How Green Becomes Wood

"It was one of the best days of my life." Dark said, folding his arms over his chest and looking over the pond.

"I wanted to make you feel special," Daizi hummed, tossing another handful of peas.

"And you succeeded," He replied, "It certainly made my proposal look pitiful in comparison."

"It made sense given the state of our relationship at the time."
 
He shrugged, "I just got down on my knees in at our favourite café, the one she took me too. And I say knees, because I was so worked up I forgot it is only meant to be one."

"He cried in my lap and I thought he was about to tell me he was dying," Daizi confided to Alec as an aside.

"There really were no frills or elegance to it, but I was so sure it was something to do just to make adopting easier, so I had not planned for it to be more than a... Buisness proposition. Then as I was attempting to express how I felt, I was overcome with how deeply my desire to be her husband were."
 
"And he did it on his lunchbreak at the school," Daizi grinned, "So afterwards, he just had to go back to work as if he had not just gotten engaged. And I just went back to our empty home, although obviously I immediately set about calling just about every single person I knew."
 
"Believe me, I realized that failing very quickly," Dark drawled, watching Ivy's delight as she tossed the peas and squealed, "I decided I would just do it at our usual date---"

"My office still gave us one Friday a month where we worked half a day, so when he had a break period which lined up when my train would make it back here, we'd go to lunch," Daizi interjected.

"And all day I had her engagement ring burning my pocket. About ten minutes into the school day I realized my life was going to be fundamentally altered regardless of her answer, so I ought to have planned my day around that fact, but I already had the ring with me, and I had already worked up the courage to ask, I could not back out and survive it."

"Believe me, I knew from the first word he said to me there was something going on," Daizi said dryly, while entwining her fingers with her husband's. "But I wouldn't want to be proposed to in any other way: it was messy, but I was in my late twenties and had never felt so loved."
 
"That is still one of the most romantic stories I've heard in a while," Alec giggled. "It's hard to imagine you doing something like that now, Ba, and yet, at the same time, it does feel very You."
 
"It was one of the scariest things I have ever had to do." Dark smiled at the memory, but it was obscured by how he rested his face against Daizi's hair.

"It worked out," Daizi said, "We have everything we hoped for back then."

"We really do."

"We're never going to get Ivy away from these ducks."

"No, we will not."
 
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