#the act iii romance scene was too fluffy for me i need to tear it apart and make it messy and then put it all back together again

[bitchesofostwick]

wip wednesday

i've been torn away from HB for a moment to write about june and gale...oh no... (tagging @vakarians-babe @pinayelf @isayashai @captastra @vvakarians)

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“I could give you all of this,” he presses, taking her hands in his with a fire in his eyes. “I could be so much more. And not just for me—for us. For all mortals. We could have what we want, what we deserve! And I would be the one to do it. Don’t you want that?” 

Enough. She rips her hands away from his, hardly recognizing the man before her. “No,” she says, stepping back. “I don’t want this.”

“But—”

“Gale!” she shouts, not letting him continue, not this time. “I have never wanted any of this from you. I’ve tried to tell you. I’ve tried to show you. All of this—” she waves her hand, gesturing at the fabricated stardust around them. “It’s nothing like what I want. And you might know that, if you ever listened to me—if you believed me. I’d never ask this of you. But—but perhaps you’ve confused me with someone else.”