Love Lives Here

Writers: Clancey, Emma
Date Posted: 27th February 2009

Characters: Mai, K'reyel
Description: Mai and K'reyel share a lover's moment at the start of a new Turn.
Location: River Bluff Weyr
Date: month 13, day 29 of Turn 4
Notes: Mentioned: Mayel
Follows "While He Sleeps"

K'reyel

Mai stirred lightly as she felt K'reyel slide back into bed. As
careful as he was of not waking her - she and Mayel were still not
sleeping quite the way they should - she had felt the 'absence' of his
warmth. She thought, sleepily, as she curled toward him as he
settled again into bed, that she would always know when he wasn't
there, just as she always knew when he _was_.

One arm slipped over his bare chest and one eye opened as she regarded
her werymate. "Has he started talking back yet?" She said, in the
softest, most loving of whispers. Oh, yes, she knew her weyrmate
went to look in on Mayel sometimes. She knew, and it made her smile.
It made her smile, and turn toward the spot in the bed he left behind
to keep it warm waiting for him to return.

He always did return, you know.

"Not yet, but he's learned how to listen," came the reply, also in a soft
tone.
Mai smiled at that and nodded. "He will always remember your voice as
something he listened to from the day he was born, and that was full
of love." She raised up on an elbow and looked down at her weyrmate.
"Did you enjoy the celebration, love? It gives you a new perspective
doesn't it?"

"A new perspective, and a new turn," time to reassess things. "Your Harper
colleagues are good, the music was wonderful."

Mai smiled, a gentle, loving one. "It was good, and I enjoyed
watching you be the Weyrleader. More than I thought I would...." Her
voice trailed off contemplatively as she curled closer once more.
"I'm proud of you, my love. And yet you still find time for us...
Mayel and me.... I know its hard though, for you."

"It would be far harder without you and Mayel, and the girls. I can still be
_me_ with you all."

Mai laughed, a sweet, husky sound in the darkness. "And we would be
the first ones to remind you if your head got too big for your body,
my love. Speaking of big...." a hand trailed down his side, gently
but teasingly. "I'm not sleepy...."

"Me neither," he said, leaning over to kiss her. "And Mayel is asleep..."
"Soundly." She returned his kiss warmly, enjoying it. They had been
apart for too many months. It seemed like... turns... . The Healers
had taken such care with her after Mayel's birth, and she had found some
reluctance in his bed after he became Weyrleader. Not too much
..never too much ... they had learned their lessons as a couple too
well for tension.

"Maybe we can make another one, hmm?" She said, as she leaned into the kiss.

"We can try," he said after a moment. "And if we don't succeed, then we'll
just have to have fun trying even harder." He did love her so, and they did
have to be careful, the Healers having warned them that another pregnancy
might be as difficult. But now, he could think of nothing more satisfying
than holding, kissing and making love with the woman he loved.

Caution deserted her as she returned his kiss. Their time together was too
precious not to enjoy every moment they had, every way they could.

"I'll keep trying with you for turns, K'reyel." She managed to say before
thoughts fled.

Last updated on the February 28th 2009

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