The premise of the meme is simple. Two characters, lovers, have been separated for a time. How long is up to you, as is the reason for the separation. Was it unwilling - an imprisonment, a required journey - or because of a choice one of the characters made? The reason may, of course, color the reunion, and somebody may be pretty miffed, with good reason. Still, the theme is the same: intimacy after being apart.
This meme is mostly geared towards being a smut meme, but nobody will judge you for just doing so heavy fluff.
[ It had been a long time since Leo had last seen Niles, and with good reason— around a month ago, after he had been sent off on a mission, Leo received a message that he had been killed in action. It was hard news to swallow (and, even now, a part of him doesn't wholly believe it), but time made it a little easier to deal with.
So, imagine his surprise when Odin knocked on the door to his private chambers one evening, his usually over-the-top personality subdued. Of course, that made perfect sense when he told Leo that, somehow, against all odds, Niles wanted to see him. He had to bite the inside of his cheek to keep himself in check, even as he told Odin to send him up so they could speak within the privacy of his room; whatever conversation he was about to have with Niles, they weren't going to have it in the common area of the castle. After all, Niles had... a lot of explaining to do, and that was probably putting it lightly.
When Niles inevitably makes it up to his room, the tension in the room should be noticeable. Leo is standing, both arms crossed, and his discomfort is written all over his face— his eyebrows are drawn together, and his mouth is turned down into a frown. Most people might think of this like a happy reunion, but he's feeling troubled more than anything else. ]
She's been biting her nails again. It's Friday morning and eight of her ten nails are bitten down to the cuticle and the last two are next on the list to be destroyed if she doesn't wear a new hole in their floor first from all the pacing. Her dad's downtown at the station. The Chief of Police can't very well leave the station in the middle of a massive clean up effort after his son-in-law more or less destroyed several city blocks. Not that many people know that fact, or that the Flash's wife is the one who wrote the front page article about it, hours after her husband disappeared.
Linda has the twins for the weekend. Wally's with Oliver and the rest of Team Arrow trying to keep the streets safe from looters. Cisco is muttering to himself (probably) at STAR labs to find a way to get Barry back. Or figure out where he went in the first place. And Iris is at home. Pacing. Worrying. Ruining a manicure.
He's been gone before. There have been entire weeks where she hasn't heard from him because he's busy saving the world and it's Barry. It's who he is. They make it work. But those times, she always had at least a vague idea of where he was. In Star City or Gotham or purposely trying to travel to another Earth. This is different. This is he was here one moment and gone the next. This involves the Reverse Flash and it turns out erasing him doesn't mean for good, just from his future. His past still happened and his past is so intricately layered on Barry's that it's pretty impossible to untangle them.
Vanishes in Crisis
Vanished doesn't mean dead. It could mean he's in the past or the future or on another Earth. She likes to think she'd know if he were dead. Without the deadline to distract her or the twins to take care of (which she knows is for the best, they are safe with Linda and their mother is slowly having a breakdown) though-- it's getting hard to believe. Iris is worried and scared and she just wants him back. She just wants to put her arms around him again. Feel his insanely fast heartbeat.]
[It was only natural that Martha and Jack would end up finding comfort in each other after each of their long term significant others/spouses died in alien attacks. Only Jack ended up dealing with one thing for Torchwood while Martha was freelancing for UNIT...
Months later, she stood outside her flat feeling lost. She stared at her mobile a long moment before finally pushing the name she wanted.]
[before we begin let us bust out the wingless music.
the hardest part about being together with someone from another world was the fear that you may be separated. there is always a higher power, always something pulling the strings to their lives, and this was no exception. after being through so much together, experiencing both their worlds and both their endings, they had finally found happiness together with one another.
until they had been torn apart yet again.
battler owed his life to yuri, and in a strange (and twisted) way yuri owed hers to battler as well. he knew that he could never throw away his life after what they had both gone through, and he had decided to move on and live up to the ushiromiya name. he had worked alongside aunt eva, as well as the young ange, in order to keep each other sane while everyone tried to bring down their family and their company. no one would be able to take them down however, battler had made sure of it. what happened on that island was magic, it is a sealed box, and only him and eva knew about it. he would never reveal what happened.... what he gave up, what he fought for, and who had died.
he thought he would never see yuri again, especially since it had been several years now.... until she one day arrived at his house yet again. battler had actually been about to leave for a meeting, to talk with a certain ikuko about the books he had been writing, but he had been stopped when he saw a familiar face. no... was this an illusion? was he just seeing things? was his mind playing tricks on him again? whatever the case was, he immediately felt tears spring to his eyes.]
No.... wait.... y-you can't be real... [he shook his head as he felt his heart pound rapidly in his chest. his hands shook, and the bag that had been slung over his shoulder drooped, eventually it fell to the ground. battler covered his eyes with his hand as he felt the hot tears roll down his cheeks.]
Yuri.... tell me you're real.... maybe if I hear your voice I'll-.... [he choked down a sob, his voice already shaking and unsteady.] Don't let this be a cruel joke...! Or if it is a joke you're pulling then.... at least hit me, something!
[ ooc: hi you can ignore this if you're not into the ship but I thought on a long shot I'd ask if 1) you would be up for something with these two, and 2) if it should be AU or post-finale for maximum spoilery reconciliation stuff? ]
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