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Is Your Love Strong Enough? Part 6 - The Final Scratch
Such a strange occurrence needed, finally a conclusion. Thanks for the Time Lord's trinket gift, there was suddenly an old, fearsome creature made of gears, it's old features squeaking (although not as bad as before, since a certain someone had given him a good oil job). Analog,the fearsome creature known by some as a the crankiest Time Dragon, walked in the city to find out o where Eleven was. She could smell him even in here, you see (wow that's creepy). Flanked by her three handmaidens, the women giggling like schoolgirls at everything, memorized at the ship. The city could hold her well, for all her large size.
First step - Find the Doctor, ask him what he wants. Step two - Do that. Step three - Get out of here.
She still was a Time Dragon, after all. Proud....and cranky. These boring old puny humanoids were nothing as the greatness of HERSELF so the sooner they were our of her mind, the better.
[OOC - Done! Go for it.]
First step - Find the Doctor, ask him what he wants. Step two - Do that. Step three - Get out of here.
She still was a Time Dragon, after all. Proud....and cranky. These boring old puny humanoids were nothing as the greatness of HERSELF so the sooner they were our of her mind, the better.
[OOC - Done! Go for it.]
Goliath and Elisa
I would have had this moment set aside until you wanted it.
On the other hand, professing their feelings was really nothing more than a formality. They hadn't had to share space in the same body to understand how each other felt - all that had done was confirm what they'd both understood.
Even so, Elisa, there is something I have wanted to say to you for a while.
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... or maybe just because she was scared.
Goliath would be aware of that by now. The goddess might have intended to promote harmony and improve morale, but what she'd really done was cause trouble by getting people to share things they wouldn't have ordinarily shared.
"Maybe there'll never be a perfect time," she said with a half shrug, trying to keep calm. She knew what he felt - what they both felt - and she knew what he was going to say, but her heart still beat a little faster.
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- but still, it should have been of her choice, not out of obligation.
Goliath had not felt truly angry at the goddess in question yet. Irritated, yes, but to be angry at a goddess for not understanding mortals was like being angry at a windstorm.
His anger finally sunk in as he felt Elisa's anxiety. There was no need for this, and yet, Nezaitben had made it the only thing that they truly needed to do. For all that he wanted to confess his love in words to her, he could have gone on waiting. But he could not be a passenger in her mind while he waited.
What are you afraid of?
He was prepared to go into battle with anything that might cause her fear. But if what she feared was him - his usual approach was useless.
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It was difficult to put this sort of thing into words at the best of times, but it was complicated even further by the way that they shared accompanying emotions at the moment.
Remember when we first met? You didn't want to trust humans and I said that a good detective didn't trust anyone either. I used to believe that. I wanted to work alone because I thought I'd do a better job that way. I was wrong. As strange as my life has been since I met you, I wouldn't change any of it. But this is about even more than trust. This is a big step for any couple, let alone a couple with our ... complications.
Another pause.
None of that changes how I feel about you.
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He considered her concerns, and how he might put words to his certainty in such a way as to respect her uncertainty.
I understand. She was still the one who had the possibility of a normal life to lose a chance at, and he knew her well enough to know that she loved her privacy - privacy which their present condition did not afford her.
He put words to what she already knew. I love you.
Yet, in all honesty, that was not enough. He loved many people - his clan, Angela, the other children of Avalon, even . . .
. . . even Demona. He could not hide the thought from her. But the love of remembrance and pity that still lingered for his former mate was not like the love he felt for Elisa, who gave him comfort simply by being the person she was - simply by having the soul she did.
That was a comfort he would have no matter what choice she eventually made about her feelings for him.
You are my dearest friend, and I admire you more each passing night. That was close to the whole truth, and yet not quite the total confession. I hope that one night, the time will be right to ask you to become my mate.
A powerful confession, one influenced by admiration, attraction, and love he had long since reached his own conclusion about. It was a confession he could not avoid making, if he was to be honest about the depth of the connection he felt to her.
Until then, I would be satisfied if only I could hold you with my own arms again.
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She firmly believed that, but she'd never believed it more than she did in the moment when he finally put into words what he'd wanted to say for a long time. She wanted nothing more than to throw her arms around him and kiss him again, taken surprise by the intensity of her happiness. She'd known all of this, at least on some level. It was still made her heart race.
I love you, too.
And she did. Enough to give up normality, enough to choose the night over the day and enough to know that, when the time was right, she'd say yes.
That was the admission that the goddess had been waiting for. In the end, the spell ended just as suddenly and smoothly as it had started.
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The moment of happiness Goliath felt at Elisa's confession was cut short as a sudden, brief absence of presence - absence of ANYTHING - overtook him. Being without body entirely was a chill and empty sensation.
Then he felt his own heart beating again, and opened his eyes, sitting up as quickly as he could to make sure everything was back in its proper order. There were his hands, with the claws he had come to miss so much, clenching and unclenching at his command, as they should. He could feel his wings again, to his great relief. He stood, glad to stand at his own height again, to feel his own familiar strength.
Returning to his sleeping body had left him with a brief blankness of feeling, but that blankness was short-lived. A smile spread across his face as he turned to Elisa again, a great warmth building deep inside him as he reached for her to pull her into his arms.
He had declared his love and his intentions, and she had reciprocated. Now that they were again autonomous and in their proper forms, the only thing still wrong with this scenario was that she was not in his embrace yet.
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“Welcome back, big guy,” she said, stepping into his arms and noting just how much she'd missed being able to do something so simple.
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"It's good to be back."
It was good to enjoy, so acutely, the simple rightness of being in his own body. It was better to enjoy that with Elisa nearby, knowing that she was as relieved as he was. He lingered on his satisfaction at being able to hold her again, at knowing that anything that wanted to harm her would have to face him first.
He didn't linger long. He hadn't forgotten her parting desire to kiss him, and he would be all too glad to return the favor. Kissing was a human custom, not a gargoyle one, but Goliath was prepared to become accustomed to it.
"Our fellow inflicted deserve some privacy." He tucked her hair behind her ear, letting the edges of his claws graze her skin gently. "Let's go home."
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“Good idea,” she agreed, though she lingered for a moment longer. She remembered her desire to kiss him and felt it just as strongly as before, eager to celebrate their return to normal and the fact that she had finally admitted her feelings. But public displays of affection weren’t really her thing. They deserved privacy as much as the others did.
Impulsively, she jumped up, arms around his neck, to give him a quick kiss on the corner of his mouth. Then she took his hand to head back to the castle.
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Unlike the last time she'd surprised him this way, he wasn't moments from turning to stone, and the effect of the kiss on him was mostly to make him want to give her one in return now that he could. But the kiss was all the more significant because Goliath knew, better now than he had before, that public displays of affection were not Elisa's thing. And as much as everyone around them was engaged in their own matters, this was still a public venue.
They had a whole castle to themselves (mostly to themselves) where he could tell her just how much he was looking forward to getting used to this human custom. He squeezed her hand gently, still smiling as he walked with his beloved back to the home they shared.