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He’s inside of her and all around her, she can feel his breathing hitch and hear him whisper “I love you” each time he sets her skin on fire with another kiss. He presses his forehead to hers and urges her to open his eyes.
“I want to stay here forever,” he whispers and the tiniest tear slips from one of his hazel eyes and splashes on to her own cheeks. Her own tears don’t come until they are both spent and she is lying curled up in his arms. She knew what she signed on for when she said her vows and promised to stand by him for the rest of their lives. She knows who he is and why he does what he does. Knowing all of this though does not stop her heart from breaking every time they have to say goodbye, it doesn’t make up for the little panic attack she endures each time the phone rings and he isn’t by her side.
He is running his fingertips lightly over the flesh of her arm, and pressing warm kisses to the back of her neck. “I’ll come back, Brienne. I always do.” Brienne turns in his arms to face him, runs her hands over his chiseled chest and smiles softly through her tears.
“You better, or I’ll kill you myself.” Hyle chuckles quietly.
“Brienne, that doesn’t even make-“
“Shut up, Hyle.” Brienne pushes him onto his back and kisses him with all the strength she has left. He kisses her back like it’s the last thing he’ll ever do in this life and they make love at least three more times before the sun comes up and she has to leave him at the airport to go off and be a hero in a war that doesn’t even make sense to her.
Right here, now, in this bed as the sun rises and she is wrapped in his arms she can pretend that this is all they have to be, because it’s all that matters. It is everything. Eventually he starts to move and then the alarm goes off and she is thrust back into reality.
They kiss one last time right before he walks away from her towards his gate and she watches him until he disappears. Then she heads back home, calling in sick to work on her way back to their too-tiny apartment. She throws off her work clothes and pulls on old shirt of his that is too big for her except for the shoulders, and then she crawls back into their bed and hugs his pillow tight as she falls asleep with tears slipping form her closed lids.