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I've actually written a Cloud/Leon drabble... Why?!?! Has the Sephiroth/Cloud fangirl within me died? [I blame you, gysecune. Nyah. :-P]

Also, I am really, really bored, so if someone wants to give me a drabble idea...? Please?

Challenge: Tough Love

Title: Sea Level Rising

Word Count: 225

Other: Keep telling yourself that looking is enough. [one-sided (or is it?) Cloud/Leon]

Did he or did he not care? Certainly he never overflowed with sap, but that wasn’t his way. He was never cruel or dismissive, but his inner knight wouldn’t let him be either, no matter how offensive he thought himself. (He didn’t really judge himself objectively – he quite underestimated his own abilities – but perhaps he didn’t want to see himself crystal-clear, fearful of what lurked underneath the surface of the reflection in the mirror.)

How could one know what, exactly, he was thinking? Would life really be better if his every thought were laid open to the world for their examination? (It wouldn’t – life never is as perfect as it should be – but it was a wish to think of when you blew out the birthday candles on a sickly-sweet confection covered with rainbow dots.) After all, even if he cared, could the ice melt without drowning them both?

That was a good question, actually. If his ice wall crumbled down, would it transform into a rushing stream of water, choking Cloud, sucking him in with irresistible gravity and flooding his lungs before he could even summon the presence of mind to scream?

One could never know without trying, and he wasn’t stupid enough to attempt it. Simply looking was enough – barely so, but he had survived before he had ever seen those sea-deep eyes.