Title: longing
Rating: G
Fandom: Starlight Vega
Relationship: Lyria/Aria Reid
Wordcount: 250
Short summary: What Aria thinks and what Lyria thinks… these thoughts are not communicated.
Aria wants to go home but also wants to stay. She wants to stand up but also wants to run away. She doesn’t know what Lyria is thinking and she wants to know, desperately. She wants to be desired and teased and wanted, just like before, when they first met. Even if Aria wasn’t sure how to feel about it then, mixed between discomfort and confusion… Lyria seemed invested. Lyria seemed to care.
Please trick me into thinking you still care.
Sometimes Aria sees a look in Lyria’s eyes that suggests that maybe some feelings still linger. That it’s a complicated situation that Aria is being protected from. But Aria still wants to be useful. She doesn’t know how, but because she cares for Lyria…
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Lyria sighs as she returns to her room, alone. No progress has been made. Vega is still dying. And what she wants is still…
Lyria just wants to sink into Aria’s warmth. She wants to hold her and kiss her and sleep next to her and be lovers. She wants to be “ordinary” with Aria; ordinary enough that her “job” can just be her job and her “love” can just be her love. She hates that her royal status keeps them apart, keeps Lyria from saying… keeps Lyria from responding…
Please trick me into thinking that everything will actually be okay.
Lyria doesn’t know how Aria can be the key to saving them, but she has to be. Lyria needs the hope, and the belief…