FIC: More Entries of Love (1/2)

BY: Scarlet

SERIES: Steppin’ Up (2/5)

ARC: Lesson From the Book of Love

RATED: PG-ish for now

SUMMARY: Catching up my diary on what’s been happening…

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November 2, 2004

Dear Diary,

I’m sorry it’s been so long since I’ve gotten you out… but it’s been a bit hectic or rather it’s STILL hectic. So let’s see if I can catch you up here on things…

The last thing I told you about was Sully’s and my claim, right?

Okay, so let’s start there… Like I said, Luc and I had words right after that about the whole thing but we got back on track not long after. Once he knew it wasn’t going to effect how I felt about him we were better… so much better in fact that one night we claimed one another.

Yes, you heard me right. Luc and I took things to the next step as well… and well… even a little beyond that actually, or rather we well be soon. Do you remember when I said he had asked me if someday he’d mean enough to be my mate?

Yes, good. Cause he does mean that much to me… and more. In fact, in just a few weeks he will be my husband and mate. He’s so incredibly sweet and romantic and the way he asked me… well, it was picture perfect romantic to say the least.

I can’t even begin to tell you how amazingly happy I am right now. I can’t even remember a time in my life when I’ve been so content…

~ Sighs dreamily ~

But I’m getting ahead of myself here, aren’t I?

Okay, so let’s get back to catching you up so I can tell you why, right? Yeah. So Luc and I claimed, he asked me to marry him and be his mate and I said yes.

Tis and Bear have claimed as well, and Wolfe and Tis finally finished what they started last fall.

Cae and Vamps got married in August. We bought them a place right next to ours. Now Vamps, Cae, Anubis and Luc live next door and sometimes Angelina and Val as well. It makes things so much easier and more convenient for all of us, really.

Oh… and I finally found out what Bear was up to too. Nothing bad, thank gods.

He was falling in love with Chaos and didn’t know how to tell anyone. Not even Cae herself, but now he has. He’s still very quiet about his feelings for her when the rest of the family is around but I can feel how much he cares for her. So much in fact that he’s spoken to me about mating with her as well as Vamps in the near future as well.

Now I’ve caught you up to date on what’s going on for the most part… oh and Ang and Wolfie are just absolutely adorable together in their own blushy-quiet little way…

So now I can get back to why I absolutely had to make time to write in you again… even if I have to do it here in the middle of the night when my tigger and my prince are both fast asleep beside me…

It all started on Halloween… or more like the weeks leading up to Halloween. Sully and I had talked about mating not long after Luc asked me to marry him.

Now we didn’t get too in depth about it ‘cause I knew Tis was still a bit nervous about it and I didn’t want to push…but we talked. Even if I wanted to Mate with him, I was more than happy with having what we had. I could live with us being claimed and nothing more until both Sully and Tis were ready for him to take the next step…

Not much more was said about it until one night when Sully had taken me out on the bike. We raced up along the coast letting the wind, sea and open road guide us. Somewhere around the other side of the island we found a grassy rise overlooking the ocean and pulled off. We sat there snuggling and talking for a long time; then he asked.

I mean really asked. I was so surprised I can’t even tell you how much. I’d wanted this for so long that I’d actually given up all hope a long time ago. Now that I knew it was closer to a possibility than ever, my stomach had butterflies in it.

I said yes of course. Well, as soon as I could breathe, that is …

Then came the time. We were at the club Halloween night after most of our friends had gone, basically just hanging out talking and having one last drink before we went home.

I was sitting with Luc, Sully and a few others at the bar when Tigger leaned over and whispered in my ear. “Thin’ ‘s time t’ ge’ outta ‘ere, petal-mine,” he said, sliding his hand up my arm to his mark on my neck, sending shivers at up and down my spine and setting my pulse racing. I knew he could feel it too.

One look in to his eyes and it was all over for me. All the butterflies from earlier were back and they’d brought friends… lots of them.

It wasn’t like the same nervous feelings or uncertainty of what would happen when Bear and I mated two years ago… and it wasn’t the biting that did it neither… no, I’m a regular for my mate, my mate to be and husband to be so that wasn’t it at all…

But this was, well… It was the meaning behind it that sent my whole body in to a tizzy.

Sully and I were truly going to be part of one another. Willingly giving ourselves to one another for forever and always. We’d have a permanent bond that’s so amazingly strong nothing short of the end of the world would make it falter.

It’s something that I’d dreamt about having with him for so very long… As far back as I can remember, really… even before I got my ‘tigger’ tattoo and he got his ‘rose petal’ one. I guess you can say basically since the beginning, really. Back before we even lived at the lake house and he’d come up to visit me every now and then…. and now?

Now it was time…time to take that final step.

He might have said something else to me, but I didn’t hear it. I was too caught up in the moment to really be sure. But when my prince’s hand ran down my back I came out of the trance I was in, forcing my attention back to the club.

“Just let me say good night to Luc and everyone else and I’ll be ready to go, Tigger,” I told him softly before turning to do just that.

I hated leaving him but this was something for me and Sully… I knew he felt bad about leaving him as well, ‘cause he keep kissing my prince just as much as I did. But this was me and Sully, not me and Luc.

In just a few weeks I’ll be having to leaving my Tigger… in much the same way. But not that night. That night was ours and only ours… not to be shared with anyone else.

After kissing and hugging everyone of our family I found my way back to Luc and gave him one last kiss – one last whispered ‘I love you’ before taking Tigger’s hand.

Now I have to tell you that I expected us to use the fixt gate to head somewhere special from where we were… but instead, within a blink of an eye we were standing in the middle of an enormous and elaborately decorated bedroom high up in the Bavarian mountains.

~The bed shift behind me and then I feel Sully’s arm wrap around my waist. “Petal? Wha’s y’ do’n’, luv?”

“Nothing Tigger, go back to sleep.” I whisper back. ~

Okay, Diary, I think that’s about it for right now… I promise I’ll catch you up on all the rest of this later… but right now I have a mate to snuggle with.

Later,

~Me