been a four days since.
Now they were hours from Christmas Day. Prythian surrounded by stars and drenched in rain. The city of starlight glittered with thousands of decorations and joy.
Azriel ignored his brothers comments. He quickly stood up and walked towards the empty balcony that provided much relief against the heat and sweat.
Everyday he’d been here. The farthest room away from the one female he started an obsession towards. Elain.
His most beautiful and yet challenging female. Since solstice, that fateful night he had to leave her behind like a lucid dream. Azriel had worked tirelessly to collect every bit of strength he had to stay from her.
Most nights he could get through a few hours with the help of alcohol. Which didn’t really help for the hunger that his body started to feel-.
Meanwhile, elain had been outside the house. Deep within the greenhouse she’d been working on.
After speaking to her sisters and construction workers. Elains garden had expanded into a three story mansion with a great open clearing.
The plant life had thrived so much since, Elains presence had it turned into a glowing oasis.
Trees that grew emerald leaves spread throughout the clearing. Cobblestone paths that glowed from the night sky and beautiful blue butterflies.
Blue- the same color as cobalt.
Elain told herself she’d get through her pain and her abandonment. But she never thought that cobalt would follow her around.
With the rain as it was, the garden was most definitely soaked. And Elain still needed to decorate the outside portion of the garden.
The trees provided a lot of privacy which worked against two very close shadow wraiths. Most days she’d tell them where she was and they’d leave her be to mingle with her devices.
But Elain was hurt. And most of her holiday joy had been saved only for her family.
Her view by the house really made it obvious she was outside. The glowing garden only having its strange magical blue light whenever Elain walked in.
Taking a few steps, the long cobble path and through the wisteria tunnel. Elain made her way to the only part of the garden that viewed the training rooms.
She could see into that balcony where an irritated Azriel stood. Watching the stars and clenching those scarred hands to the railing.
Somehow the male heard Elain moving. His eyes darting towards her figure that peeked through the greenery.
MOVE!
He shouted in his mind. There was no excuse he could make for the sudden jump over the railing. Azriels wings snapped open and a gust of wind aided his flight into a steady stream of air.
Elain heard that snap and the whistle of wind like a song. A song that sang when an Illyrian was in flight.
She made her way to the only open patch of the garden. It was no more than a five foot empty space in the middle of those emerald green trees.
Everything faintly littered with frost.
Azriels figured landed gently against the soft tamed grass. It was truly well taken cared of even.
He wore all black fighting clothes instead of the fighting leathers. He needed free rein of his body if he was going to do what he wanted too.
“H-how are you here?” Elain asked softly. The trees above provided no space large enough for a male with very big wings to enter.
“I saw you and followed your direction.” Azriel explained. From his position, he could only see elain through a few branches. But that didn’t stop him from turning into a body of shadows and sifting through the leaves with ease.
“You shouldn’t be here..it’s a waste of your training time.” Elain spoke. turning away from the male who already stood his full height.
“I’M SORRY!” Azriel shouted towards her.
To Elains shock she nearly covered her eyes at the power of that voice. Her hearing still being a strange mystery for all.
“Your what..?” Elain asked cluelessly. She knew what he was saying sorry too. She just needed him to talk. And elain wouldn’t get that if she forced him.
“I am sorry. For solstice. That night was never a mistake to me.” Azriel began. Elain taking steps towards him, the male focusing only on the beautiful flowing cobalt dress that was now soaked from the rain.
“I am sorry for my stupidity. I am sorry for getting so close to you. I am sorry for putting you in a position that made you feel unworthy.”
Silence between the two. But now they were closer- much closer, just a few feet apart still.
“I am sorry for every second I spent dreaming of you. For every minute I prayed you’d look my way. For every hour I tried to steal just so I could have your time.”
He took a slow breath, the rain drowning out the outside and cloaking them in a bubble.
“I am so fucking sorry that I have started to love you.”
Azriel spoke those words with so much honesty it sent Elain a wave of emotions.
The male she met when she was human first. The male that sang to her while she baked. The male she had dreams of helping start a family. Had well and truly said, “I love you.”
“You hurt me.” Elain started, striding for a closed space between them.
“You hurt me and I felt so lost when you left.”
Elain pulled her hair off her shoulder, Azriel only looking at the powerful doe eyes.
“You hurt me and for once in my life, I didn’t feel like some constellation prize.” She took a breath.
“I couldn’t sleep.”
“I couldn’t eat.”
“I couldn’t breathe, without you.”
“I tried so hard to understand what I did wrong, what I might’ve done to make you say this was a mistake-“
“It never was a mistake.” Azriel countered.
“Then why did you leave! Why did you leave me like that?”
Azriel stood silently. Listening to the rage full heart beats of the beautiful female in front of him.
“Rhys had saw us. He said Lucien was up stairs and if he had came down…cauldron boil us we didn’t know what would have happened.”
Elains eyes widen. The thought of her brother inflicting more pain than good to separate her from Azriel was infuriating.
“I had to leave because I was given an order. To stay away from you and to seek out other females for a realize. I couldn’t touch you, even when I struggled too at night.”
The pair stood in silence before a few cries of thunder stroke out. The lighting revealing the pained expressions of exhaustion on their faces.
“I would burn myself for you.” Elain spoke.
“No- what? No!” Azriel shouted.
“I would stay a thousand years in hel and in that cauldron if it meant I’d have you be mines.”
“Elain stop this-“
“I would risk my life over and over if it meant I could touch you and hold you and kiss you whenever I wanted too.”
“That’s enough Elain!”
“I wanted you to be my mate! I wanted you to be mines and I begged for the cauldron to make me yours!”
Azriel was gaped at those words. And Elain only continued before he could make a sound.
“I can’t stay away because it’s exhausting, I can’t function everyday without needing you in the room, I can’t sleep unless you’ve been near me. I don’t have peace unless you’re there.”
Elain began to shake. Began to crack. Began to reveal those words she kept so near and dear to her heart.
“I can’t love a male my heart doesn’t burn for.”
Elain pulled the front of Azriels work out shirt towards her silk dress body.
“My heart and soul burn for the male that saved me. That saw me for me. That rescued me, gods azriel you rescued me.”
Elain moaned softly before Azriel took her arms and pulled her forward into a hungry kiss. The warmth of their lips matching together with whatever fire that burned within.
The thunder rolled louder and the stars began to move. The garden grew more and more as those same blue butterflies swarmed them.
The garden was singing- no.
It was Elains heart that cried a soft melody. One that awoke a beautiful wave of joy and laughter and love from Azriels.
White tulips began to glow blue. Elains dress had somehow changed with that light, glowing more and more the beautiful siphon color.
And Azriels wings- gods his wings started to change. The red and gold membrane changed and shifted into floral patterns and some language only he knew.
That language was burned into Elains skin. On her chest showed a series of shadowy patterns and flowers.
But Azriel? Azriels wings in every surface revealed those same designs. A matching pair. Two hearts that burn for one.
“Stay the night, stay the night because I can’t keep using the sheets for help elain..” Azriel laughed as elain clutched to his form and began embracing him in the most dearest hug he dreamed of.
Elain leaned to kiss the heart that kept this male alive. While Azriel knelt down on one knee and kissed the torso that kept her standing.
“I vow my life to you Elain Archeron.”
“I vow every part of my body, mind, soul and heart to be yours.”
“I vow that every second of my existence is to love you and burn for you and you only.”
“I vow to have you satisfied and content for the years to come.”
“ I vow my future children to be yours.”
“And I vow my hand, my ring finger, to only carry the band that ties me to you.”
“My perfectly imperfect soul to only say one name: Elains”
Elain and azriel had stayed in that position. Her hands forming a shield over his head, while Azriel leaned his forward against the plush flesh of Elains body.
“And I vow to never let another soul hurt you and get away with it.”
Elain spoke strongly. Kneeling down to his level and hugging him tight.
“For I vow that the powers I have gained and taken from the cauldron, will be to protect you.”
“I vow to be your undying flame and true heart beat.”
“I vow every touch of your hand to ruin me for good”
“I vow to never let you go, no matter how close to the edge I am.”
“And I vow to never let my heart stop beating for you.”
Elain and Azriel looked at one another before saying vows the pair never even knew.
“Father”
“Smith”
“Warrior”
“Mother”
“Maiden”
“Crone”
“Stranger”
“I am hers”
“I am his”
“And she is mines”
“And he is mines”
“From this day, until the end of my days”
