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Am not prepared to make the hardest decision of my life: which do I listen to first on October 27th? 1989 TV or The Good Witch Deluxe??

I love this SO MUCH!! This is my favorite type of fic - post-story, with wholesome Rowaelin moments 🥰💕

This is the kind of thing I hope I make when I’m writing 🥰🥰

Scaling in the Moonlight

Hello everyone!!! Long time no see!!! It's been eleven months!!!!! since I last wrote anything. I hated the fact that I missed last years rowaelin month and was determined to write something for this years rowaelin month (and a special thank you to @goddess-aelin for her lovely note saying she missed my work <3)

And thanks to the lovely people that run rowaelin month!!! you are all amazing!!! @rowaelinscourt

Apologies in advance if my writing and grammar and characterisation is a little rusty, like I said, it's been eleven months since I last wrote anything and I'm slowly getting through my ToG re-read (which has really opened my eyes to how traumatised Aelin is as a person/character).

Words: 800+. CW: none, I don't think.

Day 18- Aelin and Rowan's hawk form.

It was two AM and Aelin was out, wondering the dark city streets of Orynth, looking for the right building.

Instead of using the castle's obstacle course like most sane people would, Aelin decided that she needed to do this the way she was trained too—by scaling the side of buildings, using every muscle in her body to pull herself up to reach the top of the building, to run across the rooftops to get closer to her target.

She needed the reminder that she could—and that she hadn't lost her edge.

Although, she was sure she had lost it. She did still train, from magic to weapons to hand-to-hand combat, she did whichever she was in the mood for with what free time she had, but as Queen and mother to five children, she had no need to scale buildings and jump from rooftop to rooftop.

So she had decided, as she ate her dinner with her family, she was going to relive her past life; if only for a couple of hours.

Aelin walked through one more street before she found a good starting point—a shoe store that she did frequent with Rowan and their children. It was two storeys tall and she knew that no one occupied the apartment above the shop so no one would see her.

Hopefully no one would hear her either.

Stretching before climbing, Aelin told herself that it would be fine. She had given birth to five children, all without pain relieving herbs, she could—would—scale this building with ease.

Finding her footing was easy enough, so Aelin started her trek—and thankfully didn't fall off, although she did slid time a few times and had to grit her teeth to stop her cursing from echoing around town.

The burning in her muscles took her back to how she used to be, how she used to be able to demand any contract and fat coin purse she desired.

She didn't miss that life, not at all, but it was part of who she was and she was not ashamed of it.

Taking one last gulping breath, Aelin hoisted herself over the roofs ledge and let the accomplishment rush through her.

So determined she was in proving herself that she could still do this, she hadn't been aware that she had a follower.

A follower that now clicked his beak at her.

Aelin's head snapped upwards, taking in her mate's large hawk-form as he perched on the chimney.

“You were asleep when I left,” was all Aelin could think of to say.

Rowan clicked his beak again, as if to say And now I'm awake.

“Clearly,” Aelin said, “how'd I go from your end?”

She waited for him to shift back but he didn't. He wasn't mad at her, she knew that much, but she didn't want anyone to see her talking to her mate like this—it felt too intimate to be like this in public, but after two decades together, Aelin could converse with Rowan in his hawk form as easily as she could talk to him in his Fae form.

Rowan didn't say anything but flew to the building next to her. He clicked his beak. You can climb well enough, let's see how you can jump.

Aelin moved to the ledge, looking down to the ground, if she didn't make it, she wouldn't die, but she'd probably be bruised all over.

She looked at Rowan, who was waiting patiently. “Will you nurse me back to health if I fall?” she asked, batting her eyelashes at her husband, who rolled his eyes.

“That better be a yes,” she said and moved back to take a running jump.

Gods, if she fell, she'd never get over the embarrassment.

Aelin ran and jumped—and just made it. She hit her chin hard enough that when she made it over the ledge of the building, she laid down and stared at the open night sky.

A flash of light brighter than the moon came and went, and then there was Rowan, taking her in.

“Fireheart,” he said, his voice deep and concerned. “Are you alright?”

“I'm fine,” Aelin said, her chin sore but she would live. She eyed her mate up and down, however, and said, “But I would still appreciate being nursed back to health—especially if you take your shirt off.”

Rowan rolled his eyes again, but obliged her, his shirt coming off in one easy movement that had her contemplate making a sixth baby.

“Where does it hurt, milady?” her king-consort asked, his rough fingers moving across her collarbone.

“Here,” she said, pointing to her chin, and soon she was better, especially as she chased Rowan around in his hawk form, easily jumping from roof to roof as the hours went by.

1989, rep, & Speak Now 😊🩵🖤💜

what is your holy trinity of taylor swift albums? 😇🕯️✨

tell me in the tags!! (btw mine is speak now, evermore, and debut!!)

I would like to reintroduce my formal but polite pretty please request for a live album (of the regular setlist) and an accompanying live secret song album (because I know these audios must also exist) pleaaaase Taylor! kthanksweloveyou

listen I was just telling my friend that so many parts of miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince are so Alex and Henry

1. the title of the song duh

2. You know I adore you, I'm crazier for you fhan I was at 16, lost in a film scene, waving homecoming queens, marching band playing ~ henry literally in love with Alex for years

3. no cameras catch my pageant smile, I counted days, I counted miles to see you there, to see you there ~ the whole scenes of them trying to see each other, keeping their relationship under wraps

4. It's been a long time coming, but it's you and me, that's my whole world ~ very end speech coded and also the whole bea and alex scene on I will love him on purpose, alex asking henry that he'll only leave if he tells him too, the dance in v and a scene, karaoke scene SO MUCH AAH

5. you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes ~ entire polo scene, like their competitiveness which is so canon

6. We're so sad, we paint the town blue, voted most likely to run away with you ~ do i need to elaborate the times they have run towards each other

7. leave with my head hung, you are the only one who seems to care ~ henry caring about Alex's family problems, the moment when he got vulnerable (also the turkey scene lowkey cause only henry listened to the whinings of Alex)

8. And now the storm is coming, but It's you and me, that's my whole world ~ them fighting together against media when elevator pictures got leaked, faking it but they are in it together

9. And I don't want you to (go), I don't really wanna (fight)

'Cause nobody's gonna (win), I think you should come home

And I don't want you to (go), I don't really wanna (fight)

'Cause nobody's gonna (win), I think you should come home

And I don't want you to (go), I don't really wanna (fight)

'Cause nobody's gonna (win), just thought you should know

And I'll never let you (go) 'cause I know this is a (fight)

That someday we're gonna (win)~ DO I NEED TO EXPLAIN THE BRIDGE

10. It's you and me, that's my whole world They whisper in the hallway, "She's a bad, bad girl" She's a bad, bad girl ~ they are both bad girl coded, cause the banter but ughhh it's kinda alex for me

BUT PLEASE SCREAM WITH ME THANK YOU SO MUCH