31 Jul 2000
I had many other things I should have been working on, but the muse wouldn't go away and was becoming increasingly annoying to boot. I've wanted to write this for Noin since I first heard this song.
Hope you enjoy it, C&C welcome as always.
kumiko
based on the song by Faith Hill
DISCLAIMER: All Gundam Wing characters are property of Sunrise, Bandai Visuals, Sotsu Agency, and Asahi TV. This work is not written for profit, but for entertainment purposes only.
WARNINGS: Non-yaoi, lime-to-lemon
Author's Notes: Breathe is a part of my Blue Bloods timeline, occuring after When the Morning Comes and before Someday Out of the Blue. It is set just after Endless Waltz, as Zechs and Noin are heading to Mars to begin the terraforming project. It is written in first-person, from Noin's p.o.v.
Pairing: 9+6, 6x9
Key for punctuation:
"..." - character dialogue
>...< - song lyrics
January, A.C. 197 - On route to Mars
The clear, brilliant sunlight of deep space is making its way across the wall of the sleeping berth as I lie in complete comfort, watching its progress. I've been awake the whole time, too much in awe, too stirred up to sleep and so I was witness to the slicing of our small compartment by an intense ray of golden light coming through a small window in its wall. It had drifted down, and further down until, at last, it had come to rest on the bed itself. Now the moment I've been waiting for has come and the clear light touches visual fire to your silky, pale gold hair. I catch my breath at the sight and reached a trembling hand out to touch...
> I can feel the magic floating in the air,
Being with you gets me that way.
I watch the sunlight dance across your face and I've
Never been this swept away. <
Dear God, but you're beautiful, Zechs. And somehow, having finally been with you, having known the first kisses from your lips, the first caresses from your fingers, I find, impossibly, that you are more stunning than I ever knew. I've loved you for eight years, ever since our days together at the Academy, but up until two hours ago you were really a stranger to me.
But now I know the taste of your skin and I've kissed every inch of you, haven't I? And to tell the God's honest truth, I couldn't have stopped if I'd tried. Nothing that I've ever felt for you could have prepared me for the last few hours. I had thought that being near you, simply watching you, was heaven enough for me. But there is heaven and there is heaven and being with you this way, this close is a level of paradise beyond what I could imagine.
It's just as they taught me, when I was a little girl - sometimes golden princes do ride by and sweep ladies off of their feet...
> All my thoughts just seem to settle on the breeze,
When I'm lying wrapped up in your arms.
The whole world just fades away and the only thing
I hear is the beating of your heart. <
And somehow, sweet Zechs, discovering you this way was all the more precious because our bodies became one in space. You pushed me back onto the bed and let your lips trail down my throat to where your hands cupped my breasts. Your mouth was warm and worked on me like a spell. And then as I felt you suckling, I gazed up to the porthole above the bed and saw an infinite sea of stars, and your erotic magic was making me as wide as the view from space. I've never in my life felt so utterly wanton before, and I only pray I'll get the chance to feel that way again.
> Cause I can feel you breathe, it's washing over me
And suddenly I'm melting into you
There's nothing left to prove,
Baby all we need is just to be. <
Then - oh, then, you moved up onto me, staring into my eyes as you entered me. And you were slow... so achingly slow that you made me cry out for you, to have you deeper, as deep as you could get. And you gave that to me -something that fit so perfectly inside of me that I may never feel whole again without it. You and I, my sweet man, making one body out of two.
It occurred to me then that you had finally taken your mask off. It had been gone from your beautiful face for over a year, but it didn't truly shatter until that sweet moment when our lips brushed and you whispered my name and made me cry. I hope those tears were able to show you how desperate I'd become, and how, at that moment, I needed nothing and no one in the entire universe but you... only you.
> Caught up in the touch
The slow and steady rush
Baby isn't that the way that love's supposed to be?
I can feel you breathe
Just breathe <
And then your hips began to buck. Slowly at first, making me think I was being taken by a lusty merman, everything in slow, underwater motion. You kept your lips on mine, barely touching, just a whisper of skin and your warm, ragged breath, through long, slow strokes, maddening in their intensity. Could you feel it, Zechs? Could you feel what was between us -something silky and strong? And you just felt perfect to me, my beautiful White Knight, come to take your Lady's innocence.
I trace a fingertip over the lines of your face and wonder if you'd be surprised that your were my first. And that's exactly the way I wanted it to be - the only man I ever wanted inside of me was you.
> In a way I know my heart is waking up
As all the walls come tumbling down
Closer than I've ever felt before, and I know and you know
There's no need for words right now <
Now the rhythm is deep and steady, and you devastate me, Zechs, taking me that way and staring into my eyes as if I was the answer to every question you ever asked. This is really you, the man I've known was there for so long, but was hiding from me. And now love, you used my body to pull down the final barriers between us, and a sweeter use it's never been put to. With each long stroke, with each ragged, panting breath, you revealed more of yourself. And at last I could look through your eyes and see forever opening up before me.
And you know - it's strange. Right then, at that moment, the only thing I could think of to say was, "Marry me, Zechs."
> Cause I can feel you breathe, it's washing over me
And suddenly I'm melting into you
There's nothing left to prove,
Baby all we need is just to be. <
That sweet, primitive act we were engaging in was working far too well. You were the man I'd chosen and I wanted to lay claim to you some how, just as you were so obviously laying claim to me. And dear God how I wanted it. It was almost as if you were reading my thoughts. I'd think harder... deeper... and you give it to me just like that. I remember wanting, needing a kiss desperately and that's when you leaned over me and breathed my name like a prayer before pressing your lips to mine.
We were bare to each other in so many ways, nowhere to hide in that soft bed, that fiery embrace. And now you were whimpering, desire so strong you couldn't deny it any longer. And I got to hear you beg, beg me for one last piece of my body, my soul that you hadn't yet touched. In that moment, the last barrier was broken through and felt myself opening so wide that I thought for one strange moment I might lose myself in you and never come back out again. I opened my body and my soul, and you took everything I had to give...
> Caught up in the touch
The slow and steady rush
Baby isn't that the way that love's supposed to be?
I can feel you breathe
Just breathe <
The sunlight has fled the cabin but it's left behind the sun god. He lies with sleek muscles, naked in my bed, his pale gold hair a storm across the pillow. It's too much, too much beauty, and my answering desire, so I lean over gently and whisper your name, brushing my lips over yours and tasting your breath as you sigh and awaken. A flutter of golden lashes, a flash of intense blue, and you are back again with me.
My desire is building again, and I'll have you now or die trying. This feeling inside of me is a slowly-building wave and as I run my fingers over your cheeks and lips, and tangle them in the mane of your hair, I know I'm losing control.
Your hand steals up to brush my cheek and I'm overwhelmed by the gesture. With each breath your take, you draw my breath further into you, until we're breathing as one and the universe outside fades completely from my mind.
> I can feel the magic floating in the air,
Being with you gets me that way. <
owari
(:./kumiko/bblood30)
