Title: we are stardust
Author: Mary (
stillxmyxheart)
Beta: Lindsay (
nylana)
Rating: G
Genre: Romance
Word Count: 331
Characters: Rose/Ten
Disclaimer: Anything you recognize? Ain't mine.
Summary: She holds the stars in her eyes and his hearts in her hands.
A/N: For Challenge 28 at
then_theres_us :D
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Her hand is warm in his, small and delicate, and he feels the slow, languid beat of her pulse. He imagines that it is stardust that runs through her veins for what else could make her shine the way she does? )
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His fingers are light on the lines of her face, tracing and memorizing (though he already knows her by heart), loving every inch of her countenance, her body, her heart and her soul.
*wibbles* nomnomnom, I love how he loves her, it makes me giddy and a bit giggly :D
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Perhaps, he thinks, this is why the wind has been so calm today, breathless in anticipation of what she would think of its handiwork
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It is a real plus when you can manage to turn my bones to goo within the first paragraph! The rest of the fic I was just *happysigh*
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He imagines that it is stardust that runs through her veins for what else could make her shine the way she does?
This line is amazing. It captures perfectly how he sees her, and the description is lovely.
like diamonds cast upon the soft black fabric of a jeweler's cloth
One of the best similes I've seen in ages.
Also, pepper is an amazing verb. ♥
he thinks she must've breathed them into existence when she awoke that day and yawned against the morning sun, or maybe the wind took the water droplets she shook from her hair after that afternoon's unexpected rain shower and tossed them into space.
Utterly wonderful.
(Perhaps, he thinks, this is why the wind has been so calm today, breathless in anticipation of what she would think of its handiwork.)
I adore this little aside.
Beautiful, beautiful fic. I know I quoted almost the entire thing but it was utterly gorgeous and deserves to be praised. ♥
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