Here with me by Anonymous Rated: T Words: 4519 Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Category: F/M Characters: Theon/Jeyne Summary: We are never here. We are always almost there. Moments of a life in Braavos.

This is an absolutely beautiful future-fic about Theon and Jeyne living on the Iron Islands post-war/canon, learning to heal and live and find sexual pleasure together, and falling in love as well! It imagines a tender and endlessly hopeful and happy future for them, although not an unrealistic one and not one that's unaffected by what they've lived through and suffered.The progression of their relationship from slightly-flirty friends to lovers to...well, I don't want to spoil it ;) is very natural and gorgeously done. They have deep and meaningful conversations about relationships and desire and what those things mean, as well as their pasts and the people who have meant a lot to them. (Theon is as angsty about Robb as you might expect, for one.) It's also so wonderful, a fairly refreshing in post-canon fic, to see Theon in a position where he has to relearn and adapt to a lot of things but he’s still confidant and the one one with more experience on the subject (of sex) and takes the lead.

Outside of just the relationship with Jeyne, this post-canon world around Theon is so beautiful drawn, with a masterful use of language and descriptions. The cameos we get of other characters - Alannys and Asha, and the servants Jeyne befriends - help to make this world feel very fleshed out and lived in, not just a bubble wherein only the central couple exist. There's incredible attention to detail in everything too, including the non-romantic/sexual aspects of Jeyne's and Theon's lives (even if they aren't as much of the focus) so the whole thing feels very balanced and an enrapturing slice or life where our faves (re)discovery themselves and each other.