I seem to be doing it again. Another v small drabble/ficlet/whatever. Not read by anyone else, all mistakes my own.
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He's so much softer than you'd think.
You'd look at him and you'd think strong. Tough. He looks and sounds like alpha male personified - tall, broad, deep voiced, loud. Maybe even a little scary, a little intimidating.
He can, at times, be all those things, and more if he gets angry. But that's few and far between, because when you know him...
Oh, but when you know him, really know him...
He's quiet, often shy. Sometimes insecure.
A voice like amber honey. Sweet and healing.
Hands so gentle and delicate when that is what's needed.
Wild eyes that look at you like the sweetest rain and the warmest sun combined. A calming haven in a stormy world.
He'll hold you so tight and so close. He'll whisper in your ear that it's ok. He'll wrap himself around you in the darkest, coldest night and warm you. He'll take all your manic madness and ground you, not letting you lose yourself. He'll cry for you when you can't. He'll love you forever if you let him.
Link traces fingers upwards, fluttering across that broad chest to his shoulder and lets his thumb trace over a crop of freckles there.
He knew him so very well. And he was so very loved.
