4fter-hours - 4fter-Hours

I’ll be on in a moment but I don’t know how much I’ll get done because the muses are in a ✨mood ✨

@dozenrozez

It was fitting that this was taking place in the freezing rain. Cold as Elizabeth was, as she had been for years. She had been cold since the day Jennifer had left her in that park a couple of weeks after her father died, she slept in the tubes and slides for days waiting for Jennifer to come back before someone finally realized she had been staying there. The cold of those nights was still something she felt deep in her bones when she realized everyone left her behind. No one ever wanted her. Not the families who said they did, only to return her weeks later because she wouldn't talk. Or the system that could care less if she was okay or not wherever she went. Not the teachers in the multiple schools she needed to transfer to. Nor the counselors who failed to see that she was failing because of the situation life had thrown at her. Not because she was stupid. No one had ever cared.

Kobe had and she had waited for him to leave, pushed him to leave, like everyone else did, only for her to realize that it wasn't what she wanted. She wanted him. She loved him. She didn't want him to be another name on that long list of people who left.

The warmth of his jacket on her shoulders snapped her out of all of it. The bad memories were chased away as looked up at him, hazel eyes blurred through tears. As she held on tightly to him, the warmth of his body drove the the chill from her bones away. Kissing him with all the passion that she had in her, all the love she hid from him. Elizabeth arms wrapped around him, held onto him as if a life preserver in the ocean she was drowning in. As he began to move the two of them from the rain back into her house, she chanted whispers of I love you and I’m so sorry, like a prayer in between kisses. Willing and ready to do anything to show how much she did.

He was going to leave... even he had his limits, but seeing her there, seeing her in the rain and hearing the words that she spoke, he knew then that he'd never be able to actually go through with it. Threaten it, yes... but he'd be crazy to leave somebody as wonderful as Elizabeth. Yes she had her issues, yes she pushed him away and kept him on a leash for all this time... but he could forgive her for all of that.

He was just glad that she was kissing him back. He couldn't help the arousal he felt at the contact, always so easily riled up by her, he simply couldn't help it. Seeing her shiver as she made her promise, Kobe doesn't hesitate to shrug out of the leather jacket he wore, draping it over her shoulders with a wry smile.

"...Good.." was all he was able to say on the matter before he was kissing her again. Dipping down, his hands come to rest just below her ass, scooping her up into his arms so that her legs wrapped around him... and with his mouth still urgently kissing her, he moved them back towards the building proper.

It was time to get her out of the rain.

Lucius wanted nothing more than a night alone with his boyfriend. No, his fiancé, now. He still couldn't believe that they all had been able to keep this a secret from him for so long. The most romantic proposal ever and now all he wanted was to thank the love of his life proper.

Unable to keep his hands off his husband-to-be, as they rode the elevator up to their hotel room. Once they reached their hotel room, he pulled him to the bed. "I love you, Olly." He groaned against his lips as he began to work on the button of his beloveds clothing.

. @florxdexcerezos

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