Farewell sweet earth and northern sky (tinuviel) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2017-05-07 15:39:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, elphaba thropp, luthien tinuviel |
Who: Elphaba and Luthien
What: Defending the house
Where: Their home
When: May 5th
Rating: Low?
Status: Complete when posted
Elphaba had made sure that they had plenty of provisions as soon as she heard the news that these Storm Troopers were arriving in the city. She had bundled Mae up and rushed to the shop and picked up as many essential supplies as she could. Now there were reports that they were attacking people and she was sat at the dining room table searching through her Grimmerie for defensive and warding spells. She was trying to stay calm as she didn’t want to let her anxieties rub off on Mae or Dior, but she had a feeling that would be inevitable to some degree regardless of any amount of cooing she did.
The droids the day before hadn’t really bothered them, not after Luthien had dispatched several and then mounted their metal heads on the lawn. Gruesome, but they weren’t actually people and when it came to protecting her family, Luthien was willing to go full dream medieval. Besides, she’d found it a little amusing. They were cute. For killer robots.
The troopers, on the other hand, were more of a problem and she wasn’t exactly going to defile human bodies.
Wearing leather riding pants and a thick leather jacket as armor, Luthien kept an eye on the window while she sharpened her sword. “Next week, I am buying a gun, and we are both going to learn to shoot.” She didn’t like who she could be when she was forced to engage in sword play.
Luthien preferred other forms of fighting, but Stormtroopers wouldn’t be lulled by song. Would they?
Unlike Luthien, Elphie had little to no experience in hand to hand combat. Elphaba chuckled at Luthien’s statement. “You’ll get no argument from me after all of this,” she sighed, sitting back from the book and rubbing her hands over her face to give her eyes a bit of a break. “I’ve got some pretty good shielding spells in here and a few offensive spells we could try, but they might not leave the lawn looking as good as it’s looking now,” she told her wife.
“Lawns can be fixed. I’ve been thinking of going to landscaping anyway. It helps with the water problem. The house and our family is much more important.” Luthien set her sword down, coming over to Elphaba. “Whatever you need to do, you do it. Even if I am in the middle of it, I will be fine, I promise.”
Elphaba shook her head as Luthien approached, marvelling at how mundane the first part of her wife’s speech had been. “Well I’m hoping that whatever defensive spells I can put up means it won’t actually come to anything like that,” she told her wife heavily. “I wish we didn’t even to have this kind of conversation,” she sighed.
“We will have to have one like it.” Luthien had already decided on that. She loved her home, her wife and her family. The tree through the center of the house. The acoustics were amazing, which is why she’d chosen it when she’d first moved here all those years ago.
She wouldn’t give it up. “I’m serious, about guns.”
Elphaba nodded solemnly and leaned to the side to rest her head against Luthien’s stomach, nuzzling into her wife’s warmth. Wrapping her arms around her waist, she sighed heavily and stared at the book. “I’ll get started on the shield in a minute, I just want to hold you for a bit first,” she said, thumbs rubbing the skin under Luthien’s leather jacket.
Luthien ran her fingers through Elphaba’s hair, digging her fingers in when Elphaba’s thumbs rubbed her skin. She suddenly had a much better idea of what she wanted to do with her time, but that was a risk they couldn’t take. “Take the time you need. But not too long.”
Elphaba nodded against Luthien’s stomach. “I’ll put an extra shield around the basement to protect the children too and Huan will be with them, won’t he?” she asked, not sure if the dog would be defending the house with them or defending the children.
“I’ve asked Huan to be the last line of defense for the children,” Luthien assured her. In the unlikely event both of them fell, Huan would tear any intruders limb from limb. Luthien put her hand on Elphaba’s face and gently pulled her up and into her lap. She kissed her then, deeply and reassuringly. “I will let nothing happen to you or them, I promise.”
She looked out the window. “We need that shield up.”
Elphaba sighed contentedly into the kiss, eyes closed as she pulled away. She nodded and picked up her Grimmerie before heading to the front of the house. She wasn’t sure why, but it felt like the type of thing she needed to do outside. Before closing the front door behind her she turned to look at Luthien with a little smile, “You’ve got my back, right?”
“I will always have your back,” Luthien promised her. What was the worse these troopers could do to her? She was elf, half demi-god. She followed Elphaba outside and put herself between her and the direction the enemy was most likely to come from. “I love you.”