She holds Mina close, licking the words from her lips, sharing her breath. That this has always been inevitable is something she can't deny now and she feels a fool for having wasted so many years, for having let so many opportunities slip away from them. Vanessa wonders how much suffering could have been averted if she'd been as bold as she always believed herself to be, or perhaps it would have changed nothing at all except in the specifics of her agony at their separation.
"I should have been brave enough for both of us, my Mina." And so she tries to be now as she pulls her closer, hand on her waist, sliding down to her hip, remembering every line of a body she's always known.
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Date: 2014-09-16 02:45 am (UTC)She holds Mina close, licking the words from her lips, sharing her breath. That this has always been inevitable is something she can't deny now and she feels a fool for having wasted so many years, for having let so many opportunities slip away from them. Vanessa wonders how much suffering could have been averted if she'd been as bold as she always believed herself to be, or perhaps it would have changed nothing at all except in the specifics of her agony at their separation.
"I should have been brave enough for both of us, my Mina." And so she tries to be now as she pulls her closer, hand on her waist, sliding down to her hip, remembering every line of a body she's always known.