Partners In Crime

11• So beautiful it hurts

cue the 'my so-called life' reference ;]

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The day of the wedding started almost like any other summer wedding did.

It was a beautiful, midsummer morning, the inviting glow of the sun streaking through Marina's windows. The curtains were gently floating from the breeze she'd let through last night. Faint noises of conversation bustled from outside, quiet enough to not disturb the peace in her room. But unlike most days, she was laying in bed, curled up against a warm figure. Her eyes didn't have to be open to know who it was. She knew the musky scent combined with the smell of sleep adorning the man, as she clasped around his bare torso tightly.

She shuddered in delight as the sensation of Alex's hand gripping her back made contact with her own bare skin. It was, truthfully, a terrifying concept to be close to someone so much so that legs were beginning to intertwine again. Marina was alien to the feeling even though she'd been through it multiple times.

Perhaps it was because it was Alex, someone with which this had been a long time coming.

She listened as his heartbeat sped up by her ear, the exhale he made lightly breezing over her head. It was only at that point where she realised how badly she'd been wanting to hear his heartbeat over the last seven years. His other arm was outstretched across the bed.

"How long've you been awake, darling?" he mumbled in a drowsy voice, as if only just departing the dream world.

As Marina opened her eyes and peered around the golden room, she figured he was just entering another. She realised the tobacco scent which had always hung around him was absent.

She let out a humming noise. "Long enough to hear your snoring." Her thumb caressed the point at which she held him, nudging her nose into his side. His snuff was loud, but the smile on his face was louder. He brought both of his arms around her.

She tilted her head up to look at his face for the first time that day. Messy hair falling over his forehead and basking deep in a gentle ray of sun, she couldn't imagine him as anything but Heaven sent.

"Bloody hell," he exclaimed.

"What?"

"I wanna stare at you forever, but you're so beautiful it hurts to look at you," he said gently.

Lost for words, she merely smiled and nodded sweetly.

After Alex returned the smile, she figured it was best to hide her boiling face into his torso, wrapping her legs tighter around him. He let out a few sleep-laced laughs.

"Now really, love, I'm flattered by your obsession with me, but we've got some destruction to cause today, and a bride to save." She felt his dulcet tones vibrate in his body.

The sulk in her stomach flared up at his mention of Solana.

"Do you think-do you think she'd still want us to?" Her voice wavered a bit.

He rushed to bring his hands to her jaw, holding them softly. "What do you mean? Of course she wants us to!" Their eyes were boring into each other before Marina dropped her gaze out of shame.

"But she was so angry with what I did. She hardly looked at me last night." Her babbling seemed to do nothing to the state of composure on Alex's face. He performed a similar caressing motion to her cheek.

"Listen, how long have you guys been friends? Whether she likes it or not, she invited the both of us here, so it were her execution. She knew the shit that you did was bound to happen. She's known us for too long. I'm sure if you tell her what were going on, she'd forgive you in a heartbeat," he said, one hand travelling down her neck and grasping to pull her up to him, their noses brushing.