I am greedy okay - ✤ - Moving/putting up their hair, showing off the back of their neck
The air was thick and heavy, it felt like it was stuck to your skin as you walked. Who knew London could even get this hot? The past week had been hell and had felt like it, too. It was the highest temperatures recorded in years. A heat wave meant one thing, disaster. People began going stir crazy, exhaustion and fatigue setting in a lot quicker than normal. Craziness meant people doing crazy things. Things that required Aurors to go and deal with. All crime rates had increased starting from the second night and continuing on until the fifth. It was lucky Alastor even found himself able to go home at night, but he was glad he did. He was glad for one reason only, Gabrielle. She would be over tonight, something in him just knew.
He was right and he knew this because as he heard the sound of his door being pushed open. No one else was bold enough to open his door unannounced, but they hadn’t needed that in years. They had found a rhythm, one that neither of them had asked for and he was sure they had both been oblivious to it happening. He figured she still was or else she wouldn’t be here. She wouldn’t be walking into his flat, slipping out of her shoes and pouring herself a glass of scotch before making her way to his sofa, slipping in beside him, all without speaking a word. No, she didn’t know the shift that had occurred between them and if she did she was doing one hell of a job of hiding it.
Time seemed to cease whenever she was around him. He no longer had any need for it. They could talk for hours, or sit in silence for hours and he wouldn’t notice. He was just grateful for her presence. He watched her, studying her carefully. The way she would wrap her lips around the glass before taking a small sip. The way a smile formed on her face as the amber liquid ran down her throat. The way she relaxed whenever his hands began to rub circles on her back. He watched everything, but nothing mesmerized him more than when she pulled her hair up. He was surprised it had taken her so long to pull it up with the heat, but he loved anytime she did. The way she would grab her hair in a fistful, exposing the entire back of her neck. The way she held it up as she pulled a rubberband through. There was something about the back of her neck that he loved and he couldn’t stop himself as he leaned forward to press his lips against her skin.
It was moments like these when he noticed the shift the most. Because now, as he kissed against her pulse, the words, ‘I love you’ kept wanting to slip through his lips. He couldn’t allow that. As much as his mind might want to whisper it, he couldn’t. He could love her, he just could never tell her. He shifted himself, pressing his lips against her own, anything to keep his mouth busy from saying the words he had forbidden himself from.