AN: This is inspired by two tiktoks made by @bookishlyaries, using lines from bridgerton and Outlander. My first fic back, hope you guys like it. My requsts are open. Enjoy!
It had been like this for the past couple of years, the constant glances from the both of them. Too afraid to say something to the other, too nervous after so much has happened. How could they, but there wouldn’t be a story if neither one of them has not budged. So this is how they finally got their happy ever after.
It was flashes from her, of how they were kidnapped and brought to the room and she saw her sister and the group of people that came to their house asking for help, then she was being dragged to the cauldron, and then the pitch black of being in the icy depths, to coughing on the stone floor and looking up to see himself. And the words “She’s my mate,” were being said before everything came rushing back to Lucien.
This was the second time he had this nightmare, he knew that it was terrible, he knew he should have waited but it was too late now. Too late to see if he changed what happened would there be a chance that she would have accepted the bond, would have accepted him. He knew that there was no point in trying to fall back asleep now and so he got up and started to get ready for the day, but that night when he went to sleep something was waiting for him, and then he felt it, the fear.
Glimpses of Ferye, glimpses of everyone that Lucien had gotten used to when he went to the night court, and then the sight of what happened to be Nesta doubled. In one she was laughing at what Cassien had said in her ear while the one she looked like she was ready to leave the party and gave a gaze that held so many emotions he didn’t know where to start to untangle the meaning. But then it changed to him, to where he was sitting on a blanket with her laughing and the other where he was laying on the ground seeming to be bleeding and him dying.
That woke him up as he sat up in bed with sweat running down his face, he felt the panic and when that subsided the sorrow fell down the bond before her shields snapped into place. He remembered when she was not fully herself after Feyre and himself finally got to Velaris. Seeing visions, and stuck in a fog that she couldn’t get out of, was that what all of her dreams were like? All different ways of what would happen or would be happening? Was he going to die, or live long enough to see the first option come true?
He decided then and there he was going to check on her, if she sent him away he could understand. He just wanted to tell her this. So he got dressed and started on his way to the court of dreams.
It was just after lunch when he finally arrived there, and then he got to the house of wind, and looked up to the top before he let out a breath about to start the climb, he slowly made his way up, and up, and up and up. It was a good half of an hour at least when he finally reached the top. He had to take a couple of minutes to breath before he opened the door. There sitting in the room was Cassien eating with Nesta reading beside him. And Elain looked out the window to the mountains. It was Cassien who looked at him first, “You must have something important to share to climb up all of those stairs.”
“I do, to Elain. Would you and Nesta give me a couple minutes to talk to her alone, please?”
They shared a look at each other before getting up as Nesta gave him a look to tell him, 'She would make sure to kill him if he hurt her.’ He got closer yet still gave her space, when he looked at her. She looked beautiful to him even though it looked like she had been crying and he was wondering if she had seen him coming here.
“Elain, I realized that I had never properly apologized to you for what happened that day. I am so sorry. It must have been terrible for and to hear me say that you are my mate must have been shocking and upsetting. I understand, and if you never wish to see me again I will understand. I just wanted to tell you that I’m sorry that you were never given a chance to decide what you wanted without someone else chipping in.”
“You came all this way to say that?”
“For the most part yes, and to ask this to see if you ever want to see me again. Do you love me?”
“I’m trying to protect you.”
“I.. I cannot. This conversation.. I never wanted a mate, Lucien.”
“Is this because you do not want a mate, or that you could not love me. I don't care about the mating bond, I just want you. I love you, Elian. I love you so much that I will do what you wish. If you do not, all you have to say is you don’t love me, and I will go. I will go back to the sun court. And we can live our separate lives, I will fill my days and survive. But first, you have to say that you do not love me. You have to tell me that I am utterly alone in this world.”
“I am a madwoman, I’m a danger. In my mind there are different worlds creeping in. The future and the present collide, I do not know how to save them all.”
“You do not wish a life with me for yourself. No one wishes that.”
“Elain! I will stand with you between the present and future. I will help you save them all. Do you love me?”
“I love you!.. From the moment in here when I asked if you could hear my heartbeat, I loved you desperately. I cannot breathe when you are not near, I love you, Lucien. My heart calls your name.”
As the tears rolled down her cheeks she got closer to him and pulled him into a kiss, it took a second to pass before he returned the kiss. As one hand cupped her cheek and the other on her waist. After a couple moments they broke apart. “I love you too.”
“I wanted to tell you. I wanted you to know.” She said as he rested his forehead against hers. “This sight has been a darkness has been my burden and you have been my light.”
He kissed her again not wanting this moment to end, to let it continue on.
After a couple of months of courting where they actually learn about each other, and they did little days where he would help her with gardening, or they both sat in the house and read when it was raining. I had been a constant of hand holding, and cuddling when they were alone. Elain talked about her visions as Lucien tried to help her through them. And Lucien talked about when he was the son of not the autumn court but the Day court and how he had a family that actually loved him and a court where he wasn’t a joke.
One day when the sun was warm and not too hot they decided to go on a picnic as they sat together and he was resting against a trunk of a tree when he felt a gentle tug and he lost his balance as his head was now in Elian’s lap and she brushed hair out of his face. As he fed her a couple of grapes, she was also snacking on a piece of jerky when she went to feed him a piece he stopped her wrist from coming closer. “It is tradition that if you serve your mate food you accept the bond, which is silly I know but
I wanted to let you know.”
That made him sit up, as he looked at her and stared at her like this was a dream. He cupped her cheeks with both of his hands with a shaky laugh as they moved to his legs. As she served him the simple piece of food, which was gone in a flash they stared at each other with tears running down both of their faces. As he wiped the tears from her cheeks the bond finally clicked into place for both of them. “You have my name, my court, my family, and if necessary the protection of my body as well.”
As he cupped one of her cheeks in his hand and she went to hold onto his hand when he moved it to run down her lips. As they both smiled and were still crying a little as he leaned over to kiss her. To hold her in his arms and wasn’t going to let go anytime soon.
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