#eden&asher

[elpida]

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eden o'connor had the biggest crush of her life on her neighbour. what it was about him that had her so smitten she had no idea, but she'd told her friends about the neighbour that had her struggling for words whenever she saw him, she felt like a high school girl, the quiet one, head in a book, falling for the popular guy. destined to never be brave enough to make more than small talk. that's who she'd been in high school, the quiet one, the shy one that never manged to say hi, so she was doing something about it now. that's why she was stood in front of her door, staring at it and building the courage to lift her hand up, tighten her knuckles and rasp them against his door.

that was when her heart started to race, for a moment she felt a bit of panic of it and then the door cracked and that was it. her mind went completely blank and she stood there, a nervous smile starting to form, along with heat in her cheeks but... even just standing there, her heart calmed. "hi-" she managed that, the first word, after moments of her trying to form the damn word at all. maybe he'd think her insane, plain, boring, any of that but at least she'd be able to say that he at the very least, knew her. "hi, i'm.. well you know i'm your neighbour but my name is eden and umm.." if she wasn't holding a paper bag up to him, she'd have been tying her fingers together, knotting them in worry. "well i noticed you got home late and i own a bakery so i always have bits extra that i bring home i thought, maybe you might be hungry? i didn't mean to pry or anything at all! just figured that maybe you'd have a long day too and.." she pressed her lips together, lifting up the paper bag, filled with little treats, some homemade bread, all wrapped individually and all time she'd spent wondering what might be his favourite flavours. "this is for you, it's not a problem i really have way more than i could ever eat alone." her giglge, though it scrunched her nose, was soft and airy, got he made her melt and the butterflies she had in the pit of her stomach made her feel all the more foolish. maybe he had a girlfriend, someone more confident and daring. maybe he didn't see her or notice her, at all.

[elpida]

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she didn't know how many days it'd been, how long she'd been laying in that bed.. and she didn't know how torturous her silence had been but what she did know was it was late, an owl was hooting outside and for the most part this house was silent. it didn't matter where she was, what was going on she just knew the soft breathing beside her. had he left her side at all? everything felt hazy but... asher was beside her and - fuck it hurt to move when she tried to push upright. instead, eden lay back down and rolled a little more to her side, just to look at him.

it hurt, her whole body hurt. she could remember the sudden pain, being shot, the way he'd hushed sweet nothings, then it was glimpses, the car, eris and god, an awful.. awful pain. had that not hurt him more, having to hold her through that? to sit there with her in his arms, to lay here and watch her unmoving and still? she reached her hand up slowly, just to rest it to the side of his face and start to push her fingers back and through his hair, brushing little strands from his face. "i'm okay." she whispered, the same, sweetly soft fingers she'd always had, smoothing along his jaw, his cheek, utterly gentle and entirely loving. "i'm okay now. i'm here."

she shuffled, bit by bit, so that she could be up to his side, he was warm, so nice and warm and she felt cold, it didn't change the way she leaned just enough to press her lips to his temple, this silly thought she could ease away the worries in his mind if she just kept peppering this kisses.

[elpida]

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edens home in the woods was her peace, a log cabin with a porch and it was clear she adored it for many years now. plants hunt from the beams, she had a fireplace inside that she kept going, low and slow, warming the rooms when it got late. tonight she had plans to go out foraging, to go find aiyla and potentially end up at starks as that had become a routine now. the only thing is it was deep in the forest, hidden away... peaceful for the most part but when she stepped out on to her porch she felt it instantly. something in the air was wrong, she wasn't alone, someone was... nearby, something or someone. she could feel it in the air between the branches, in the wind, the scent that wasn't familiar around here... the thirst that sent chills along her skin.

pretend. that's what she knew to do, not fight so eden paused, fished in her bag like she'd forgotten something and then turned to go back inside quickly only this time she turned and bolted that door firmly shut. there was a crack, a branch stepped on and she was fishing for her phone with shaking hands. she knew, she just knew... considering how alert she'd been alert for days now. ever since that one vampire made a move at her, there was a part of her that knew that eventually they would come for her. she'd dialed a number in her phone without thinking, one aiyla had added and insisted she had there, just in case and maybe she was wrong, maybe it was nothing but what if she was right? what if it wa- "little nymph or... are you a nymph?" a deep inhale, a sickening noise, a low rumbling growl of hunger. "i can smell you're here, you just smelled so sweet... how polite of me to pay you a little visit, the least you can do is come out, say hello, fae."

she dialed the number and waited for that answer, pressing her back to the door and spoke in the most hushed and terrified whisper. "asher? he found me." even her breath was shaky. "i don't know what to do he's going to kill me asher i- i need you." just like that, one vampire had put her into something she never wanted to remember, made her remember how it felt to be hunted.

[elpida]

❗❗❗( asher & eden )

she shouldn't. asher was a vampire, he was the very thing he feared the most. she was the thing his kind went crazy for, they had blood lust in uncontrollable amounts for them, but eden was drunk on strawberry wine. she'd got a lot more confident coming to starks, especially when aiyla was with her. people eventually started to believe the sweet scent was just another nymph, it was masked.. just enough. just not enough to him and she should have stayed so far away... stupidly enough she'd instead, stayed near. that night he rescued her? that he made sure she got home safe to that forest that protected her? well after that.. she started appearing, just differently. eden had no idea if he knew the little bunny that he'd find on his porch, curled up and sleeping was her... but it was. she felt safe there, comfortable.

half of the cells in her body told her to stay so clear, to stay away.. and the other half? begged her to stay nearby, to let him protect her, to twitch her ears every time she heard him speak and lock into the sound of his breathing. "i'll be two mintues- no no two minutes! i'll be back!" she giggled, sliding from her bar stool just to sneak away from the bar and into the back storage room. she'd watched him go back there, knew he was alone and with such little thought in her head, just strawberry wine and drunk bright ideas that she let take over.

"asher." not a question, a statement to get him to turn to her and when he did? she pushed him with her body, just enough that his back was to the wall and stood on her tiptoes to push her lips against his, lips that tasted as sweet as she smelled. her hands were on his cheeks, pulling him to her. she'd barely let him think before she'd done it, kissed him- she was kissing him. the thought hit her so quickly, and in another second she moved back.. like she suddenly realized how hard that'd be for him, that his fangs might catch her or even that she.. was wrong, that he just saw her as an annoyance to look over because he had a duty of care in this bar. "i shouldn't have done that."

[elpida]

@isolatednights this is so like, i can see eden running to asher frightened about something, like when she just nods to communicate that her dad did something bad? like trying to tell him and him knowing that she's that frightened that she just can't? so when she moves to him it's a case of, i'm going to hold you so you feel SAFE and protected.

[elpida]

@isolatednights SPEAK OF HER OVER MY GRAVE AND WATCH HOW SHE BRINGS ME BACK TO LIFE LKSDFJGKLSJDF and you're telling me this isn't asher? you're telling me this ISN'T about them?

[elpida]

@isolatednights i can't express how much i see asher and eden, you make her hair shorter and it's them. LIKE TELLLLL ME sunny afternoon on the farm and he isn't just sitting with her like that, listening to her babble on and just happy to sit there and listen because it's her? it's the gently hand on her back, ITS THE ADORATION.

[elpida]

[ hot tub ] for asher / eden

eden never cursed, but the 'fuck' that left her lips was from feeling the size of him pressed between her, from the fingers around her throat, from him, his breath in her ear and the hushed words meant just for her. greed had over taken her, her hand moved to rest over the one of his wrapped around her throat and her body had already started to grind down against his erection. fingers urged his hand to wrap tighter, to be rougher with her, claim her entirely as his.

edens other hand snaked up into ashers hair, daring to furrow her fingers, grip, and pull his mouth back enough that she could whisper her lust to him, to say the words that rolled from her tongue far to easily. "i want you to say it.." she breathed, her cheeks flushed with a flustered heat, a deep red blushing heat. all she had on was a bikini, that was it, a thin piece of fabric, even the way she arched her back had her breasts pressing into his chest. "i want you to say how much you want me." she wasn't letting his lips inch forward, she wasn't letting them reconnect with hers until he said it, until she got to hear it. instead she stayed at that dangerous distance, he'd feel the heat of her words on his lips and not be able to reach them yet offered him her delicate throat in his fingers. "i want to hear how bad you need this asher." the bubbles splashing around them made her skin look like it glistened, the damp nature of her hair more wavy than usual.

she moaned, hovering against his lips when she pushed herself down again, sliding herself along his length slowly, god it was torturous. "tell me and maybe i'll give you exactly what you want.." she hushed, that sweet tone shouldn't sound so sinful when she whispered like that. "are you thinking about it asher? i've thought about it... so many times, about how big you might be, if it'd fit and.. how i'd make it fit anyway. i think i can take it, don't you?" she was teasing him, well and truly. "inch.. by inch." she almost purred, that slow repeat of her hips slow bucking.