I'd Catch You If You Fall

He flinched as Duchess embraced the water much more wholeheartedly than he was willing to. He hadn’t actually planned on getting much more wet than he already was, mostly to appease the girl. When he watched her dunk underwater he realized he had assumed incorrectly. He lowered a brow suspiciously as she swam closer, and gasped at the cold water as it splashed up at his belly. ”Oh, hey! cold!” Indigo was hit at the exact right time for Duchess and the exact wrong time for him. He fell back into the water, unable to catch his footing he was forced all the way back and he was suddenly underwater.

Indigo lost his breath but he managed to get to the surface before he gasped for air. He shook himself in the water, suddenly soaked all the way through. He sucked in a few short breaths through his lips as his blue gaze searched for Duch’s delicate frame. He searched fo there, but his mind looked for Aslatiel. He furrowed his brow and shook his head lightly as he lowered himself back into the water and paddled slowly after Duchess.

She gave him a playful grin as he slid through the water towards her tiny form. He returned the expression, as the days went on he could more easily shove his emotions down the deeper ones that haunted him were difficult to silence. Duchess helped him more than she knew though, that proof in the slight smile on his dark lips.

He swam up beside her and held his breath as he trailed his nose up her belly through the water, ending with a rather wet kiss as he made his way to her lips.