▲ : leaning your head against their shoulder (thcbrxt)
The typical cost for using their gifts merited exhaustion majority of the time, especially true were they new to establish limits. Victoria McQueen was just that, new - as green to him as they had come. Yet he quarreled with himself over it being an advantage, however misguided that may be. Or so that was all his mind could decipher from the act ; advantage toward their game. Low rumbling of engine amplifiers were the lullaby for many. Her rest against him validating warmth which sunk first into the fibers of his coat, was enough to strip his attention from the road all together. Ensnaring him under a double take splayed over her rather content lead , heralding his heart to leap for affection as the source. Pondering if she realized that it had been he, the object of her adversity - her savior from the elements that she foolishly rushed to find the lost ; was the one she leaned on now.
It appealed to him further than he would have liked to admit, finding himself yearning to reach out and touch the object he craved. He hadn’t realized he was succumbing to just that until he negotiated with the opposite arm drawn up for digits to cup and skim elongated nails featherly adrift her cheek and forehead, yielding a stray few in strands back beyond an ear in effort to reveal the entirety of her face for him to adore. “ What a catch you make, little Missy, “ a thought that unfastened to a murmur barely audible. @thcbrxt
The gifted always had to pay a price...and hers was a lovely mixed bag of debilitating headaches, a bleeding eye, convulsions and the cherry on top of an ancient malevolent being following her every move. The same malevolent being she was now sleeping against. Maybe if things had been different, if they'd both been normal and met like normal people....who knows... When he touched her cheek she stirred, eyelids twitching, threatening to awaken before she settled back down. She'd be enraged, perhaps, when she woke up that he'd gotten to her, found her at her most vulnerable, but for now she slept on...
