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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote in [community profile] fandomweekly2025-06-14 06:37 pm

[#262] Forever And Always (FAKE)



Theme Prompt: #262 – Soulmates
Title: Forever And Always
Fandom: FAKE
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 681
Summary: It may not have been love at first sight, but something had pulled Dee and Ryo irresistibly together.




Sprawled on their bed late one night, Ryo’s head resting comfortably on his chest, Dee was idly playing with his lover’s thick mop of honey-coloured hair as he waited for sleep to claim him, enjoying the softness of the strands as they slid smoothly through his fingers.

Ryo sighed. “I need a haircut.”

“Nah, you’re perfect just like this.” Dee tugged gently, a lazy smile curving his lips.

“I can hardly see where I’m going!”

“So what? You’re not goin’ anywhere right now, are ya?”

“Well, no, but I wasn’t planning on getting a haircut in the middle of the night anyway. Nowhere’s open.”

Dee snorted. “Always so practical,” he teased, before falling silent for long enough that Ryo thought he must have drifted off to sleep, even though Dee’s fingers were still rhythmically combing through his hair. It felt good. Then Dee spoke again. “D’you believe in love at first sight?”

That startled a laugh from Ryo, the question was so unexpected. “No! And neither do you! Lust at first sight, yes, I’d accept that, but you can’t expect me to believe you fell in love with me the moment we met. I know it wasn’t love for me either, not at the start. I was… attracted to you, I can admit that now, but it wasn’t love, not for either of us.”

“Okay, yeah, I guess you’re right. ‘Bout the lust part too, but ya can’t blame me for that. Best looking dude ever walked into the precinct, and I get partnered with him? Better believe there was lust involved. Still is, but ya probably already know that.”

“Hornball.” Ryo prodded his lover in the ribs, making Dee squirm.

“Hey! No fair!”

Ryo twisted around so he could look at his partner. “What’s with all the love at first sight talk anyway?”

“I don’t know, I just… lyin’ here with you, guess I just got to thinkin’ how right this feels, you and me, together. It’s felt that way, for me at least, since… I don’t know when. Before you finally stopped livin’ in denial land, for sure. Every time I said I loved ya, I meant it.”

“I know you did. It just… took me a while to get my head straight.”

“Yeah, I know that, and it’s fine, ‘cause we got over that hump in the end, but…”

“What?”

“Maybe it’s sappy, but I can’t help feelin’ we were always meant to be. That it wasn’t just chance brought us together, more like fate, or destiny.” Dee shifted, propping himself up on one elbow to look deep into Ryo’s eyes. “Y’know, JJ used to go on and on about how he and I were soulmates, meant to be together, and he was wrong ‘cause we weren’t, that was all in his head. But you and me? Yeah, I can believe that. If there’s one person in the universe I’m abso-frickin’-lutely meant to spend the rest of my life with, it’s you. No doubts about that. There’s no one else ever come close to makin’ me feel the way you do. I don’t know if soulmates are real, but if they are, then you’re mine. And I don’t care how crazy you think that sounds.”

“I don’t think it sounds crazy. I mean, I don’t know if I believe in soulmates, and maybe it doesn’t matter, either way. What I DO know is that I don’t want to be with anyone but you. And maybe in the end that’s all soulmates are, two people who find in each other exactly what they’ve been looking for, even if they didn’t know what that was until they met. Does that make sense? I’m not awake enough to tell.”

“Yeah, babe, it makes perfect sense.” Dee leaned down to kiss his lover. “And I’m yours, body and soul, for as long as I live.”

“Me too,” Ryo agreed.

It might not have been love at first sight, but in the end, it had grown into something better, something that would last as long as they both lived, and maybe even longer.


The End

 

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