Always Together, Eternally Apart

A Polin Fic for Polin Week 2025 - Day 4 - Fantasy AU

Read it here or on AO3

Rated: Teen and Up

Synopsis:

Colin and Penelope have been cursed. She is a hawk by day and human by night. He is human by day and a wolf by night. Always together, yet eternally apart.

For two years they have endured the cruel curse and they still have no idea who cast it, nor if there is any way to break it. Colin is fast losing hope that they'll ever be together again and Penelope is also starting to falter. But then, she and Eloise read a new tome that Anthony has sourced and Benedict receives a letter that just might bring them closer to revealing the person who is to blame for their suffering.

Based on the film 'Ladyhawke'

ALWAYS TOGETHER, ETERNALLY APART

The piercing screech of a hawk sliced through the early evening quiet of the moors causing Colin to turn his head and gaze skywards. In the distance, against the nearly cloudless sky, he saw the bird winging its way towards him at lightning speed.

He lifted his gauntlet covered arm in readiness and raptor circled once before landing upon the thick leather with a rapid flutter of wings. Colin quickly looked it over, checking the reddish-brown plumage, making sure that all was well before he reached out and gently placed a hood over its head, covering its large amber eyes. It was late and he couldn’t have her spying something in the distance and flying away again.

“Sorry, my love,” he murmured more for himself than the bird.

He knew well that she wouldn’t remember, but it pained him to treat her like that anyway.