BACKDATED LIKE HELL

[dividedgirlofmine]

Who| Susannah and Eddie
What| Susannah needs to see if Eddie's alive with her own eyes.
Where| Eddie's room at the D3 suites
When| Back during the last Arena, after this but before this
Warnings/Notes| Sorry this is backdated so badly, but we're gonna do this anyway. There may be kissing.

The moment Susannah wakes up again in the Capitol she knows exactly what she has to do. She needs to find Eddie, to see if he's alive too, if the magic capitol bullshit technology has given Susannah back her man because she cannot do this if this Eddie is dead for good. She's seen him die too many times for this.

When she reaches the Three suites she's in enough of a state that she can barely pay attention to anything else, not even Cuthbert huddled up on the couch in his blanket. The only thing on her mind is finding her not-husband and making sure he's alive with her very own eyes.

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[wiredup]

Eddie is a little worse for wear. There's a wound, and it was a bad one. But not so bad the Capitol can patch it up.

Still, it is sore, and weak, and sitting up is a bitch and a half. So instead he's laying in bed, and examining the little morphling drip they've got him hooked up to.

Which is doing nothing.

When Suze walks in, he looked up at her with a big, shit eating grin.

"Nice aim."

[dividedgirlofmine]

He's making a joke of it. He's making a joke of it.

Of course he's making a joke of it. This is Eddie. If he wasn't making a joke of it, then she'd have to worry about him.

"Eddie, you-- you--"

She pulls up close to the bed and then swings herself up out of her wheelchair and onto it, so she can creep up to his face and gently touch his cheek.

"You're alive."

[wiredup]

Oh, her touch was nice. Leaning his face into her palm, her looked up at her with that same grin on his face.

Now she was closer, it wasn't hard to see the pain pinching her face, the shadows under his eyes. This wasn't fun. But man he was glad to see her.

"How'd you get out?"

Watching recaps hadn't been his forte, of late.

[dividedgirlofmine]

"I let the dino eat me," she admits, stroking his cheek with her thumb. "Goaded it to, really. I... I didn't want to live if you were dead." It was hard enough the first time. "I... I know you're not my husband, but... but I've still been thinking of you as my man. For a while now."

[wiredup]

Even if he had been on the same page with her, it was nice to her. Deeply nice. All the warm and fuzzy feelings he hadn't felt in a long time (Ever? Possibly ever. Probably ever.) flooded through him.

He reached up, pressing her hand into his cheek, and then pressing a kiss into her palm.

"Well, I can think of more romantic statements than being eaten by a t-rex but...I would be deeply honored to be your man."

[dividedgirlofmine]

Susannah smiles warmly at him. "Well," she says, "that settles it, then."

Then she leans forward to brush her lips briefly against his, before coming back again to kiss him again, more thoroughly.

It felt good, kissing Eddie again.

It felt like coming home.

[wiredup]

Even if it wasn't the most comfortable position, he wrapped his arms around Suzannah's waist, pulling her closer.

There was a little grunt as he jarred his wound. But it was worth it to have his arms full of her. Kissing back, he sank into it, enjoying all the little details of it.

He'd had plenty of kisses in his life. All sorts. But this one? Yeah, it took the cake.

[dividedgirlofmine]

"I love you," she whispers against his mouth and she means it, she really means it. She hasn't known him all that long, but it's been longer than it took to fall in love with her first Eddie and really that falling in love laid all the groundwork for this. "I love you so damn much."

[wiredup]

God, that felt good to hear. Deeply good. He sighed, relaxing into his pillow, and holding Suze against him.

This was a strange feeling, content and...safe? Given their circumstances, there was a fluttering of panic, deep down. But for now he caged it up. This was too nice not to enjoy.

"Love you, baby girl." He said softly, against the cuff of her ear, before placing a kiss there, lightly, and starting to work his way down her jaw.

[dividedgirlofmine]

Susannah makes a soft, pleased sigh and leans her head back, baring her neck for further kissing. Somewhere along the way, the stumps of her legs have found themselves on either side of Eddie's torso and now she's straddling him--and she's very much aware of that.