Tell me about our future, she had said without realising.

Tell me about our future, she said the first time they met.

Tell me about our future, she said as they sat in Hay Lin's basement.

Tell me about our future, she said when she kissed him before the final battle.

Tell me about our future, she said the time she caught him as he slipped on the ice.

Tell me about our future, she said through tears when she wore his shirt all those long nights.

Tell me about our future, she said with a smile when she travelled across dimensions to see him.

Tell me about our future, she said in front of their friends and family, matching bands around their fingers.

"Tell me about our future," Caleb says.

Cornelia takes his hand and places it on the roundest part of her stomach. The baby kicks. She could never be ready for this, yet here she is, in the tiniest fraction of their future together, the sum of perfection, an infinitesimal piece of forever.

There is nowhere else she would rather be.

a/n: thats all folks! hope you enjoyed that little wander into their future of our faves. thank you so so much for reading, i adore you for doing so! if you havent already read 'something real' by yours truly, id totally recommend it for your fix of canon-compliant cxc drabbles. i would also rec 'she who wears the crown' and 'liability' for some elyon love.

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thank you thank you thank you + so much love,

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