last_adam | (no subject)

Adam's been spending a lot of time outside with Alanna, but not usually from this vantage point. He snickers a little as he watches people pass below.

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called_lioness

"...Adam," Lucy says after a moment, "I love you dearly. And our relationship has never been anything like normal, so really I suppose that would be as appropriate as anything else. But I'm not entirely certain that Caspian would agree to you marrying us." She elbows him, a little, gently, after a moment. "But you could give me away."

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last_adam

There's a pause, and a look of shock on Adam's face, and then Lucy's in another hug.

What? He's full of 'em, lately.

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called_lioness

"Is that a yes?" It's a little muffled by his shoulder, but she's grinning.

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last_adam

"YES. Of course, yes."

And he's grinning too, and pulls back to look at her a big, the grin falling just for a minute.

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called_lioness

"Good," she says calmly, kissing his cheek.

"It seems right."

Because Peter is her brother, and her High King, and she loves him, and Edmund is her brother, and she loves him, but Lucy...

Sometimes Lucy think she walked away from both of them long ago, or they walked away, or a bit of both.

But Adam is--Adam is Adam is Adam, and she'll ever love him, in a way that's only for him, and Lucy has ever walked on her own, without looking back, but...

But Adam held her hand when she needed him to. So she thinks she'd like him to hold her arm for that.

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last_adam

And he's holding her hand then, and squeezes it just a bit.

"How've you been ... aside from that?"

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called_lioness

"That's been most of it," she admits, and it's...almost true.

"--Tired."

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last_adam

"mmmm."

Adam humms and looks her over, and gets a skeptical look on his face.

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called_lioness

Lucy just looks out and over at the lake, and breathes in the grass and flowers.

"All gifts have a price. Even yours," she says finally, almost echoing Aslan's words, and for a moment
stranger things have come true
she's more there than here, despite being awake
and Adam can see what Lucy would look like at thirty years and five
and then she shrugs and looks back at him.

"I'm tired," she says again, finally.

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last_adam

Adam doesn't say anything then, he just nods, and squeezes her hands. Because sometimes sorrys aren't enough. And sometimes too many words lose their meanings. And sometimes they're not really needed.

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called_lioness

Que será, será.

"Lilly," she says, finally, "wants to throw me a bachelorette party."

Because. Sometiems you don't say sorry, and so you can't say, "It's okay," back, but you can still smile, maybe.

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last_adam

And maybe there's a smile back, even as he drops her hand and sits on the ground.

"Just so long as she doesn't want to hire me."

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called_lioness

"To do what?" warily.

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last_adam

"She keeps threatening to hire me as a stripper. Or did. I suspect that Alanna may have threatened her, because she hasn't in a while."

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called_lioness

"...Should I worry, Adam?"

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last_adam

". . . I'm not going to strip for you, Lucy. sorry."

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called_lioness

"That wasn't," she says with a face, "what I meant. I meant about her planning the party at all." She considers. "And also wanting to plan Caspian's."

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last_adam

"Be afraid. Be VERY afraid."

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called_lioness

"I was afraid of that," she sighs, mournfully, but she's still smiling.

Funny, that.

"I'll worry about it once I figure out what to do about fifty other things, I suppose."

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last_adam

"Like a dress?"

The smiles back now, and bigger.

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called_lioness

Watch her eyes get wide.

"...Oh, bugger."

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last_adam

"You can't go nude to your wedding, Lucy."

There's a laugh, then, and he nudges her.

"Much as Caspian would then be able to match you with his towels."