#angst and yearning and soft intimacy galore
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Elain Confronts Rhysand
Snippet of the confrontation between Rhysand and Elain regarding Azriel, coming up in a few chapters. In the second half of this story, Elain is going to find some hellish agency and I can't wait for her thorns to come out.
Violet eyes met her own in a calculated calm laced with power.
“What I did,” Rhysand responded slowly, “was for the safety of this court. For the safety of you yourself-”
Elain unleashed herself.
“You know NOTHING of me” she cried out across the room, her voice piercing the silence of the hall. It rang out clear and high.
“- of what tethers me to this realm.”
Feyre's hand moved to cover her mouth her shock, in response to hearing such a sound from Elain.
“He was my friend”
The honesty, the emotion, in her tone, rippled through the room.
Elain’s voice began to break at that thought, at the loss, at words never spoken.
“He was the only one, of all of you who saw,” the confession spilled out of her, the first time she had ever admitted it aloud. To Azriel. To herself even.
“He saw what I was,” she did not falter,
“Beneath it all, beneath the nightmare cauldron Made me into, he saw- ” she threw a wild hand behind her towards the shadowsinger.
Elain took in a great shaking breath, and brought her hand back to clutch her own heart.
“He found me in my darkest hour, and every day,
every moment with him, brought me to light.”
She knew what she would say next. She looked into Rhysand’s violet eyes and pushed true intention into her gaze.
“You know what it is to share that with another.”
Elain turned her eyes to Feyre’s face, tears brimming her sister’s grey eyes as she listened, pain laced there.
Yes
her gaze whispered to her sister,
this hurts
this hurts anyone who has ever felt such a thing.
Rhysand’s violet eyes finally flashed with a trace of quiet realization.
Elain could feel her voice breaking with emotion but she didn’t care.
“He was perfect to me,” almost a whisper,
my lovely, fragile, lethal belladonna
“and you took him from me like a thief in the night”
Rhysand parted his lips to say something but the loneliness and need and want that lingered within her for a year shook the walls.
“I have asked for nothing, nothing from anyone in all my life,” a breath,
"except to have my own choice.”
The deafening need in her voice, the truth in that statement, that request, and how little it was to ask, hit Elain like a jolt to the heart. She felt it ring true throughout the room, and ache in the eyes of her entire family.
“It was the truest thing I have ever known” she whispered, knowing they could all hear.
“And you took it from me and made every moment ash in my fingers.”
Tears fell down her cheeks. Each one fell heavy, each weighted with truth. Elain could feel herself unravelling. But she would not break, not now with it all on the brink. So instead of unravelling, she steeled herself and allowed something cold, something like pity, to replace the sorrow in her eyes.
“how very little of love you must know to do such a thing." she said quietly.
Rhysand’s violet eyes guttered out and Elain knew she had won the battle.
How easy it was
Elain thought in that moment.
How easy it was to bring a High Lord to his knees,
not with any magic,
not with any weapons,
but with only the trueness of her own unblemished heart.
What Bloomed in the Darkgarden by ehoney on AO3
Multi-Chapter, Canon-Compliant, Updated every Monday.
#acotar#acotar fanfiction#elriel#feysand#nessian#the night court#acotar fic#elain archeron#azriel#shadowsinger#rhysand#darkgarden#slow burn but worth it#my whole heart and soul is going into this story#angst and yearning and soft intimacy galore#elain is no wilting rose here#get ready for thorns#elriel month#pro elain
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effervescentwolf dnf masterpost
Here’s all my dnf fics in one post with my most recent ones first! You can check out my AO3 directly too :)
between zeros and ones
Rated T | 5k | oneshot
George doesn’t like him. Dream’s heart doesn’t seem to care.
Enemies/rivals to lovers, college au, Dream is whipped, much more lovers than enemies LOL
what it is to gain (and love along the way)
Rated T | 9.9k | oneshot
Dream is sick. George just really loves him.
Sick Dream, established relationship, fluff and very sappy with a teeny bit of angst. It’s the second part to my previous sickfic :)
you can’t hide a heartbeat
Rated T | 4.7k | oneshot
George wears a heart rate monitor on stream, and Dream joins vc to try and fluster him. Spoiler: it works.
Flirty Dream, flustered George, so much flirting and very fluffy with a bit of friends to lovers mixed in
look up at me (i’ll look down at you)
Rated E | 5.2k | oneshot
Dream likes being big. George likes being small. It’s a good combination.
Size kink (ofc), friends to lovers, dom/sub undertones, sexual tension, flirting
the weight of wanting
Rated M | 2k | oneshot
George’s relationship with the word want, starting with him in Florida and ending with Dream in George’s bed.
Emotional hurt/comfort, George is overwhelmed by how much love he has, confessions, friends to lovers, kissing
what it is (not) to lose
Rated T | 13.1k | oneshot
George is sick, and Dream is terribly in love with him.
Fluff and angst, sickfic, lots of yearning, mutual pining, some crying and then some kisses after to make it all better
to hold you gently
Rated E | 2.9k | oneshot
George has a bad day. Dream makes it better.
Little hurt/lots of comfort, friends to lovers bc confessions woo, mostly just very soft and them taking care of each other
the spaces between words
Rated M | 27k | oneshot
George ever so slowly allows himself to be completely and utterly in love with Dream.
Emotional constipation, flirty Dream, intimacy, fluff
tug me closer
Rated E | 16.3k | 2 chapters
Dream has a thing for getting his hair pulled. George just likes making him fall apart.
Hair pulling ofc, banter, kind of soft and they confess to each other bc how could they not, Dream’s nervous (and also bottoms LOL)
falling into you
Rated T | 13.7k | 2 chapters
Dream accidentally confesses he’s in love with George. Only problem is he’s not… right?
Dream falling in love (or more accurately realizing he’s in love), acting like boyfriends, kissing, so much fluff
silver striking gold
Rated M | 26.3k | 5 chapters
George gets to Florida, and Dream can’t figure out a way to stop himself from falling.
Angsty, lots of pining, sharing a bed, hoodie exchange, Dream being literally head over heels and desperately trying not to be, happy ending though :)
Comfort and Love
Rated T | 5.5k | oneshot
The Dream team navigating platonic and romantic relationships via kisses and hugs.
Dnf making out, Sapnap likes goodnight kisses, LOTS of banter, fluffy, dnf getting together but not letting Sapnap really third wheel
you’re on my mind (and leaning a little too close)
Rated T | 9.2k | oneshot
Dream thinks about kissing George for the first time, and then he can’t stop thinking about it.
Getting together, flustered Dream, fluff galore
Until the End of Time
Rated T | 3.5k | oneshot
Dream has been in denial of his feelings for so long, he doesn’t know what to do with himself. George holds him together.
Dialogue heavy, hurt/comfort, Dream’s in love and afraid, George’s in love and reassuring
Every Time I Look at You
Rated T | 9.2k | oneshot
George is in Florida for the first time and they’re both far too in love for it.
Fluff, Dream can’t keep his eyes off, they like each other so much, getting together in a way that’s very them
Just Give Me a Word
Rated T | 2.9k | oneshot
Dream confesses, George doesn’t respond, and Dream falls apart.
Confessions, George needs time, Dream worries, requited love
The Two Halves of My Heart
Rated T | 8.3k | oneshot
Soulmates AU where whatever you write on your skin also appears on your soulmate.
Flirting, Dream’s massive crush on George, figuring out who his soulmate is (I wonder…)
If I Could Just Stay In Your Arms
Rated T | 4.6k | oneshot
Dream acts more and more like George’s boyfriend until George can’t take it anymore.
Fluff, kissing, confessions, they’re so obvious
Boundaries (#1 fan goes to @sometimesitmakesmelaugh)
Rated T | 5.6k | oneshot
George struggles to navigate boundaries with Dream who seemingly has none.
A little bit of angst, George is trying his hardest, happy ending, confessions bc I cannot resist
And that’s it! Thanks for reading :D
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