Title: "So They Dance"

Summary: Poem about Adrien and Mel through James POV

Rating: PG-13 for some sexual innuendo

Spoilers/Timeline: Second book

Characters: Mel, Adrien, James

So They Dance

So they dance.

He tries not to mind.

Those two, his wife and her friend,

Or rather, her God,

have known greater intimacies.

They’ve touched the most personal,

explored the most erotic

aspects of sex and love.

So what’s dancing?

It’s harmless, it’s nothing,

He prays anyway.

Prays when his friend’s hands steal over his woman

She doesn’t revisit frissons of pleasure.

Hopes the stomp of heels doesn’t make her remember

The pounding of her heart and

The pleasured pressure

Of her Prince’s lovemaking.

He prays and is afraid

Because he knows it does.

She remembers the love and lust

When she dances with her old flame.

But then, he was no fire, he was the water.

Dulcet and soothing

Giving a unique brand of fulfillment.

That’s what, so she says, he was as a lover.

But as a dancer, he’s as cool as Lucifer.

Must be those years of famine without her

That’s made him so hot.

So that’s what dancing is

The only abandoned passion they may have

With each other.

He knows this, so now

Their dancing sickens his heart.