Where We Belong (6/6)

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au. It’s like they can’t help it, they are drawn to each other like moths to the flame and she knows that she’ll only get burned if she doesn’t stay away but she can’t find it in herself to care. captain wench.

part one. part two. part three. part four. part five. part six.

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(Hi, hello, do you remember me?

So basically a little over a year ago I uploaded Part Five of this story and there was a lot going on in my life and I kind of lost interest in Once and it just didn’t sit right with me to keep on writing something that my heart wasn’t in. So I left it unfinished. That is until now…

I found the document on my desktop and read all of it and I kept wondering why I didn’t finish because I had the last chapter outlined and then I just started writing and here we are.

This is the end, thank you for sticking with me until now, I hope you enjoy.)

part six.

She can
practically feel him enter the
tavern. It’s like one moment everything is as it has been for the last two and
a half weeks and then, suddenly, he is there; a presence that fills the room
and sort of lights it up and her back straightens, her hand stops mid-air, the
mug in it stopping on its way down to the wooden platter and she barely stops
herself from spinning around in time.

Slowly she looks
up and meets the eyes of the girl behind the bar, who, of course, noticed her
straightening up. There is little that Ruby doesn’t notice. A smile slowly
forms on her pretty lips and her gaze wanders around the room, searching for
the reason behind Emma’s sudden standstill.

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