Title: Desire
Author: Margaret Brown, aka Andromeda Valentine
Fandom: Mutant X
Pairing: Emma/Shalimar
Rating: R
Status: New (01/25/03); Complete
Archive: Yes to list archives, anyone else please ask first.
Feedback: Yes, please!!
E-mail address for feedback: andromeda_valentine@hotmail.com
Series/Sequel: None
Other Websites: Crimson Redd - https://www.angelfire.com/goth/crimsonredd
Disclaimers: Not mine, and likely never will be...

Summary: "Desire walks on - it wants to be held, possessed..."

Notes: Variations on a theme, just in another fandom - I'm suffering from a villanelle addiction these days, it's an amazing poetic form to play with... The two lines I used are actually the opening couplet to the spoken intro track 'Desire' on Heart's 'Desire Walks On' album...

Warnings: Explicit femmeslash (duh!)

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'Desire walks on - it wants to be held, possessed.'
Feral senses taste the lust in the air, rising with the heat.
'It wants consummation - it moves on, obsessed...'

Want and need, kept buried, never before confessed,
rise as the heart races, beat by beat.
'Desire walks on - it wants to be held, possessed.'

Will stretches, breaks, shatters, mouths pressed
for the taste of first kisses hot and sweet.
'It wants consummation - it moves on, obsessed...'

Words spoken not quite in jest
now prove to have been the hunt - advance, retreat, advance, retreat...
'Desire walks on - it wants to be held, possessed.'

Knowing mouth roams, provoking sensation only dimly guessed
at before, world spinning, sparking, exploding under still feet.
'It wants consummation - it moves on, obsessed...'

Golden head rests on pale white breast,
listening in silence as mind and body struggle once again to meet.
'Desire walks on - it wants to be held, possessed.'
'It wants consummation - it moves on, obsessed...'