cautionarytale | [spam for gabriel]

"Hey," [Elle says, a little more nervously than usual. She grabs the backpack and roots through it, pulling out the blanket for starters.]

[Gabriel helps her lay out the blanket, but walks up and stops her before she goes to rifle through the backpack. He takes off his glasses and slides them into his pocket, knowing she prefers him without, and sets a hand on her cheek. His gaze lingers a moment before he leans in to give her a quick but soft kiss.]

"I missed you."

[Elle kisses him back, grabbing onto his shirt with both hands before leaning away. She bites her lip and smiles up at him.] "Yeah. C'mere." [She sits on the blanket, then beckons him to follow suit.]

[Gabriel quickly follows, sitting down beside her with his legs extended before him to enable her to sit on his lap if she wants; Elle's the kind of girl he trusts to know what she wants. He offers her a smile, waiting on her to make the next move since he doesn't want to force her into anything.]

"You look nice. I like your hair."

[Elle decides to sit next to him, for the moment, but close enough that their shoulders are touching. She reaches across him to grab his hand and laces her fingers through his.]

"Thanks." [She glances down for a moment before leaning in to kiss him again.]

[He smiles, running a thumb over the back of her hand as he admires her beauty. Gabriel returns her kiss with as much enthusiasm, if not more. Then he presses another kiss on her lips after breaking the first.]

"We should eat." [Another kiss.] "It'll get cold." [Another kiss.]

"Who cares?" [She runs her free hand across his shoulder to the back of his neck, holding him against her as she keeps on kissing him.]

[Gabriel shifts to expose more of his body toward her, granting them better access to each other. His free hand moves to her waist, exploring that area without dipping beneath her shirt yet. He's always careful. A new kiss comes and again, the overeager nerd growing a little more greedy for attention. She's so perfect and wonderful, he's lucky to have gotten a girl like her, even if it's in secret.]

[Elle gasps softly when he touches her, even if her shirt's in the way. She pulls out of the kiss, panting lightly as she grins at him.] "Isn't this better than eating?"

[He's as out of breath as she is and still more anxious. His hand begins to massage that section of her waist and hip, teasing the edge of her shirt but not yet touching skin. Gabriel offers her a sincere and wide smile.] "Yes."

[With any other guy - or at least the ones she's used to - Elle's pretty sure she'd be at least half naked by now. She kind of likes this taking it slow thing for a change. And Gabriel's so sweet and it seems like he really cares about her.]

"So let's keep doing it." [She kisses him again.]

[Elle's not the first girl he's ever kissed, but she's one of select few and the only one he's committed himself to for any length of time. He really cares about her and she's not like other girls and he hopes so much that she knows that.

Instead of replying verbally, he responds physically. The hand intertwined with hers detaches to move to her opposite hip, both hands now dipping beneath the border of her shirt to run lightly across her skin. His mouth moves on hers, lips slowly parting to allow her to go further.]

[Elle grabs onto the collar of his shirt and tugs as she falls over sideways, wanting him to lie down next to her. She kisses him once more before pulling back a little.]

"Can we just... look at the stars or something?" [It's not any kind of rejection, and she grabs his hand again hoping he'll get that. Making out is fun and all, but she feels like actually doing something romantic would mean more.]

"Y--Yes! Of course. I didn't mean to.." [He cuts off, looking a bit awkward.

Gabriel rolls from his side to his back to look up at the stars as she suggested, trying to steady his nerves. He just wants everything to be perfect. One hand is resting on his stomach now, the other holding hers. Instantly transitioning, he uses their combined hands to point up at a constellation.] "There's Orion! Do you see it?"

[Elle slides over so she's on her back next to him, her head resting on his shoulder. She maneuvers his arm so it's wrapped around her, then snuggles in against him.

She doesn't know anything about stars.] "Where?" [She looks along their hands, trying to figure out what he's pointing at. There are a couple stars brighter than the others, but nothing that means anything to her.]

[Gabriel rests his hand on her shoulder, the arm beneath her, and leans his head toward hers a hint. Their intertwined fingers separate only enough for him to point one finger up toward a row of stars.] "Do you see those three there? That's Orion's belt. The others.." [He gestures to two below and a collection above.] "..make up the rest of him."

[Elle is right. This time spent together is much more enjoyable than whatever sexual pursuits they could have enjoyed. It's much nicer to care about her and to enjoy her company than to simply enjoy her body and be done with it.]

[Elle squints upwards, following his finger.] "Oh yeah, I see it." [She turns her head and smiles at him. It's so cute that he knows constellations.]

"And see, over there.." [He glances at her and notices she's looking at him. Gabriel smiles widely, laughing just a hint.] "You're not looking at the stars. How will you ever know where Gemini is?"

[His tone is teasing, accompanying his smile, and he drops their joined hands gently back to the ground again.]

"You're nicer to look at than stars." [Even though she's the one who suggested stargazing in the first place. Maybe she really is boy crazy like her dad says.

She bites her lip and turns her attention back to the sky.] "Okay, where's Gemini?"

[Gabriel lifts his head just enough to press a soft kiss into her hair, then he returns to laying beside her. Again he lifts their hands, pointing with his finger not far from Orion to a small cluster that's a little bit harder to discern.] "Do you see that group there? It looks like three corners of a rectangle? That's Gemini."

[There's still a smile on his lips and in his tone as he points it out, just loving spending this time with her.]

"I'm a Cancer. Where's that?" [Elle asks, grinning to herself over the fact that he kissed her hair. How sweet could he get?

She grabs a corner of the blanket and pulls it over them. Even though it's a warm summer night, she likes being practically cocooned in a makeshift sleeping bag.]

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[Gabriel notices the action and follows her example so that they're wrapped up together. Their arms poke out through the seam to continue pointing at stars.] "To the west. It's pretty faint, but if you look right there.. it's a sort of upside-down Y shape. Buried between Gemini and Leo."

[He leans his head against hers again, the hand on her shoulder beginning to gently caress her arm there in a subtle and affectionate gesture.]

"It doesn't look much like a crab, does it?" [She wrinkled her nose playfully at him.] "What sign are you?"

"Gemini, actually." [He motions again to the constellation they were just looking at.] "My 'twins' are an 'L'. It's like looking at clouds, the imagination needed."

"Oh, right, clouds." [She hasn't looked at clouds and imagined shapes since she was a little kid, and it seems like she doesn't really remember how.

She looks back over at Cancer.] "If... that's the body..." [she gestures to a sort of rectangle-ish shape,] "then maybe those are the claws." [She points at two other stars that could form lines of the rectange-ish thing.] "I can kinda see it."

[His smile wavers at the questioning tone in her voice, realizing that she hasn't done such a thing for too long. He has heard rumors of what her dad is like and kind of hates the man, though he would never tell her that. When she begins to create her own constellations, he smiles again and doesn't tell her that part of her crab is actually Leo.]

"There you go! Now, find an elephant. Make one, like connecting the dots."

"Ummm..." [Elle points to a sort of trapezoid shape.] "That could be the body..." [And then to a couple stars coming off the trapezoid.] "And those could be the trunk." [She pointed to another star a short way above the 'body,' laughing softly.] "Maybe that's an ear."

[Gabriel smiles, thinking she's just turned Hercules into an elephant. He appreciates her enthusiasm if nothing else; it's adorable.]

"What should we name it? We'll have to pass it down through the generations." [There's a small laugh accompanying the idea, then an awkward shift as he realizes what could be interpreted from what he's said.] "I mean, tell it to other people.. not our kids. That we don't have."

"What's that elephant in those kids books?" [Elle vaguely remembers reading something with an elephant when she was little, but it was a long time ago and she doesn't know what it was called.

She fidgets awkwardly when he mentions the kids they don't have. She's only seventeen, but if she's going to have kids somewhere down the line... it'll probably be with Gabriel. He's the nicest guy she knows, anyway.] "Right. Other people."

[There's an awkward pause where Gabriel stops rubbing her arm and looks around at the woods, paranoid that it's the perfect moment for someone else to eavesdrop. After a slight clearing of the throat, he offers the answer to her initial question.] "Horton?"

[He swallows and resumes his subtle affection, hoping she'll pretend that never happened.]

"Yeah, I think so." [She turns onto her side and curls up against him, planting a quick kiss on his cheek.]

[Gabriel slides his hand from her shoulder to her waist just to pull her closer to him, ensuring he wraps the blanket more tightly around them as well. He glances sideways at her with the same wide, sincere smile.]

"We have our very own constellation. Horton, the elephant." [His tone suggests it's the most rare and magical gift they might receive.] "You and I, Elle.. In spite of everything. We're really pretty good together."

"Yeah, we are," [she agrees, smiling at him. She pushes herself up so she's at eye-level with him and kisses him, slowly.]

[Gabriel kisses her back, using the arm around her to help support her against him. Unlike the greedy kisses of before, now he's settled back to an even level and every move is entirely romantic. He kisses her again, softly and slowly. He releases her fingers from his other hand to wrap the opposite side around her waist, his hands holding to each other to help support her rather than trying to feel her at all.]

[Elle wrapped her arms around his shoulders and kissed him back, arching her back to press herself against him. One of her feet nudged between his shins.]

[Gabriel shifted awkwardly to allow her whatever access she wanted. His hands separated to different portions of her back, still working to hold her against him. He broke the kiss for a moment, wanting to prevent the romance from fading.]

"I love you, Elle." [It wasn't the first time he had said it, but the only time where he was entirely solemn and sincere about the sentiment.]

[Elle looks down when he says that, taken a little aback by it.] "I... I love you too." [She bites her lip and raises her eyebrows at him, as though to ask where they go from here.]

[He pulls her into a firm hug, trying to show her that it doesn't make any difference. When he pulls away, his head tilts to kiss her with a tenderness he hopes she's never experienced before and his body presses into hers a hint more to offer her a warmth and comfort that he feels like is all he has to give.]

[Elle squeaks in surprise and hugs him back, grinning from ear to ear like a total idiot. When he kisses her, she rolls over on top of him, pulling the blanket around them and tucking her arms in against his sides.]

[Gabriel lays back flat with Elle on top of him, the blanket encompassing them and his arms still wrapped around her. He gives her a smile as endearingly large as her own.]

"You're beautiful."

"I know," [she responds, oh-so-modest. She brushes her fingers through his hair, then strokes his jaw down to his chin before leaning in to kiss him again.]

[He doesn't care. That charm is what makes her Elle. Gabriel moans quietly at her touch, as though trying to stifle it out of embarrassment, then presses his lips to hers again with a smile on his lips.]

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I'm fine to skip ahead/assume the rest if you ever want. I don't want to be boring. xD

totally up to you! I'm not bored, but I'm cool with assuming

NEVAR!

I'LL JUST ASSUME THAT MEANS WE'RE THREADING THIS UNTIL THE END OF TIME THEN

Well, yeah... OHTHANKS, ask the one question that does not exist in canon..

LOLSORRY

I FORGIVE YOU.... this time. [dun dun duuuuuun]

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I'M OUT OF CREATIVITY HERE.