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kh_drabbleChallenge: [207] Here Comes Trouble
Title: Open Your Eyes—Trouble will Find You
Wordcount: 599 exactly.
Notes: Focuses on Naminé. Also mentions Marluxia, Axel, Larxene, Riku-Replica, Sora, and Riku. Roxas is sort-of-kind-of mentioned, though you have to tilt your head and squint to realize that. Takes place during CoM. Rated PG-13 for content. I rewrote this thing three times before I was satisfied with it. x.x
I.
He finds her, and he’s all effortless grace and fluid motion, roses and twilight, soft smiles and gentle touches wrapped in black; she knows from the first moment she sees him that he is trouble: knows that there is something sinister lurking underneath all of that beauty. He’s a predator stalking his prey, and he could break her (tear her in two) if he wished to do so.
He kneels before her and she can’t look away from his eyes: they look like the ocean during a storm, and she doesn’t know how she can think of such a comparison, for she’s never seen the ocean during a storm. She’s never seen the ocean at all.
“Come with me,” he whispers, close to her ear, and it makes her shiver. “I need you.”
She should be afraid, she thinks, but she isn’t (can’t be).
In any case, when he reaches for her hand, she takes it, because nobody has ever needed her before.
II.
He finds her (right where she’s supposed to be), and he’s all sarcasm and riddles and questions, fire melting ice and eyes asking why.
But he’s burdened, too. She can sense it somehow.
“What’s troubling you?” she asks him, and his eyes widen before softening just slightly.
“Kinda missing out on a tradition back at home,” he tells her, and it makes no sense at all, but she doesn’t expect it to. He never gives straight answers, anyway.
III.
She finds her (where she isn’t supposed to be), and she smiles deadly and quick and heartlessly (how appropriate) before brandishing her knives. The air crackles with her energy.
“You’re not supposed to be in here, you know,” she says, fake sweetness. “I’ll make you remember the rules, so you won’t forget them again.”
She never forgot, but she knows Larxene has never been one for technicalities.
IV.
He finds her (again—in the garden this time, and he’s given her permission), and he’s still as graceful as ever, though something is different: he touches the bruises and scratches, presses his lips to them as gloveless fingers dance along her thighs, creeping higher.
“You won’t forget, will you, precious?” he asks her, and she closes her eyes and shakes her head, swallowing as his lips travel along her neck.
She thinks she prefers Larxene’s form of punishment over Marluxia’s form of faux-redemption.
V.
He finds her but she can’t fix him – this broken doll that Vexen created, imbued with false memories – and she wonders why her ‘gift’ that Marluxia always goes on about only seems to cause trouble for everyone else.
VI.
He finds her (this boy Marluxia told her about) and his eyes light up, and she doesn’t deserve it, because all she’s done is torn his memories apart and scattered them asunder—he just doesn’t know it yet.
She doesn’t know what she’ll do when he finds out.
VII.
He finds her again at the end (and the beginning) of it all, and he knows now, but he (with all his bravery and kindness) is not angry with her, and she doesn’t understand why.
He tells her that he made a promise and he means to keep it, real or not.
She vows to set things right, and she means to keep her promise, too.
VIII.
He finds her while she is fixing Sora’s memory—she tells him that Sora was looking for him. Apologizes for the trouble she’s caused.
He smiles and it seems wistful, longing. “I need you to take care of him for me for a little while.”
And she agrees, because somebody has never needed her before.
Title: Open Your Eyes—Trouble will Find You
Wordcount: 599 exactly.
Notes: Focuses on Naminé. Also mentions Marluxia, Axel, Larxene, Riku-Replica, Sora, and Riku. Roxas is sort-of-kind-of mentioned, though you have to tilt your head and squint to realize that. Takes place during CoM. Rated PG-13 for content. I rewrote this thing three times before I was satisfied with it. x.x
I.
He finds her, and he’s all effortless grace and fluid motion, roses and twilight, soft smiles and gentle touches wrapped in black; she knows from the first moment she sees him that he is trouble: knows that there is something sinister lurking underneath all of that beauty. He’s a predator stalking his prey, and he could break her (tear her in two) if he wished to do so.
He kneels before her and she can’t look away from his eyes: they look like the ocean during a storm, and she doesn’t know how she can think of such a comparison, for she’s never seen the ocean during a storm. She’s never seen the ocean at all.
“Come with me,” he whispers, close to her ear, and it makes her shiver. “I need you.”
She should be afraid, she thinks, but she isn’t (can’t be).
In any case, when he reaches for her hand, she takes it, because nobody has ever needed her before.
II.
He finds her (right where she’s supposed to be), and he’s all sarcasm and riddles and questions, fire melting ice and eyes asking why.
But he’s burdened, too. She can sense it somehow.
“What’s troubling you?” she asks him, and his eyes widen before softening just slightly.
“Kinda missing out on a tradition back at home,” he tells her, and it makes no sense at all, but she doesn’t expect it to. He never gives straight answers, anyway.
III.
She finds her (where she isn’t supposed to be), and she smiles deadly and quick and heartlessly (how appropriate) before brandishing her knives. The air crackles with her energy.
“You’re not supposed to be in here, you know,” she says, fake sweetness. “I’ll make you remember the rules, so you won’t forget them again.”
She never forgot, but she knows Larxene has never been one for technicalities.
IV.
He finds her (again—in the garden this time, and he’s given her permission), and he’s still as graceful as ever, though something is different: he touches the bruises and scratches, presses his lips to them as gloveless fingers dance along her thighs, creeping higher.
“You won’t forget, will you, precious?” he asks her, and she closes her eyes and shakes her head, swallowing as his lips travel along her neck.
She thinks she prefers Larxene’s form of punishment over Marluxia’s form of faux-redemption.
V.
He finds her but she can’t fix him – this broken doll that Vexen created, imbued with false memories – and she wonders why her ‘gift’ that Marluxia always goes on about only seems to cause trouble for everyone else.
VI.
He finds her (this boy Marluxia told her about) and his eyes light up, and she doesn’t deserve it, because all she’s done is torn his memories apart and scattered them asunder—he just doesn’t know it yet.
She doesn’t know what she’ll do when he finds out.
VII.
He finds her again at the end (and the beginning) of it all, and he knows now, but he (with all his bravery and kindness) is not angry with her, and she doesn’t understand why.
He tells her that he made a promise and he means to keep it, real or not.
She vows to set things right, and she means to keep her promise, too.
VIII.
He finds her while she is fixing Sora’s memory—she tells him that Sora was looking for him. Apologizes for the trouble she’s caused.
He smiles and it seems wistful, longing. “I need you to take care of him for me for a little while.”
And she agrees, because somebody has never needed her before.
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Date: 2009-11-13 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-13 09:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-14 12:09 am (UTC);_;
*cling*
This is beautiful.
I think that's all I need to say.
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Date: 2009-11-14 01:26 am (UTC)(kinda missing out on a tradition back at home" caused an extra-special bit of squee, however, and oh, the marluxia/naminé hints. ♥)
it's lovely. ♥
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Date: 2009-11-14 04:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-14 04:37 am (UTC)I have turned into such a Marluxia/Naminé fan. :) I even did one of those 50 sentences things for them! Of course I can't post it here, but it'll be posted over at the Marluxia/Naminé comm soonish.
I couldn't not have Axel kinda talk about Roxas.
Again, thank you. And sheesh, my comment got rambly.
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Date: 2009-11-14 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-14 08:02 pm (UTC)The last one is indeed Riku. You guessed correctly~.
And just so you'll know the others:
I. Marluxia
II. Axel (I sure thought the 'fire melting ice' part would give that one away~).
III. Larxene
IV. Marluxia, again
V. Replica-Riku
VI. Sora
VII. Sora again
VIII. Aaaand you already guessed Riku. ^_^
Glad you like it~. <33333
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Date: 2009-11-14 10:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-17 12:11 pm (UTC)This is so lovely.
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Date: 2009-11-19 11:38 pm (UTC)