Title: yearningly yours
Fandom: ouat
Rating: teen
Length: 265w
Content notes: poetry-prose, mulan-centric, marian/mulan, mulan/ruby, aurora/mulan

This is how you fall apart:

You find a pretty straight girl and tell yourself it doesn't matter.
You find a (pretty) (straight) princess, and offer to guard her forever.
She laughs in the firelight, flames dancing along her porcelain edges. Forever, she whispers like a forbidden word, and it's never brought up in the light.

In the light she goes back to her prince, and you go back on your promise.
(It was easier to be friends when he wasn't around, reminding you she'll never love you like that.)

This is how you fall:

You find a pretty bisexual girl and tell yourself it'll go better.
You find a (pretty) (bisexual) werewolf, and offer to kill the witch that trapped her.
She dances in the moonlight, the moon itself glinting from her teeth. Desire, she says like a fact, and it fades away with the morning dew.

In the sun she searches for a lover, and you feel too broken, too afraid to try again.
(It was easier when you didn't know the sharp pangs of heartbreak, and this way, she won't have someone who hesitates.)

This is how she-

She finds you in the depths of a tavern, drinking your troubles- she slams against
all your rules and order.
She finds you, and her son has wide eyes and is curious about your sword. (She finds
you and
you'll never be the same.)
She kisses you breathless, and invades your every sense, imprinting on your memory.

In the new beginning, she takes you
home.
(This is the last time you fall in love.)