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Sender ID: paradisea (Kaveh)
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Subject: !!!
Warnings: ridiculous spousal bragging

[The camera feed opens up to stunning view of an island. The cameraperson is standing near a grotto into which a relatively short waterfall feeds, creating a glittering mist over the pond. It pans, in a hand too excited to hold it entirely steady, over the lush greenery, showing a gently rolling hill that flattens out into a plain. Mehrak can be seen zipping about, scanning the area and placing markers about the island, though what they'll become is anyone's guess.]

Look at this.

[Kaveh's voice is shaking with pure unadulterated glee and maybe a little bit of tears, but he turns the camera until he finds his target--Alhaitham, a distance away, who seems to be communicating something to Mehrak.]

This ridiculous man bought me an island.

[Has your spouse bought you a whole-ass island? no? then kaveh's got the superior husband.]

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[Holding hands is really par of the course between them at this point, though it doesn't stop how novel it still feels for Alhaitham, even after all this time. Such a simple, often overlooked thing, and yet...

He keeps their hands tangled together as they make their way up to the top, clearly content even with the way Kaveh keeps stopping to look around. There's nothing about that for him to be annoyed about, especially when its because of Kaveh being so obviously excited. He's always enjoyed seeing his senior being so completely in his element.]

You're free to come here whenever you want. [He says after Kaveh's musing to himself.] That's typically one of the benefits of being the owner of this place.

[Yeah so he's being a little sassy here, but you know. He just can't help it.]

Oh? You'll actually let me up for it? How gracious.

[Kaveh snorts a bit, but he falls quiet, leaning into Alhaitham as he looks out over the view. He has so many ideas, he can hardly wait to put them to work...]

...It's not the same as going home. But I'll make it feel as close as I can.

[Alhaitham lets out a huff, but doesn't retaliate for once. Instead he lets go of the other's hand in order to slide his arm around the back, pulling Kaveh flush against his side so that they can feel the warmth of each other as Kaveh leans into him.]

... [He's quiet for a while as he looks at the view himself, Kaveh's promise still echoing in the air. There's no denying the fact that one of the other reasons he'd picked this place was because all the greenery reminded him of Sumeru, and the truth is that he misses it just as much as Kaveh. His husband's presence makes being here far more bearable... but they can both agree that it's still not the same as being home.]

...Mmn. [He finally breaks his silence with a hum, giving Kaveh's hip a squeeze as he exhales and turns, looking at Kaveh—his husband, his mirror, his better half—with all the love and affection he's ever felt in that one, single moment.] I know you will.

[Because, in spite of that, despite everything... home may be back in Teyvat, in Sumeru, in the city where his house is, but it is also here, with Kaveh, in this place where they did not choose to come. But they have chosen each other, and perhaps in the end that is what matters the most.]

Edited 2025-01-11 06:16 (UTC)

You'll have a bigger library than at home, though.

[Kaveh laughs a bit, pressing his temple against Alhaitham's. The home in Sumeru city...it's comfortable, and he knows Alhaitham isn't likely to want to change it. But with proper renovations...that building was never meant to be a residence, but Kaveh could fix it...

...wouldn't that be nice? He'll build a house here, designed for their lives here, but he'll dream about making them a home made just for them in Sumeru City...]

Considering the fact that countless worlds seem to pass through here, it only makes sense for there to be more literature to keep.

[Teyvat has a lot of things, but in the end it is still just one world. This place, however, is far more than that. And there are good things about it as well as bad, but the important thing is that they are managing, the best that they can.

He gives Kaveh's hand a squeeze, eyes looking across the horizon as he feels the warmth of the sun, and of his husband next to him. It's times like these where its almost hard to remember that they were little more than estranged strangers to each other not so long ago—a year is not that long of a time, after all. But what they've managed to build here, together and for each other... he knows he will fight with everything he has to keep it, gods or powers above be damned. He will fight destiny and fate itself if he has to, if that is what it takes to keep these memories that he now has.]

Kaveh. [He murmurs, after a long period of silence, his eyes still fixed on the horizon that's spread beyond them. And regardless of if his senior does turn around to look at him, he continues on speaking.] I love you.

[There are many other things he can tack to that, countless declarations and feelings and everything else that all the words of Teyvat and even other worlds will not be enough to express entirely. So he will stick with those three words that Kaveh knows best, the words that he knows his senior had once waited so patiently for him to say—and he will say it again and again, as many times as it takes, until everything that he wants to impart is finally understood in their entirety.]

I love you.

[Kaveh responds to it easily now, eyes bright and shining with it, and he tugs gently at his husband's hand to pull it up to his lips, pressing a kiss right along the rings on their fingers.

It occurs to him that this time last year, he'd been moving them into the house on Eltrut, still in denial of what Alhaitham's presence meant to him. Now...he'll build them a home, for just the two of them, to serve until they're returned where they belong.]

[Alhaitham turns around to look at Kaveh when he feels that tug on his hand, watching as his husband brings it up in order to plant a kiss onto the ring that he wears there. The ring which Kaveh made, to symbolize their union and their choice to be with each other for the rest of their lives.

It's almost strange to think now how not so very long ago things were so vastly different between them, when they were still split apart by an endless chasm that neither of them seemed to know how to cross. But that distance is no longer there, and he wakes up everyday now with Kaveh's warmth in his arms and his love in his chest. The only thing better than that is being able to do it back in the place where they truly belong... but until then this, too, is good enough for him.

He reaches over to take Kaveh's other hand in turn, bringing it up to his own lips so that he can also plant a kiss over the rings that his senior wears, returning the gesture with his own. Even if Kaveh already knows it Alhaitham will continue to say the things that he wants to express. Much like how the sky is blue and the grass is green, he will always love Kaveh until his very last breath.]

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