Help me out before I drown
Save me now before I give up
”Wish”
His words die on his lips, unable to continue, as something takes hold of him. Something that infiltrates the layers of flesh, muscle, and bone as it reaches into him. Searches for something. He has never felt power like this before and he can feel Oceane’s essence in it, something gentle yet firm, that softens some of the sharp edges of this raw magic. Her compassion helps ease the pain of it but not completely.
It assaults him, this wish, as it storms into the cavern in his chest. It pries back the doors to gaze at that crystal heart that glistens just beyond. It suspends there, silent and empty. A vapid, heavy, cracked thing. He can’t stop the groan that escapes him when the wish doesn’t pause, grasping the hollow glass vessel that would be better off as a paper weight. He can still feel Oceane against him, supporting him as surely as he supports her as the power of her magic overtakes them both.
Prodding fingers graze the edges of the crack, that familiar ache returning as his eyelid flutters and closes, his breath coming fast and hot against her neck as he grits his teeth against the overwhelming feeling that follows. It hesitates for just a moment, testing the crevice made from his heartbreak. He breathes in, he breathes out, and the magic plunges through the fracture as glass begins to melt away. It’s a pain like raw white-hot fire and he stumbles away from her if only to spare her from falling beneath him. He nearly goes to his knees but somehow manages to stay standing, perhaps some strength from the bear who also roars in agony for they have always shared the same heart. As veins and arteries reattach themselves and the shattered thing that his heart turns into something new that had been hidden just beneath a glass surface.
The crystal drips clear puddles as it melts away and disappears completely.
He inhales sharply.
His heart beats for the first time.
The first time in years.
His breath comes ragged as a pulse once again thrums through his body, a wild rhythmic beat that tries to remember what sound it had made before. His head hangs low and heavy as he tries to shake the fragments of pain that lingers like an invisible ghost. She is there, beautiful twilight magical thing that she was, tired and leaning into him. Mumbling his name and he instinctively wraps himself around her on unsteady legs, his neck wrapping around hers as they stabilize each other. “I know.” He pants, his voice hoarser then normal. It takes him a moment to feel it, the way his heart beats against her chest. The way it misses a beat when he breathes her in, that strange sensation he had never been able to figure out now morphing into something more familiar. Something he had forgotten.
“It’s back.” He can’t believe it and it shows in his voice, something like shock and bewilderment, happiness and disbelief, peppered with guilt and a thousand other emotions as his heart starts to feel again. ” I… I can feel it.” He slowly removes himself from their entanglement, the gold flecks of his eye bright as he arches his neck and tilts his head to look down. The glowing X still remained, branded in the once burnt flesh. It was no longer a warning sign but now a mark... A clue that lead to treasure beneath the chestnut map of his pelt. His muzzle brushes over the raised skin there, feeling the organ that beats steadily beneath. He slowly looks to her, looks at this brilliant angel of a woman, and the moment he meets that warm honey gaze (like coming home after being lost at sea) he becomes her man (her bear), through and through. For as long as the heart continued to beat in his chest, he was completely and utterly hers in whatever way she would have him.
Ledger
@[Oceane]
