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[Open] Time for some enjoyment

WHO: Iskandar and OPEN
WHAT: Iskandar is here to have a good time. Join him?
WHEN: Throughout Drakonis
WHERE: Skyhold and other fun places
NOTES: Probably lots of cute times. Maybe some sad times depending on the threads. But mostly a lot of cute and loud affection. Because Iskandar.

A. It's a new dog!

He'd been wanting one since first seeing the mabari. Now he had one of his own. A fine pup who tended to spend much of his time tripping over his own feet but was ever eager to be with and please the large man. Really he'd been told that an older dog would be recommended but they'd laid eyes on each other and that had been that. After all, once that bond was formed there simply was no going back.

And so one could find him with a puppy in one of the more open areas. They were training and it seemed that the puppy was at least rather intelligent at picking up on things! So long as Iskandar used his native tongue for the commands, something he'd decided to do just to solidify their bond further.

"Heh. What a clever boy you are, my Achilles Alexander!" The pup gave a bark and then happily ate up the piece of meat that he was given. And yes, Iskandar sure had named this dog after himself.

B. Training is important

The best way to perfect how one used their adjusted powers was to, well, use them. So he was around the training grounds to work with the couple of them that he felt could safely be done here. Name the teleportation and invisibility ones. So it was easy enough to spot him standing in one location only to reappear in another. At times he frowned and rubbed his beard as he considered what he'd been doing before trying again.

One could feel free to interrupt him though. He wasn't needing the concentration to do this really.

C. Memories rise to the surface

There were times when even Iskandar needed a moment to reflect, to think on the sadder days. Though he never regretted any of them that hardly meant they didn't weight on his heart. Many had been lost under his command or had given up much to follow him. Then there were times when he remembered Hephaestion and how perhaps he would never see him again. Or that his son would be someone he'd never lay eyes on.

So he was in the gardens with a kitten and a mabari pup curled up together on his lap. Both were sound asleep as if they'd been playing hard until that moment. He smiled down at them fondly, stroked their soft ears as he admired their pure innocence.

"It has been long since I had your purity, little ones."

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"To be placed into a time where all is well compared to where you were is odd, isn't it." He actually understood well what that was like. When he'd died he'd been in great mourning for his dear friend. Upon being summoned that time had passed long ago and he'd needed to live a new life. Of course he had walked it as he would any life but it didn't stop it from being odd in his eyes. Almost a little painful if he allowed it to be.

"Things can take place so quickly and we are not always allowed enough time to mourn as we would like to. It is one of the wonders of any world from what I have seen. Tragedies take place and yet the world continues to walk forward whether people are ready to step onto the path or nor. And so it becomes up to us what we will do with the time we are given."

Iskandar was moving so the blade barely missed his feet. Another person might not be so prepared for that though which pleased him. Quick thinking like that could save Waver's life in the future. Grinning, he waited for him to finish falling then went to rush for him just to force him to use his position on the ground to roll away.

"So I see! Rather clever!"

Waver does roll, roll right out of the line of fire. He's panting now, and holds up a hand.

"Thanks, but I think I need a minute," he said miserably. "Sorry."

His endurance still needed work.

Iskandar gave a laugh, resting his sword on his shoulder while he held out his hand to help Waver back to his feet.

"Come, boy. We shall have some water then and you can rest for awhile. It will help your body to be ready for the next time we spar."

Waver gratefully took the hand, allowing himself to be hauled back up. Sweat poured down his face, and his breath was heavy. For all that he wanted to be better at this, Waver had zero cardiovascular endurance. It wasn't ideal.

"Thanks. Pick me up if I fall over while walking, yeah?

"Well, we don't know that," Hermione breathed out, speaking quickly as she slipped the pendant back under her shirt. "There could have been all sorts of confessions or secrets. We all have a few things that we may choose not to say to a person unless we're reasonably certain we'll never see him or her again, after all." Realizing who she was talking to and how forthcoming he was, she corrected herself. "Well... most of us do, anyway."

Still, that didn't minimize the fact that someone clearly had had something to tell her, and she shifted a little, vaguely uncomfortable. Talking about this sort of thing never had been easy, after all. Not even with Harry.

"I haven't told him yet. What he'd said. I'm not sure I should...."

"I wouldn't necessarily say 'all is well' in this time," he says softly, giving a slightly amused huff. It's just the future was that much worse. After saying such Sam gives another sigh, bringing a hand up around Iskandar's arm and lightly allowing his fingers to run along the muscled flesh there.

"I think that's my problem right there. The world didn't go forward from that point, I went backwards. I feel the need to mourn, I have all the time in the world to do so, but then at the same time there isn't a need to do so... you're all here. I've woken Jim up several times because of the confusion, the nightmares."

"Should I carry you?"

Already he was leaning over so that way he could see if he should pick him up. It would likely drive Waver crazy but he wasn't thinking about that part. It just seemed more practical to carry him honestly

"Mm. It could influence a great deal but I think you should follow your instincts on this. If you feel that you should not tell him then you should not."

Her head was good at this and he wanted to encourage her to continue to use it. Then she could forge her own path. Strong women like this deserved so much encouragement considering how people could view them as weaker. Not him though. He knew better than all of that.

"You are right though. I believe strongly in never having a regret so I share all that I have at all times."

Waver groaned, clamping one hand to his forehead.

"Not immediately, you oaf! Just if I'm going to pass out!"

"But I want to." She cringed even as she said it. Hermione didn't usually flip-flop on her answers, but when it came to matters of romance, she really didn't have much of a leg to stand on. She hadn't been interested in very many boys while growing up, and not many had been interested in her in turn, so it was all still something very new for her, even if she was no longer a teenager.

Sighing deeply, Hermione absently combed her fingers through her hair, letting herself focus more on the tangles they snagged on then on what she was actually saying.

"I want to tell him, but I don't know that it would be fair. There's... someone back home. Someone I care for very much. And if I get attached and then find my way back or he finds himself here-.... But then, I've been here a year already, and only one person from home has found his way here. And we're really no step closer to discovering how to send rifters back, if anyone is even focused on that at all anymore. I just... don't know what to do."

"Ah now that I understand well. When I died it was in mourning but when I was summoned again the time for mourning was no longer there. It is not so easy to keep moving when your heart tells you to still look back."

He looked up at the stars, the ones he was familiar with now but so different from those of his home. Beautiful in the sky. Always continuing on no matter what happened here below. It was something true in any world based on his experiences. "Mourn now. I will not stop you. Take this time here where you are safe to."

"Or I could just carry you then we never have to fear you passing out for you will already be in my arms."

Which he said as he moved like he was going to gather him up right then and there.

"Ahhhh. So that is what happened. You gave your heart already but now you have to deal with the result of another giving you their heart too. And you are not at all like myself and able to give as freely." He sighed in understanding and reached out to gather her over to him. It wasn't long before he was very carefully working tangles out of her hair. It was gentle, never pulling. Just unweaving anything he found to knot.

"May I hear about this boy you care for back home?"

He had no desire to offer more advice until he heard her speak of this other person. It was surprisingly important to this moment.

"Damnit, I'm not nineteen, you don't have to!"

Tired as Waver was, he could at least scoot ahead out of range.

Hermione wasn't sure what Iskandar meant by her not being like him and able to give freely, but she was already being folded into his embrace and dealing with the unusual sensation of someone else's fingers threading through her hair. It wasn't necessarily uncomfortable - she didn't think anything could be properly uncomfortable with Iskandar, given the way she settled against him - but it wasn't something she was used to.

"Ron? He's... he's my best friend. Well, aside from Harry, of course, but that's different. Harry has always been like a brother. Ron... even when we were children, it wasn't quite like that. We'd argue. We'd tease. We'd scold one another. Well-... I mostly scolded him." A small smile had crept its way onto her lips as she thought of him, though she didn't seem to realize it. "I think we both always sort of knew something was different, though we didn't really realize it until we got older. And by then, we had other things to worry about. So we've never really acknowledged our feelings, not until the war was over and we had to accept the fact that we'd kissed during the final battle and so things would change. But we'd decided, since I was going to finish my last year of school and he was going to train to be an Auror, we'd wait until the end of the school year and then we'd focus on us. We figured that, now that the war was over, we'd have time."

She paused for a long moment, that smile slowly fading from both her face and from the tone of her voice. "But then I woke up here," she said at last. "And that was more than a year ago. And I haven't seen Ron since. So we didn't really have much time at all."

It sounded like a completely different instance of what he was referring to, but it did sound like Iskandar understood how he felt very well. Something about that, the comforting way his lover embraced him and told him to mourn... it loosened a bit of tension that lingered.

Sam lets out a heavy sigh at that point, seemingly curling into Iskandar's warm as they sat there, just watching the fire as the man stared at the stars. "Thank you. You know... for hearing me out" A pause. "Though I wasn't planning our trip to out like this," he mutters a bit sheepishly.

"I'm not sure what your age has to do with it. I just like to hold you."

And he enjoyed looking for reasons to do it. Probably to the irritation of Waver but that was sort of how their relationship went. It was a weird sort of affection between them that likely made no sense to the outside world.

As he listened to her talk about him, he could just hear the level of affection she had for this Ron. She truly cared about him, cherished him. That was not something so easily let go of and it made sense she would have hesitations now.

"But is he the one you want to be with? To devote your heart to?"

That was the really important thing here in his eyes.

"Sometimes it is not what we plan but what surprises us that is the most important. You need this and I am here for you." He pressed a kiss to the side of his head then smiled fondly at him.

"I will be hear to listen to you anytime you need it. Or simply to hold you without a single word spoken. Whatever will help you to lift the weight your heart carries for a time. For in the end you are not alone in this."

She didn't know how Iskandar managed to always make things sound so simple, especially when they very much weren't. Closing her eyes, Hermione tried to remember the few times that she and Ron had managed to have together wherein they'd finally been able to act like something of a couple. She found that those memories have grown hazy, as though they'd happened to someone else, in another lifetime, and she was beginning to hate herself for it.

"Yes. But I don't know if I'll ever see him again. It's like trying to stay devoted to a ghost. Oh, I feel horrible just for saying that, but it's true. He's not dead to me. But for all the time we've been apart and may continue being apart...."

Waver flushed red at that, his squawking morphing into stutters and then a final huff. Something about Iskandar brought such reactions out in Waver.

"I just am a little unsure about doing that in public, that's all!"

Not that Iskandar would accept such an excuse, but Waver already knew that. An argument also meant he could keep himself upright for a while longer.

The kiss is simple, but it brings a small smile to Sam's lips - that and the soft brush of the man's beard. He already knew his lover would do all those things, which hadn't taken long to learn after his first night in meeting the Rifter, but hearing it and feeling his presence did help.

"That... goes both ways you know. If you needed to talk about something or... just needed someone to sit with you. I can't imagine all of this is quite as easy as you make it out sometimes."

"Perhaps but if your heart is not ready to let him go then he is still the man for you." Iskandar knew that continuing to remain devoted to those you hadn't seen in years was not easy. Still he loved those men and women with all his heart. "However, if you feel you are ready to move down another path then know that you do not betray him."

He went to cup her face so he could press a kiss to her temple then wrapped his arms around her once more.

"You have waited long and you can wait more. You have done well, my girl. I have such pride in you for how well you have done to be this loyal to him. He has no idea the treasure he has in you."

"Oh is that it? Mm. Silly but I suppose if you are going to insist."

Obviously he wasn't believing him and the look he gave said as much. Somehow it seemed as though Waver hadn't won this battle at all despite the fact that Iskandar was allowing him this.

"We should hurry along then so you do not require such carrying."

Because he was ready to sweep him up in a second.

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