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[motherloving]

WHAT in person for maximum wish power
WHERE by the lake or anywhere
WHEN night of day 140
NOTES it's a tanabata post!

[ Bamboo trees line the shore of the lake tonight, trailing papers from their branches. Each one is inscribed with a wish mysteriously left by...someone. Some of them are generic, like "world peace," and others are kind of weird and random, like, "fishes with candy scales."

But if you touch one, the text on it might turn into one of your wishes. Maybe it's something innocuous, but maybe it's one of your deepest secrets.

Well, maybe you don't go to the lake tonight. In any case, the stars are luminously bright overhead, and looking at them instills you with a strange sense of nostalgia... ]

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[starspangledman]

[he's quiet a moment, rubbing a hand over Vasily's back]

I'm not exactly jumping at the chance to tell people about it. But I'm glad that you understand.

[divasterous]

. . .

Why—not? I mean . . .

[starspangledman]

[he shrugs a little]

No one's asked about it? The right time hasn't come up. That sort of thing.

[divasterous]

I guess not . . .

[starspangledman]

But?

[divasterous]

It makes my heart ache a little.

[starspangledman]

Your heart...?

[divasterous]

For—for you, I mean.

[starspangledman]

No, I know...

[he ducks his head sightly, pressing his cheek against Vasily's temple]

It's all right, love. You don't have to worry.

[divasterous]

. . . I'm going to worry. I love you.

[starspangledman]

I love you too.

That's why I don't want to see your heart ache.

[divasterous]

Ah, but that just means it's working.

[starspangledman]

I can tell it's working in other ways, you know.

[divasterous]

Ah? Like what.

[starspangledman]

When I see you smile. When I hear you laugh. When yo open it up to Bucky and Mikk and everyone else.

[divasterous]

[flusters a little]

I . . . suppose that's true.

[starspangledman]

And I'd say all of those are better than having it ache.

[divasterous]

I'm happy . . . a lot. It's nice.

[starspangledman]

[kisses his forehead]

I'm a fan of it too.

[divasterous]

[laughs softly, wrapping his arms around Steve and squeezing tightly, mumbling]

You belong with me.

[starspangledman]

[hugs back just as tight, nosing against the top of his head]

I do.

[divasterous]

We made plans.

[softly]

[starspangledman]

[smiles a little]

We did. A place for us, a home together.

[divasterous]

I love that idea.

[starspangledman]

It's not just an idea. We'll make it happen.