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All Shadow Milk Cookie could focus on was the feeling of Eternal Sugar’s soft, warm hand resting in his as she led him through the garden. How was he even supposed to focus on anything else? The bounce of her shimmering pink curls as she dragged him along was entirely mesmerizing. The way other Cookies’ smiles lit up when they saw her mirrored his own feelings; right now she was his Bringer of Happiness just as much, if not more, than the rest. He had never known her graciousness like this before.
Shadow Milk ears pricked as he picked up on Eternal Sugar’s faint humming. She was very pleased now, and for the first time since “corruption”, someone else’s happiness made him happier himself.
“I think…” she contemplated, “I think we should go to another place, my love~” The nickname made his heart jump. “My chambers are too.. claustrophobic. There are some lovely clouds above us now, that are much more comfortable and private, if you wish to go?”
All Shadow Milk could muster was a nod as he swallowed hard. Eternal Sugar giggled, then flapped her wings, sending a gust of air directly into Shadow Milk’s face as the two flew up to a heavenly, almost indescribably soft purple cloud.
When Eternal Sugar finally pulled Shadow Milk up, the two tumbled and collapsed onto the cloud, bringing forth a fit of giggles from them both. Eternal Sugar grabbed Shadow Milk’s face, and with her long fingernails digging into his skin, planted a gentle kiss on his lips.
Shadow Milk sputtered for a second as Eternal Sugar looked away seemingly bashfully, but with a knowing smile on her face. He then took a hold of her and kissed her again, a little bit harder. More passionate. Making up for everything he meant to do in the past and never acted on.
Eternal Sugar willingly gave in to the kiss, entangling her fingers in the ends of Shadow Milk’s long hair as he lightly rested his hand on her shoulder, then her cheek. They smiled against each other, breathed with each other, connected in such a way that they knew it was right. Her lips were so, *so* soft, and tasted of the sweetest sugars. Shadow Milk felt he could stay here forever, wrapped in the embrace of this beautiful woman. If he didn’t have anything else to do, if he was just an unimportant, menial Cookie… at this moment, he thought he really could stay in his love’s paradise forever.
“What if…” Eternal Sugar spoke, gently pulling away. The intoxications of her saccharine kiss lingered still in the warmth of his mouth and coursed through all of Shadow Milk’s veins, but he felt the cold emptiness of her body heat not mingling as closely with his own. “What if… this didn’t have to end?”
“I would…” Shadow Milk stopped himself before he said something he might regret later. Despite his love for her, he knew her tricks. “I… don’t think I could. I still have my own domain, my own children, remember Sugar?”
Eternal Sugar sadly laughed. “No, I know… I know you would never fall for any of those methods. What I meant was, what if *we* didn’t have to end? What we had in the Faerie Kingdom Tree… It meant something, *was* something, was it not? But then you freed everyone, and… we split. Incompleted. Am I correct?”
Shadow Milk was silent for a while. “...I thought so, too.”
“What I mean is, can’t we be together more often while still remaining on our own? Like I did with Mystic Flour?”
“...Like dating? Like what Black Sapphire has with his boyfriends or girlfriends or whatever?”
“...Yeah. Like dating. See where things take us.”
Eternal Sugar took his hand, rubbing her thumb on Shadow Milk’s palm while he rested his head on her shoulder. Maybe that wouldn’t be so bad.
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(A/N: AAH IM SO SORRY FOR ALL THE MISCHARACTERIZATION AND IM SORRY FOR HOW LONG IT TOOK FOR SUCH A SHORT CHAPTER I PROMISE I WAS TRYING I LOVE YOU ALL TYSM FOR BEARING WITH ME)