((a/n- Too long to be a drabble, too short to be a oneshot. Maybe like a doubleshot drabble? Like espresso! Only words!))

Alice laughed delightedly, spinning in the sunlight with her bare arms flung wide. Her bare feet barely skimmed the ground and her skirt twisted around her, unable to keep up. Like some perfect, pure thing she glittered—the sun had, as she had predicted, come out after the driving rain had cleared—and was twirling in the wet grass like nobody was watching.

But of course Jasper was watching. He'd been watching her for hours—all the time they'd known each other, even if it felt like centuries—and would be watching her for eternity. He couldn't tell the future like she could, but of that he was certain. She whirled and turned faster than any human eye could have seen before glancing at him, a grin lighting up her face as if she was seeing him for the first time in years. "Look, Jasper, I sparkle!"

Jasper smiled—it was the first time he could remember genuinely smiling in a very, very long time—and nodded slowly. "Yes. You sparkle." It had always struck him as trite that his kind had sparkled, but with this creature sparkling and laughing before him… he thought maybe he'd changed his mind.

Because even if he didn't deserve it, he wanted to hear her laughing and see her sparkling and smiling and dancing on wet grass for the rest of his—their—days.