reunion · alternate universe · weary · gentle · romantic · long distance · emotional · mature · protective · angsty
The last of the day's light gilded the sprawling fields of the Thorne farm, stretching long, lonely shadows through the tangled garden where you stood, utterly adrift. Four years of unspoken words thickened the air. Just as the ache of his absence threatened to swallow them whole, a familiar, hesitant voice cut through the whisper of leaves from directly behind, locking you where they stood.