Youre Just... Youre Staring At Me," I Said In A Voice Much Quieter Than I Meant It To Be. A Muscle Feathered

You’re just... you’re staring at me," I said in a voice much quieter than I meant it to be. A muscle feathered in his jaw. He swallowed. "I’ll stare at you if I want to.

Sophie Gracewell and Luca Falcone, Inferno

Solangelo dump

SUN AND THE STAR SPOILERS BEWARE

Nikolina Appreciation Week 2021 ♛ Day 2: Nikolai POV (of canon scene)

It was in that moment, as our banter flowed effortlessly, that I realised I needed to kiss her again. I reached out and brushed the hair back from her face. She froze. I rested my hand in the curve of her neck and waited for her to bolt, to tell me to stop, to say something. When she didn’t, I slid my palm up to cup her cheek. Her lovely, pink cheek. I longed to touch it more than once.

Then she spoke. She… she quoted me. I almost grinned like an idiot.

I moved closer, watching as the light from the meteor shower played over her beautiful face. I leaned in, watching her every move, waiting, giving her time to pull away. I stopped a breath away from her lips and whispered, “I love it when you quote me.” And then I brushed my lips over hers once, briefly, then again. Less of a kiss than the promise of one. It was all I allowed myself in that moment of weakness, so close to her.

“When you’re ready,” I finally said. Then I laced our hands together and let the moment pass so we could watch the stars fall through the sky, as they illuminated the night. I hoped she couldn’t feel my thundering pulse through our linked hands. I wished on a star we would do this again some day. And finish that kiss.

remus lupin drinks his tea + coffee with a truckload of milk and sugar as a child but as he grows up people tell him it’s childish so he only drinks black coffee & straight tea during the onset of the war and keeps drinking it keeps forcing the bitterness the sorrow down when lily dies when james dies when harry and sirius are ripped from him he continues to choke on his tasteless disgusting morning drink

flash forward lie low era he’s sitting at the kitchen table and sirius walks into the room and sees his coffee and shakes his head and pours milk into it and says “you idiot you never liked black coffee anyways”

If This is Love, Then Love is Easy - A Nikolina Fic

Nikolina Appreciation Week 2021 ♛ Day 4: Friends to Lovers

Summary: In a galaxy far away, Alina and Nikolai’s friendship might just take a step in a new direction.

Pairing: Alina/Nikolai

One-shot

Rating: Mature

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Excerpt:

Being friends with the prince of Ravka was quite troublesome for Alina Starkov. Especially since she had recently come to the realisation that she had romantic feelings for the insufferable man, on top of all the other feelings she already had for him. It made her position as Light Commander in the Ravkan’s most important spaceship a bit… complicated.

Alina was trying to understand why her heart had taken such an unexpected turn upon her promotion, when she went straight into the champagne fountain.

“Well sunshine… That certainly is the fastest way to get soaked in champagne.” A voice she knew all too well greeted her as a pair of calloused but gentle hands helped her out of the pool of stinky alcohol.

She groaned and pointedly ignored every person’s stare in the room, “I hate champagne, Nikolai.”

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This was beautifully written.

#14.“I’m trying so hard not to kiss you right now.” Nikolina pretty pretty please, boo

Hiii anon!! 

So I wasn’t really taking requests at the time I reblogged that post (it was for future reference) BUT YOUR REQUEST WAS SO PERFECT I HAD TO DO IT

it just took me a while to get the right idea. hope you’re not too mad about the lateness >w

anyways, here we go!!

Rated T for kissies and mentions of sexy times

The thingabout Nikolai Lantsov was that he was a master at being insufferable when he reallywanted.

“I’m tryingso hard not to kiss you right now, Alina.” He whispered, lips barely moving asthey danced through the crowd, a slow and respectable waltz played by the royalorchestra.

Alina kepther polite smile plastered on her face, even though in that moment she reallywanted to roll her eyes at the prince (and maybe smack him as well), “We don’tknow each other, remember? You can’t just kiss a complete stranger.” She hissedthrough her smile.

Nikolaichuckled and turned her around, pale golden skirts following her steps beforeshe was back in his embrace, “If I recall it correctly, we did exactly that,sunshine.”

She sighed,“Doesn’t mean you can do it right now, you idiot.”

“Doesn’tmean I can’t wish to do it.”

She rolledher eyes then, safe as the crowd grew endorsed in their own dance partners. Thetruth was that she wanted to kiss him right then as well. It had been weekssince they’d seen each other and their parting had been too fast to even sharea goodbye kiss.

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