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kh_drabbleChallenge [217]: Letting Go
Title: Untitled
Word Count: 256
Characters: Yuffie, Leon, mentions of Cloud, Vincent Valentine, and Rinoa Heartily
Notes: My inner Yuffie likes to drabble. Mentions FF8 and FF7 stuff.
Yuffie sees the wings in the back of Leon's jacket, and she thinks he has a problem with letting go. She's drawn all of his stories out of him, mostly when he'd tipped the bottle back a little too far and wasn't quite drunk, but only wishing he was, and she's memorized them all like a favorite, tattered children's book. Leon's stories help her forget her own, and this is the way that she ignores the tattered maroon cloak wrapping Cloud in an aura that's too cool for him anyway. He has the same problem, she thinks, and if she didn't know better she'd say that he and Vinny must have been butt buddies.
She knows, vaguely, about Miss Rinoa Heartily and her smiley face feathers, her Angel Wings, and how she took Squall's smile to the grave. She knows that Leon has is SeeD ID number tattooed into his back and that he meticulously polishes his gunblade.
"Why don't you take off your jacket sometime?" she asks, pseudo-innocently, because she just spent an hour bawling in the Red Room closet (it's too red for her, but not bloody red, just Vinny red) and she needs a distraction.
Leon just gives her a long, hard look and asks Yuffie why she hasn't taken her materia out of her pocket.
"Touché," she replies, and mock-salutes him as she leans across the entrance of Cid's shop, not even thinking (this time) about how gay it is to go from rockets to bracelets.
She doesn't bring it up again.
Title: Untitled
Word Count: 256
Characters: Yuffie, Leon, mentions of Cloud, Vincent Valentine, and Rinoa Heartily
Notes: My inner Yuffie likes to drabble. Mentions FF8 and FF7 stuff.
Yuffie sees the wings in the back of Leon's jacket, and she thinks he has a problem with letting go. She's drawn all of his stories out of him, mostly when he'd tipped the bottle back a little too far and wasn't quite drunk, but only wishing he was, and she's memorized them all like a favorite, tattered children's book. Leon's stories help her forget her own, and this is the way that she ignores the tattered maroon cloak wrapping Cloud in an aura that's too cool for him anyway. He has the same problem, she thinks, and if she didn't know better she'd say that he and Vinny must have been butt buddies.
She knows, vaguely, about Miss Rinoa Heartily and her smiley face feathers, her Angel Wings, and how she took Squall's smile to the grave. She knows that Leon has is SeeD ID number tattooed into his back and that he meticulously polishes his gunblade.
"Why don't you take off your jacket sometime?" she asks, pseudo-innocently, because she just spent an hour bawling in the Red Room closet (it's too red for her, but not bloody red, just Vinny red) and she needs a distraction.
Leon just gives her a long, hard look and asks Yuffie why she hasn't taken her materia out of her pocket.
"Touché," she replies, and mock-salutes him as she leans across the entrance of Cid's shop, not even thinking (this time) about how gay it is to go from rockets to bracelets.
She doesn't bring it up again.
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Date: 2010-02-16 03:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-16 05:31 am (UTC)"She's drawn all of his stories out of him, mostly when he'd tipped the bottle back a little too far and wasn't quite drunk, but only wishing he was, and she's memorized them all like a favorite, tattered children's book."
That's probably my favorite line. So very Yuffie...
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Date: 2010-02-16 11:18 am (UTC)Also, 'drawing' the stories out of him was a little FF8 pun. ^^
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Date: 2010-02-17 09:42 am (UTC)Very nice and subtle, and
"Touché," she replies, and mock-salutes him as she leans across the entrance of Cid's shop, not even thinking (this time) about how gay it is to go from rockets to bracelets.
was my favourite line!
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Date: 2010-02-18 07:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-18 09:29 pm (UTC)I'm glad it felt so authentic.
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Date: 2010-02-20 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-20 03:46 pm (UTC)