Fire Emblem Three Houses: F!Byleth x Claude, I am hurt but I'm here

"I'm hurt but I'm here."

His words were echoing trough her head, and her mind couldn't let go of the image of him covered in blood and gore on that damn battle field that almost had cost both of their lives.

She didn't mind that the hand he lifted with great effort to slide gently across her face was covered in his own blood and that of his enemies. He was alive even if barely breathing. They were both alive and it was over.

Yes he was there, he always had been, since the first time they met, that night she had helped the three students from Garreg March chase away those outlaws.

Claude had not left her side ever since she decided to join and lead the Golden Deer house.

The three students were spectacular, each in their own way: proud, young, and beautiful. But there was something about Claude that had fascinated her ever since the first moment she layed eyes on him. Perhaps it was the deepness she sensed from the beginning but that she discovered only in time.

There was no person that seemed more lightheaded and superficial at times than him, but after a short while, she knew he was far from that. He was kind, open-minded and had the heart, smile and ambition able to conquer and change the world.

"Claude, don't die on me! Don't do that. You wanted to open Foldland up to the world. You shared that dream and it became ours," she said, tears pouring from her bright green eyes.

"Don't worry, Teach, I don't plan on dying just now..." he said inhaling sharply masking the pain with smiles and jokes as he always did. But this time life was draining from his rich, green eyes, and his beautiful complexion became ashy and pale.

He kept his word and fought the pain heroically for days and days until the wounds healed under the troubled eyes of the Alliance members.

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"You look much better now," she said looking at him smiling.

He was indeed looking better and acting like his nonchalant self again.

"I think it's time for us to say goodbye," she said smiling again one of those smiles that does not reach your eyes.

"I guess so... T... Byleth," he said smiling just a bit.

"You never called me by my name before."

"No, because we had a mission. But now that it is accomplished, we can afford to be just you and me for a brief moment," he said lifting her chin to force her to look into his eyes.

"For...for a brief moment...to do... what?" she asked almost breathless, trying to ignore what she was reading in his gaze.

"Well..." he said, that familiar bad boy grin stretching across his handsome features.

"To do what I longed for doing for a very long time... to make love to you," he said crushing his lips against hers as the awareness that she had wanted that too for a very long time stoke the same way... mercilessly.

So she closed her eyes and let him taste and feel her lips and tongue and it was bliss and madness how only passion can be that had been smothered under duty for way too long.

Claude was not shy, he never had been, and neither were his hands now when they were finally allowed to touch her the way he wanted to, without restrain. They went straight to her waist and to her breasts, pinning her gently but firmly against the wall of his room, that room full of books, maps and political letters, that didn't matter in the slightest in that brief moment.

" I love you, I loved you for so long, and the world didn't let me tell you that," he said breathing heavily against her mouth as he unbuttoned her top, freeing her heavy breasts.

"They are... As spectacular as I imagined," he said smirking and bowing to trace one nipple with his tongue.

His hot breath and the touch of his tongue made her shiver. And the goosebumps spread all over her body when he unbuttoned her pants and lowered them together with her panties and tights in a long lazy stoke against her legs.

Stepping away he looked at her and sighed, taking his own shirt off, revealing his perfect torso, caramel skin covering sizzled abs and strong arms. He was just the perfect combination of warrior and statesman, silver tongues and iron armed.

"You are so, so beautiful. I wish I had a poem ready for the occasion, but I am just lacking words, so I guess I will worship you in other ways."

When he closed her into his arms and pressed his bare skin against hers it felt like hell, heaven and everything in-between. Same as when lifted up and lowered her down on the bed spreading her legs gently, so that his tongue could find its way to the aching spot between them on the long way where lazy kisses and slow skillful licks were spread from between her breasts to her navel and finally to her throbbing core.

He was teasing her and he knew it, enjoyed it, as he always did. Who knew that the blank mind of a goddess could be filled in that way by a human.

The feeling of his body under her hands was bliss and wonder and he rejoiced in kissing all the battle scars he had gathered in their fights over the years.

"I never believed in gods, yet here I am on my knees, loving and worshiping one how I never thought I would. Stay with me, Byleth. Stay with me forever and let us forge the new world together. A better, kinder world where everyone is welcome."

"You are a dreamer..." she said kissing him gently and in awe, running her fingers through his dark hair. It felt so smooth, in contrast with the sharp hardness of his muscles.

He was true, in the core of his being he was an incurable dreamer.

"Kiss me again and make me forget once more who I am," Byleth said, lowering her head to place a kiss over his heart.

"I shall do that and much more."

The mischievous smile was nuclear fuel and Byleth let him kiss along her neck and chest ending on her lips and let her enter her firmly still gentle.

As their bodies were now entwined so were their souls that had known each other so intimately in the end and the whole world was moving as he was moving in her with the perfect arch of every delicious stroke.

" I love you, Claude!" She said when they finally climaxed together, looking into each other's eyes.

"I didn't know I was waiting for you but I was. I was waiting for you through eternity to come and awake my frozen soul."

"And I have waited for you, so we can change the world together."