Archive of Our Own

Settle down with me
Cover me up
Cuddle me in

With having to deal with so much- Emilia, moving to the States, leaving everything and everyone she loved behind, to a place she didn’t completely understand, to people she didn’t completely understand, and a broken heart along the way,- Adam, dealing with problems with the people he’d spent his life with, his highs and lows, and a wife that never really was, and one too many fights because he drunk his pain away- both of them found comfort in each other, asking for nothing more than just for someone to be there.

Lie down with me
Hold me in your arms

They were both on his floor, on the plush beige carpet by his bed, too tired, too angry, too broken to even make it to his bed. She was in his arms, more or less, it was more like they were holding each other, clinging on to dear life.

Your heart's against my chest
Lips pressed to my neck
I've fallen for your eyes
But they don't know me yet

Emilia can feel Adam’s heart vibrate with her own, just there, beating for the mere reason to exist. They’re physically and emotionally connected, and they feel more connected to another person than ever before. Adam presses his lips to her hair, then her temple, cheeks, and really anywhere he can find, and Emilia lets him. Because in this moment, they both need it, and maybe after too. They fall for each other just a little bit more, but they’re incapable of feeling that much love, and incapable of showing that much love, isn’t that what everyone before said?

And the feeling I forget
I'm in love now

The love they feel for each other – if they dare call it that – is so strong, so much, that it almost unreal, and they may even forget it, forget how powerful and unbearable and wonderful it was.

Kiss me like you wanna be loved
Wanna be loved
Wanna be loved

So they express it the way the best way they can – a kiss. A kiss that has so much want, lust, longing, and desire filled in it, but is also filled with paper promises, feelings never mentioned before, and even though they feel incapable of it, to prove that they need to just be loved, nothing more, nothing less.

This feels like I've fallen in love
Fallen in love
Fallen in love

And even though, they can’t put a name to the emotions rising in them, they think that they may add up to one simple feeling, one that everyone wants and longs to feel – love. Love in its truest and rawest form.

Settle down with me And I'll be your safety You'll be my lady A promise of tomorrow, a promise of a relationship, a bond that the both of them have always wanted but never really gotten.

I was made to keep your body warm
But I'm cold as, the wind blows
So hold me in your arms

Even though he’s supposed to be there for her, to be her rock, he’s so broken and he can’t be what she wants him to be. But that’s okay, and she’ll be there for him right now, because she knows that he’ll be there for her when the time comes, and that’s enough for now.

Yeah I've been feeling everything
From hate to love
From love to lust
From lust to truth
I guess that's how I know you

They think of how they knew each other, how they couldn’t stand the sight of each other, him being too cocky and her being a little too confident for his taste. But the heart wants what the heart wants, and soon they found themselves losing their breaths, counting down the days when they could get to see each other, and wanting each other, needing each other so bad it hurt, and eventually understanding each other enough.

So hold you close
To help you give it up

So they give each other everything they’ve got – emotionally, physically, every way humanly possible, to help each other get to where they want to be, where they should be – and yeah its gonna be hard, but they’re worth it, so they’ll love & love & love each other until they feel whole.

This feels like I've fallen in love
Fallen in love
Fallen in love

And maybe, just maybe, they might even call it love.