Promise me

Writers: Eimi, Paula
Date Posted: 1st June 2006

Characters: Birigundi, Rigella
Description: Birigundi ends up comforting Rigella.
Location: Dragonsfall Weyr
Date: month 12, day 2 of Turn 3
Notes: Follows "Join me (in bed)".

Birigundi

Rigella just laid there, her mind empty, filled with soft warm haze and her body was wonderfully relaxed and satiated.

Birigundi lay on his back, his arm curled under her head, looking up at the weyr's stone ceiling as he caught his breath. He was pretty sure she had forgot her troubles for a while. Shards, he couldn't think of _anything_ at the moment except how long before they could do it again.

A memory surfaced to Rigella's conscious mind. She wondered if she would again be unceremoniously dumped out of bed and laughed at. But the she remembered, this time it was her bed, and she could choose how long he would stay there. She curled bit closer to him. It was nice having a warm body next to hers. For some reason, she felt tears gathering to her eyes.

With a pleased sigh, Birigundi turned his head to look at her, but her face didn't look nearly as satisfied as his own. "Hey now," he whispered as he reached his other hand over to touch her face. "What's wrong, Rigella?"

"I don't know," the healer admitted, trying to wipe the tears before they fell. "It's ok, Rigella." He pulled her closer. Shards, but he hoped it wasn't _him_! But he supposed that even sex would not have been able to shove everything aside. "You can cry if you like."

Rigella pressed her face against his chest and wept quietly.

Birigundi sighed as he ran his fingers through her hair, her tears dampening his skin. He had gotten so carried away in it all, he forgot why he had been invited. This was not supposed to be some glorious night of sex between two people attracted to each other. Rigella had invited him to come because she needed comfort and distraction, and he had agreed out of curiosity and his own libido screaming at him to find company for the night. Her vulnerability and desperation had only turned him on more. But, now as beads of tears of tears clung to him, he felt a twinge of shame for thinking so selfishly.

Rigella's tears run out eventually and she got herself under control.
"Sorry about that," she said with subdued voice and rose into a sitting position. She tried to dry his chest with the bedsheet's corner.

He rested his hand on her knee. "Do you want to talk about it?"

"I miss my daddy so much," Rigella said with a quiet, barely audible voice. "Even if he was hundreds of miles away, just knowing that he was there, live and well and healing people..." her voice got choked again.

Birigundi didn't know what to say. He had been too young to remember if he missed his father after he died. Now he could only imagine what it would be like for him to lose his mother. Shards, it would tear him apart to think that he could never see her face again. Though he couldn't imagine the grief Rigella was feeling, he hoped he could at least offer her a bit of comfort. He patted the bed beside him. "Come on and lay down with me a while. It's all right."

Rigella obeyed and settled back to his side. The warmth of his body was somewhat easing the loneliness she had been feeling lately.

He wrapped his arms around her, gently rubbing her back, tucking her head under his chin. One thing Birigundi couldn't stand was to see a girl cry. "You'll probably always miss him, but I promise it won't hurt this bad forever."

"Are you sure? Can you promise that to me?" Rigella murmured.

"Yes," he nodded against her head. "Because that's what my mother told me about losing my father. She'll always miss him, but the pain in the start was the worst. 'It will never go away,' she said, 'but at least now I can remember how to breathe'."

"Promise me that," Rigella whispered again and wormed little closer to him.

Birigundi kissed the top of her head softly. "I promise."

Last updated on the June 1st 2006

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