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Their love is dark, it’s danger, it’s fear. It’s cold stones and warm kisses, it’s embraces in the dark and stealing touches in empty corridors. It’s strong like her and gentle like him, it’s ancient, deep, branched beneath the walls of a long gone castle. It’s lights in a tower and fireflies in the sky. It’s in every held breath, in every skipped heartbeat.
They’re alone when she whispers “I love you”, alone when he wipes tears from under her eyes. She is just a girl when she lets him hold her in the night, only sheets to cover their bodies, only fire to light up their skins. It’s forbidden, but it never feels wrong.
And when she needs to leave, she takes a part of him with her.
And when they meet again, it’s her, him, and a secret; a secret that has his eyes and her smile.
He never calls him “father”, but he knows. Oh, he knows. He realizes it in the way he stares at him, in the way they laugh together, and in those moments, when their eyes shine together in a dance of blue flames, she wonders how can’t anyone see it.