hey it's ur bestie and I'm dying for some kaider action. Hook me up! Anything! But like, attending Cresswells wedding and looking back at theirs!!! oooh that's good better do it before I do! Haha
OFC I’M DOING IT NOW I’M GONNA BEAT YOU AK I WILLLLLLLLLLLL I SWEAR IT (lol watch me take 3 years to write this fic)
“He’s got the honeymoon look,” Kai said with a grin, and Cinder laughed as quietly as she could.
“That look will go away in, like, 3 months,” she said. She turned to look at Kai, who was… never mind, he was giving her the exact same look that Thorne was staring at Cress with. “Never mind, then. At least a year.”
He laughed, and pressed a kiss to her temple. She leaned into the touch, resting her head against his shoulder as they watched Cress say her vows and Thorne say his vows, and then they were kissing and everyone was cheering and Cinder felt like she would burst with how content she felt here.
She wondered if she should tell Kai that she was pregnant. No, she wouldn’t take the spotlight away from Cress and Thorne on their big day. But later, when she and Kai were alone, she knew that the words were going to tumble out of her mouth and then he’d stare at her in shock and then excitement and then pure elation. This was what they’d been wanting since they got married.
But right now— right now she’d focus on Cress and Thorne. Focus on the way that Thorne couldn’t take his arm from around Cress’s waist, the way that his grin never dipped below 80 watts, the way that the way that the two of them looked at each other was the same way that Cinder and Kai looked at each other. And she knew that Cress and Thorne were perfect for each other.
Kai squeezed her hand, and Cinder looked up at his joyful face and knew that he was remembering their wedding, too. She felt so whole here, with best friends and a husband and a soon to be son or daughter. Soon to be a family. She reveled in the knowledge that the two people standing on the dance floor, slowly taking lazy circles and purely and wholly in love with each other— those were her best friends. She loved them with all her heart, as much as she loved Kai and Iko and Winter and Scarlet and Jacin and Wolf and even Torin and Suho.
She had a family. She never would have imagined that a few years ago, when she was still a lowly cyborg fixing androids and hovers for a living. Back when her mother still ruled over her life, back when she was ashamed of her metal limbs instead of proud of them, when she was ashamed of herself.
She was filled with such a maternal love— blame the pregnancy hormones (even though she knew it was too early)— that she couldn’t help herself from kindly stepping from Kai’s embrace and walking over to Thorne after he’d finished dancing with Cress. She held out her hand, and Thorne took it with a confused tilt to his eyebrows.
“I wanna dance with you,” she said. “You’re my best friend.”
He took her hand and they were slowly swirling around the floor, and Wolf and Cress reached for each other first, Scarlet laughing an excited laugh and reaching for Winter— Cinder and Thorne laughed as Kai and Jacin looked at each other and then at the dance floor, and simultaneously shook their heads as Scarlet cackled, Winter in her arms.
“I’m pregnant,” Cinder said, quiet enough that Thorne was the only one to hear. He almost stopped, with his mouth falling open and his eyes widening larger than she had ever seen.
She smirked. “It’s called sex, Thorne. You’ve probably done it.”
“Shush, I’m marrying the most innocent person in our gang, don’t make me out to be a predator.”
“Wait.” Cinder narrowed her eyes at him. “You’ve been dating for years and you haven’t… gone all the way?”
Thorne rolled his eyes. “Of course we have. But still.”
Cinder laughed. “Oh my god, she’s tamed you!”
Cinder couldn’t stop laughing, as the tempo of the song picked up and they spun faster and faster, and she threw her head back and let Thorne curse as he tried to compensate for her leaning all her weight on him.
“Aces, Cinder. You know that you’re heavy.”
She chuckled and hugged him tightly. “You be good to her, okay?”
“Of course I’ll be good to her,” he said, and his palm stroked up and down over her back, and he pressed a kiss to the top of her head, and the song slowly faded out. “Now, go dance with your husband so that I can dance with my wife.”
“Don’t you love saying it?” she said.
“It’s my favorite thing to say.”
“That won’t ever go away,” she said, and she walked towards Kai.
send me fanfiction prompts! I write for fandoms other than the lunar chronicles, it’s just that I haven’t had inspiration :D I’ve got too much free time so if you want fanfic then ask me :)
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