Back to You
By Misha
Disclaimer- Not mine. I’m just borrowing them for a little while and will return them when I am finished.
Author’s Notes- I got a request for a Craig/Zahra fic with the line “sometimes I wish I could just close my eyes and go back to the way we were”. It took me a while to complete because Craig and Zahra were tricky to get just right. I love them, but I’m not sure I can do them justice. This is set immediately after the New Year’s Eve kiss.
Pairing- Craig/Zahra
Rating- PG-13
Summary- Craig and Zahra talk after their kiss.
Words- 465
Craig and Zahra broke apart from the kiss, both a little dazed.
“Do you want to get out of here?” Craig asked after a moment.
Zahra nodded. “Yeah.”
The two of them got up, careful not to touch or really look at each other and headed inside. They head back to the room where they’d been playing video games.
“So…” Craig said awkwardly.
“Yeah,” Zahra said, looking away and wondering why it was so hard to talk to him. Why it had always been so hard.
“We just…” Craig began.
“Yeah, we did,” Zahra said, flopping down on the bed. She sighed. “Don’t ask me what it means,” she told him, “I just… It felt right.”
“Yeah, it did,” Craig told her, sitting down beside her. “It’s the first thing that’s felt right in a long time, Z.”
“Me too,” She admitted, she looked at him, thinking about the way she’d pushed him away, “Sometimes I wish I could just close my eyes and go back to the way we were.”
Craig was silent for a long moment. “I don’t think I want that,” he said finally.
Zahra felt like he’d punched her in the gut. “I… You…” She wanted to scream at him or wanted to cry, mostly she just felt like such an idiot. This is why she didn’t let people in.
“That’s not what I mean,” Craig rushed out, “gah, I suck at this.”
“Yeah, you really do,” Zahra said, getting off the bed and glaring at him.
“I mean, I miss you Z, every single day,” Craig told her, “and I miss us, but I don’t miss the way we didn’t talk about anything or how we pretended not to care about each other. If this damn island has taught me anything, it’s that life is too short for that.”
Oh.
“I want to be with you,” Craig continued, “I’m sick of pretending I don’t. My life hasn’t been the same without you.”
“Neither has mine,” Zahra admitted, she sat back down on the bed and pulled Craig into another kiss. They stayed like that for a long moment, savoring the feel of each other, until they were both flushed and panting for breath.
“So are we…” Craig asked after a moment.
“Yeah, we are,” Zahra told him, “just don’t make a big deal of it.”
“I wouldn’t dream of it,” Craig assured her, before covering her mouth in another kiss.
Zahra kissed him back, wondering if it was crazy to feel this happy given their current circumstances. Of course, it was being on the island that had made Zahra realizes just how precious life was and how she didn’t want to have any regrets, so…
For once she was going to savor the moment and worry about everything else tomorrow.
- End
