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[grahamcarmen]

redcrackleweek2024: Ending

word count: 446~ The end of endings

Carmen had never wanted to steal anything ephemeral.

Had never wanted to be left with bittersweetness.

And while Gray could put up some discomfort, it would have been unbearable to live as if he didn’t want more. Stay where more didn’t exist.

So the months they’d been reunited had been a balm to them both, quickly falling into the comfortable. The banter and sharing the quiet. Carmen looking behind her and seeing him ready for whatever she had planned. Gray looking in front of him and seeing Carmen ready to pull him away with her.

They had forgiven each other too quickly as was their nature and then worked to repay the hurt they’d done to each other in full. Forgiving each detail of the mess their feelings had made. Until they could honestly admit they loved each other again. Or rather still.

They had never felt so free.

They fell slowly into the new. Questions in the form of quiet soft kisses answered by fiercer surer ones. Awkwardly laughing but confidently explaining when team red caught them. Almost making the building their new home with the amount of shenanigans they got up to and new spots they had new habits of being together.

Almost.

After all the building still worked more as a headquarters and Carmen still couldn’t help jerking away from that. 

And now that she had found her mother again, learned more about the past, she had a better idea of what she thought could be a home.

Somewhere certainly but also…

Six months had passed.

And the feelings had stayed. Deepened instead of dissipating. And started to turn to a new restlessness.

One Gray wanted to end.

He handed her a bouquet of roses, ‘ love songs’.or so the chatty florist had told him.

“You don’t mind the color?”

“Blue roses don’t exist?” She teased

“They do, they just require some tinkering.” Even if someone else had already done the tinkering for him, he’d wanted to give her real roses.

Carmen buried her nose into the roses soft petals, letting out a sound of delight when she saw the mauve color change to a grayish purple.

“Thanks.” It was nice to be on the receiving end of gifts sometimes.

“Then I have a question to go with it.” He said, the nervousness that had been slowly ebbed away from their time sharing affection for each other spiking back up for hopefully the last time.

More , more. He still wanted more.

Carmen beamed at him, anxious to give him the response.

To give the new feelings their final shape, to send them to their home.

“Go ahead.”

Gray looked at her and felt calmer and hopeful. She knew.

“Please ask.”

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[cemeterything]

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