l i g h t n i n g . s t a t e

lightning state
[by victoria p.]

Rating: Adult

Summary: It begins with a storm, your life and the weather.

Notes: first line from Rana. OMG favorite first line of all time!

Date: October 7, 2004

It begins with a storm, your life and the weather.

The big black dog arrives on your doorstep, and you let him in, pale eyes shining in the lightning that provides the only illumination, in contrast to the matte black of his dirty fur.

Another flash of lightning and he is a man, tall and gaunt and haunted, but the eyes are still the same pale grey, shining in that thin face.

You embrace, and the current arcs between you, a storm deferred for too many years, now unleashed and easily outstripping the one outside your windows.

He is tired and dirty, you are careworn and sleepy, but it doesn’t matter. In the brief flashes of light, you can pretend no time has passed, and you are young and strong and steadfast in the belief that you can change the world.

You press your mouth to his, breathing him in, hungry for the air he breathes, taken from you so long ago. You breathe him in and feel alive again, where for so long you merely existed, and you will do everything you can to keep him close, safe, yours. You will remember your mistakes and try not to make them again.

He pushes forward and you stumble back, knees against the sofa, and pull him down with you, an awkward tangle of too thin limbs jostling together in unfamiliar planes and angles. And then he shifts one way, and you the other, and oh-- You click together like two pieces of a puzzle, cut apart but always meant to be rejoined.

The familiar slide of skin on skin, hot, slick and hard as you rub against each other, desperately straining for that one eternal moment when your too, too sullied flesh falls away and you are nothing but lightning and pleasure.

The moment comes, and passes like the rain, and you lie together quietly, the air pregnant with water and love, unwilling to move, until you fall asleep, replete.

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