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“Wh-What… are you really here?”
Her hand grazed gently on his cheek, stroking his by the tips of her fingers, her eyes steadily looking into his own. There was a soft glow of her blue eyes that shined sweetly though her strands of hair on her face, as she searched for an answer. He reached for her cheek and cupped it carefully, keeping his claws in check, as he gently pulled her a little closer.
“I’ve always been here.”
“… Why are you here now? What made you come to see me?”
“I’ve always wanted to see you. I never forgot about you.”
“You… didn’t?”
“No. There was just a lot to do. My heart, the cyborgs, the world, the moon, my sister. Adjusting to what I am now… I didn’t… want to hurt you.”
“… I suppose I missed you so much, I didn’t think of it all. I just wanted to be with you. So then… we both wouldn’t be… lonely.”
He stepped a little closer to her, as she stepped closer too.
“I’m sorry… I did the same with my sister too. We both did. We stood in silence. Apart, even when we lived in the same house. Apart, even when we share the same planet… I regretted that, and I shouldn’t have let it happen again. I’ve recently been better with my relationship with her, and I want to do better with you.”
Her eyes glossed a bit as her lip quivered a bit. She put her weapon in her holster and reached with her other hand to the other side of his cheek. He did the same, but rested his hand on her back.
“I’m sorry too. It was as hard for you as it was for me… My uncle, Chef, explained things to me, and I was still a little stubborn in my heart from losing some of my family members, finding you hurt… I wish I would have stood with you longer when you were hurt. I was so upset. But then even finding out you were okay I… I stood away purposely. Just to watch from a distance as I was used to. To suffer alone… I don’t want to be alone anymore…”
Her tears came down as she bit her lip slightly, turning away from him as her hands brushed down his face to his chest. His emotions weren’t much upon his face, but a rogue tear did fall from his cheek. He couldn’t see it, but felt it. Even without a heart beating in his chest, being with her, made him feel different. He could feel what he felt for her for all these years. As if his physical heart was a hindrance to what he really felt for her… that these feelings for her were beyond the physical heart…
He reached for her gently to turn her back to face him, as she was a little reluctant, but eventually turned back to him.
“I never told you, did I?”
“T-Told me what?”
“That I love you.”
Her eyes widened as she froze a moment with a silent gasp in her chest. It took another moment for her to breathe again, her cheeks a little violet as she blinked a few times and said,
“… you didn’t, and I didn’t ‘say’ it… but I love you too.”
“There’s a lot of catching up, isn’t there?”
“Y-Yes, there is.”
“Then let’s start now.”
“Huh?”
He pulled her closer as one hand was on the back of her head and the other on her back pulled her closer. She was surprised by his boldness, but her hands automatically wrapped around his neck. Her swelling blood in her cheeks wanted her to run from how high her heart beat rose, but there was no way she was going to back away now. Not when she’s where she has wanted to be for so long, and he too was not about to back away from any nerves when he finally has her so close.
After so much yearning from both sides, they could finally satiate their longing for one another. Their lips met and it could be described by both of them as a moment of heavenly bliss gifted to them after so long. After everything they fought through, and all the triumphs and trials, and waiting. A delicate moment of affection awaited them after it all, a moment of relief as they breathed softly out. She was losing her stance as she could feel her feet become a bit wobbly, whereas for him, his feet became firmly planted.
They parted once, a few strokes of breath, and then she felt him pulling her closer again. She wasn’t sure if she could handle another or her legs might become jelly, so at first she pulled one hand down on his chest and put slight pressure to stop him. But when she heard that soft growl from him that he himself did instinctively… she could barely contain her own instincts and herself. She gained some momentum from her feet as she pounced up to his lips to kiss him again. He was surprised a little at first, but melted into the kiss again. Her legs were growing weaker as she seemed to be falling down, but he held her with both hands as he kept her from falling further. Their kiss deepened a little more, and that was when he felt a fang of his puncture softly into her lip, the taste…
He pulled back as he saw her stare at him with wide eyes and a flush face of violet. She touched her lip as she saw a little trickle of her violet blood on her finger.
“I… I’m sorry. I forgot I have fangs now.”
“…”
She looked to him and saw violet on the end of his lip. A small lick on her lips and she removed what was on her own.
“It’s okay.”
“No… I’m sorry. I’m not that kind of monster. I didn’t… why… are you looking at me like that?”
She blinked sweetly with a smile spreading across her lips. Her eyes lowering to his lip and then back up at him with a slight lifting of her shoulders. He felt emotions he wasn’t sure what exactly they were, or at least he was trying to ignore them… but her approach to him as she reached towards him and rubbed her hands along his shoulders and chest…
“I love you.”
“I love you too…”
“I want to be with you.”
“I do too, but-Wait wait! What are you-“
She then leaned close to him and softly lick away the blood on his lip.
“…” His surprise made him as silent as she found to be cute.
“Do you think I fear a little blood? With how much you and I have spilled, what is a few drops for our love?”
“… you’ll be the death of me.”
“As rightfully so. We can die together.”
“… say less.”
Chef could not find his niece, nor his student for a while. But he assumed that the moment they were together again, he wouldn’t find them. For how long the two missed one another, he wouldn’t be surprised. It was nice though. Especially in finding out a few months later that he would be a great uncle.