Seeing in the New Year! (For Will)

[thewinterlady]

If she was honest, she probably could have stayed at the party a little longer, but she realised early in the evening that she didn't really want to be there. She had fun and she was glad to have seen Thea, but her heart wasn't in it. Her heart was back at Bramford with Will and now she was itching to get back there, back to him, to see in the new year with the person she wanted to spend the next one with.

She looked at her watch again as she reached their building and dashed up the stairs, tapping in the code to open the front door and then heading straight to Will's apartment. She straightened her hair and knocked, bouncing from foot to foot, with the cold and with the determination to get her lips on his before midnight.

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[wgraham]

Will hadn't been waiting around for Molly to come home exactly, but he hadn't really been able to sit still knowing she was out at the party. He was relieved that she hadn't asked him to go with her, even just the idea of being in such a large crowd making his anxiety flare, though he would have gone if she'd wanted him to.

Still, being apart from Molly made Will feel a little bereft these days, the distance between them yawning like an emptiness inside him. He could tell when she came back to the building, warmth blooming around him, and he stood inside his door, waiting for the knock to come.

He closed his eyes when he heard it, filling his senses with her and then moving to open his door, the sight of her taking his breath away. He smiled and reached out to take her hand, drawing her into his apartment and closing the door behind her. "How was the party?" he asked her, taking her other hand, barely resisting the urge to take her fully into his arms and not let her go until morning.