1948, Near Noank, Connecticut

[keptherwaiting]

Following the coastal road extends their time spent driving but Jasper doesn’t mind. He enjoys listening to Alice talking and singing along with the radio, watching out the window as they pass through town after town.

They don’t stop unless absolutely necessary, avoiding human interaction after the almost-slip in the movie theater. It’s stops just for gas and then finally a longer stretch when Alice demands Jasper take the wheel and learn how to drive.

Which he does, with a few stops and starts along the way until he can get the hang of it, and then Alice settles back to read to him aloud from one the new books she’d bought.

Until - “Oh, here!” - and she directs him toward the outskirts of a little coastal town of Connecticut before they reach Rhode Island.

She’s murmuring the directions to him, until he has the car hidden and parked away from any main roads.

“Alice - what - ?” He’s laughing. “Are we about to commit grand larceny?”

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[keptherwaiting]

"I'm not that old," Jasper growls as he carries her into the water again.

Though, she is quite the handful, and sometimes he wonders if he can keep up with her.

Not today, though.

[betagainstme]

"You're right--you've got centuries to go, my love," Alice murmurs, turning his head so she can kiss him again.

Centuries of this. And her being a handful.

"I love you," she whispers against his lips. "So very, very much."

[keptherwaiting]

“I love you too,” as he maneuvers her so he can thrust inside of her again. The movements slow and gentle, in stark contrast to the word that had been volleyed between them only moments ago.

Because when she talks so sweetly -

“Centuries of this. Of us.”

He’s only waist-deep in the water and he uses the ebb and flow of the waves to guide his movements.

[betagainstme]

She gasps, arching into him as he pushes inside of her again. Her hands cup his face, eyes on his as they move together in the water.

The slow, gentle movements between them give her ample time to focus on the feelings he pulls from her. The way love and desire intermingle and concentrate low in her; how quickly she's already feeling that burn and tangle in her belly, overwhelmed by their love, sensitive from their coupling moments earlier.

"Forever," Alice whispers, her hips tilting to meet his. "Forever, and ever, Jasper, God, I love you--"

[keptherwaiting]

“ - God, forever sounds good.”

His hands cupped around her ass, he moves her against him, with him, keeping pace with the waves.

“Never really - shit - thought about time much before. Just kept goin’, day after day. But I want that with you. This. Fuck, baby.”

He kisses her again, nipping at her bottom lip before licking his way inside her mouth.

[betagainstme]

Alice moans into his mouth, her hands slipping at his shoulders, redoubling their efforts to hold onto him.

Her legs tremble, her knees pressing into his sides to hold on. Pulling back, her teeth grazing his lip, she locks her gaze on his again. "Look at me, Jasper, I'm not lookin' away this time--"

Her lips twitch before gasping sharply as she rolls her hips against his. "Fuck--God, Jasper."

[keptherwaiting]

His gaze flicks to her, his nose pressed to hers. His eyes are dark but with hunger only for her.

“ - Not to - ah - stare aggressively?”

His laugh is breathless, a puff against her lips, as close as he is to her.

He rolls his hips against the waves now, wanting to hear her gasp again. To feel it, as her legs tighten around him all the more, and as she clenches around him, so tight already.

[betagainstme]

The noise that leaves her is more whine than anything else, her eyelashes fluttering, but she keeps her gaze on him, one hand sliding into his hair as she tilts her hips to meet him.

The other hand slips between them, touching herself to stoke the fire in her, her knees shaking at his sides, gasping, kissing him, pulling back again to watch him.

"I love you," Alice whispers. "I love you."

[keptherwaiting]

He’s the one to break her gaze this time - only for a moment when he glances down, watching as she touches herself - and then he’s locking his gaze with hers again.

“I love you too,” he breathes.

It is intense. His gaze on her, hungry yet full of love, brimming with it, and hers meeting his, just as intense, the love and hunger there too.

[betagainstme]

It's almost a surprise when she comes--she didn't expect it to happen that fast (though, her visions swimming in the back of her mind did try to warn her).

She stiffens in his arms, shaking, her hand tight at the back of his neck as she forces herself to keep looking at him, eyebrows drawn tightly together as she spasms around him, her thighs aching and trembling. Gasping in sharp breaths, her hips tilted flush against his, her hand trapped between them, a needy noise escaping her.

"Fuck, yes, God--" Alice babbles, her fingers tight, tight, at his neck.

[keptherwaiting]

For all of his powers, and it surprises Jasper too. The sudden rush and onslaught of her feelings cascades over him, and he’s scrambling with his hold on her as he presses into her fully, quickly following her with his own release.

“Shit,” he gasps, when he can, the breath knocked out of him by the force of it all.

He’s trembling against her, and his fingers spasm with a shiver that has him adjusting his grip on her in fear of dropping her.

“Fuck.”

He hasn’t lost it that fast since -

“Jesus.”

- his first time?

“Fuck.”

His chest is heaving as he blinks at her, gaze still heavy on her, forehead still pressed to her, and then he laughs.

“I love you.”

And, “Fuck. Shit. Jesus.”

Because, damn.

[betagainstme]

She laughs, helplessly, still sucking in deep breaths as she presses her forehead against his, fingers combing through his hair as she trembles in his arms.

"I love you, too," Alice whispers, nipping at his bottom lip, pressing kisses against the corner of his mouth. "I love you so much."

[keptherwaiting]

Jasper closes his eyes as she kisses him, to revel in the feel of her lips against him and the feelings between them. He sighs, happy and content.

And he is. So happy.

He smiles as he blinks open his eyes and focuses on her face again.

“I love you.”

He shifts then, pulling out of her with a soft noise of regret, but he keeps her close, one arm looped beneath her, holding her up as he runs his other along her back.

“And you’re still covered in sand,” he murmurs. He cups his hand, collecting water in his palm, and then lets it trickle down her back, washing away some of it.

[betagainstme]

"Just dunk me," Alice laughs, shivering at the loss of him, the water trailing down her skin.

Her hands tighten at his shoulders as she leans back. "You can let me go, I won't get swept away by currents. I may be tiny but I'm still a vampire, you know."

She's laughing again, the ends of her hair dipping into the water.

[keptherwaiting]

“But I don’t want to let you go,” he says with a laugh as he holds her steady.

He dips her further back into the water, allowing the water to soak through to her strands more before he pulls her back up again.

“Just got to get this sand off you.”

[betagainstme]

When he pulls her back up, she presses a kiss against his lips, sweet and soft. Her wet hands drag through his hair, pushing his wayward curls out of his face, smoothing them back.

"Where shall we go next?" Alice murmurs, her fingers fiddling with a curl. "Or should we just post up here at the beach and never ever leave?"

[keptherwaiting]

“Hm, would you live here forever with me?” he asks, laughing.

“What about all you stuff? Your clothes? Your car? Because in my version of our life here, we’re just naked the whole time.”

[betagainstme]

"See, I worry because the world is expanding so quickly and I know that humans are going to push into this area--not to mention the technology that will be developed and they're gonna find us...and we're gonna get in trouble for living naked at the beach." Alice grins.

"So it's best that we wear clothes at least sometimes. Also I forgot: I don't really like the sand getting everywhere so I guess we have to move to somewhere without sand. 'Cause if I'm gonna be naked most of the time, I don't want to also be gritty, you know?"

[keptherwaiting]

“All valid points.”

Humans and sand just ruin everything.

“Where else can we live naked then?“

He’s very invested in the naked part.

[betagainstme]

"Now, you know I can't agree to the naked part," Alice sighs sadly. "I have all those pretty underthings I bought...and the ones I'm going to make Delly send me...

"I don't think you want to miss those, my love."

[keptherwaiting]

“Oh, right, the underthings!”

Well, damn.

“ - Suppose we’ll just leave naked beach living for an every now and then kind of thing.”

[betagainstme]

Alice laughs joyfully, peppering his face with kisses.

"You're perfect," she sighs, crossing her ankles together at his back, pressing more kisses against his cheeks.

[keptherwaiting]

“I’m perfect because you’re perfect and we’re perfect,” he says with a laugh as he responds to her affection by kissing her cheeks in return.

He loves that he can be silly with her like this and it all seems like some dream too. Like he’s actually sitting in some forest somewhere, petrifying.

But, he isn’t.

“I love you.”

[betagainstme]

"I love you," Alice whispers, her hand coming to sit over his chest, where his heart is. "Now put me down."

Her ankles uncross at his back and she'll give him a few seconds to put her down before she starts trying to wriggle out of his arms.

"I wanna just stand in the ocean for a minute."

[keptherwaiting]

One more kiss, and then Jasper sets her down, sensing the impending impatience that would have her wiggling out of his arms anyway.

“Stand away,” he says with a laugh when the water reaches higher on her than it does on him.

He splashes her with a wave before he ducks down to wash the sand from his hair and scrub it from his shoulders.