I awake at the sound of howling, on a cold, frigid shoreline. The icy wind blowing snow flecks into my stark black hair.
"H-how, how did I get here?" I think, as I open my dark steel eyes, and see the frigid and frozen trees. I look up, a forebodin...
Several clanks and bangs come from the workshop as I watch a little Ronan try and crawl about the place, I am making a small set of clothes for him, because at the moment he's in nothing but his cloth diaper.
I dyed my clothes black, and Aphmau's a faded Purple, his are going to be a bright red, he may be more visible that way, but at least we can see him if we wandered off.
I stitch cloth and pelt together and make a tiny little black hood for him, once I'm done, I slip him into the clothes, he looks warm, and he enjoys the hood over his head.
I pick him up and he giggles, babbling away in his own language, I tickle his belly and blow a raspberry on his stomach, he laughs and squirms, his legs kicking the air.
"Who's Daddy's little man? You are! Yes you are!" He laughs and giggles some more as I lay him on the couch and start playing with his tiny feet and hands.
We've lost him ladies and gents, we've lost him.
Shut up, he's my son.
Yeah, we've noticed.
Who's 'we' we're the only two here?
No, Your just crazy.
I roll my eyes and continue to play with my son, who tugs on my finger playfully, he looks into my still slightly blue left eye and cocks his head in curiosity.
"Yeah, Daddy had a little accident, but I'm fine now." He pulls my thumb, his hair had grown quite long, and his first little tooth has started to come in, around half a year old, he was crawling and trying to learn to talk, failing of course.
Ronan starts to get agitated, he probably needs a nap as I fed him only twenty minutes ago, so I climb upstairs with him in my arms and lay him in the crib, but he still tries to fight sleep.
"Ronan~, Go to sleep little man, we'll play more when you wake up." I play with his longish hair and he slowly goes to sleep, and after a good five minutes I tear away from his crib and jump down the hatch.
I open the door to the workshop and am hit with the heat of hot furnaces and the smell of burning coal.
In the middle of the small workshop is a crossbow, except at a much larger scale, and with a lever in the back for a trigger, she's working on cross bar, it's going to take a while by the looks of it.
"How's it going in here?" I ask and she looks up from her work, she's covered in soot and sweating, but I still think she looks beautiful.
" Something is being done, I'm not sure what, but it's something." She sighs, she looks exhausted, I take her hand and gently pull her into me, and she snuggles into my chest.
"You can fall asleep on me, if you want." She smiles into my chest and tiptoes to be somewhat eye level with me.
"That sounds nice...." She kisses my nose before turning around and stepping back to look at her handiwork.
"It's not a canon, but it'll have to do, where's Ronan by the way?" She asks and we walk out of the workshop after putting out the fire.
"In his crib, asleep. He's only what? Five? Six months old? He's grown so much." I rub the door of Aphmau's face and look into those caramel colored eyes that pulled me in from the moment I saw them.
"So has someone else......" She grins up at me and I give her a loving smile, I needed to do something to prove that I loved her, and that I was always going to be there.
"Oh? Who?" She kisses me briefly and blissfully before pulling back and smiling until her eyes twinkled.
"You silly." She giggles, and I suddenly get an idea, and I excuse myself.
I run up the ladder and grab a crystal and some metal, I sprint back down the ladder and ask quickly for her not to follow me.
I twist the metal and make it into a ring, a small one, I know what size her finger is, somehow, but I'm not the best jeweler.
I leave a hole at the top of the ring and melt the crystal in top of it, I make a vines design around the crystal of the ring, and it looks pretty good. For my first time making something like this.
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(Raw aquamarine ring, closest thing I could find to what I wanted, 600$, lol, he made it free.)
I put it in a tiny wooden box and walk back into the living room, where Aphmau's waiting on the couch.
"Oh? Are you finally going to tell me why you locked yourself inside the workshop for two hours?" She smirks, and I hold out the tiny wooden box, my hands are shaking.
Come on Lycan, you've done this before.
"Aphmau, I've come to the realization that we don't remember taking our vows in our marriage." I start, trying to stay as calm as possible but freaking out from the inside.
" Aaron? Are you......" Tears start to well up in her eyes and I open the box to the crystal ring, I smile nervously.
"When we get back, I want to renew our vows, so, I'm going to ask this for the second time in my life." I get on one knee and present the ring with my nervous smile.
"Will you marry me, Again?" She stays silent, and I see her fist flex, her Implant glowing and once it stops she looks me straight in the eyes.
"No."
My heart shatters, and tears start dripping down my face and onto the ring that I slowly put back into my pocket.
"I-I see. W-Well, I-" She throws her body onto me, hugging me tightly and crying, I'm taken aback.
"No way I could say No!" I smile and start sobbing out of spite for myself, and Aphmau notices.
"Why are you crying?" She asks and I start laughing and crying at the same time.
"I-I thought you said No." She gasps and slips the ring on her own finger, before continuing to hug me.
"Oh, Aaron, I would never." I stand up and flop us both on the couch, my tears quickly drying up and replaced by pure joy.
"I know. Guess I just got dunked on." I chuckle weakly, still trying to wipe my eyes."
"Oh, Yes you did Aaron." Ronan starts crying from upstairs, not caring of the sentimental moment going on below him, he wanted attention.
