Drabbles...
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nebuliaSeveral little drabble-like objects that I may or may not post on FFN...various fandoms.
I. Morning After
Rurouni Kenshin
184 words
Spoilers: none
Genre: humor/ vague romance
Warnings: hungover!Kaoru, drunk!Kenshin, plotting!Sano, vague KK
EDIT: Thanks to the lovely![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
la_pia, I have fixed the tense issues in this drabble. Now it should be better, I think.
Kaoru knows, despite her raging headache, that she's not supposed to wake up with her futon wrapped around her back like a second skin, and she also knows that she's not supposed to have eight limbs.
Conclusion: there is someone in her bed.
A second, more finite conclusion comes to her when she sees scarlet strands draping across her face and shoulder: Kenshin is in her bed.
She’s wondering exactly how much they had to drink last night when she remembers something important. A quick, horrified check, and a sigh of relief; they’re both mostly clothed—her obi’s slightly loose and his gi is falling off his arm, but it’s nothing obscene.
She thinks back and suddenly she remembers she went to bed alone last night. By herself. Without anyone there. In her room.
Which means that Kenshin...
Sanosuke, who had decided last night that it was time to make life interesting and had dragged an extremely drunk Kenshin into Kaoru’s room, winces when, as he stands by the dojo gate, he hears, “Kenshin, you idiot!”
Ah, he thinks, smiling. Just another day in paradise.
II. Family
Rurouni Kenshin
152 words
Spoilers: post-Jinchuu, but no direct spoilers for it
Genre: General/vague angst
Warnings: deadfamily!Kaoru (if that's a warning...?)
She took them to the graveyard on her birthday after Enishi’s Jinchuu, and it was as though her family had a whole corner, small, inexpensive stones, with just names and dates, all but her father’s a decade or more old.
She smiled, though, and looked actually happy, and they backed away and watched her talk to her father’s stone. Yahiko muttered, and Sano questioned her sanity, and Megumi snorted with bitter laughter, for the scene hit a little too close to home. Kenshin and Tsubame were characteristically silent, and she joined them not much later, with one last look back towards the graveyard.
When no letters came for her that day, or the day after, or the day after that, Yahiko asked why her family never sent her letters, not even on her birthday.
“That was my family,” she said, nodding in the direction of the graveyard. “You are my family now.”
III. oh, magnum mysterium
Guardians of Time Trilogy
160 words
Spoilers: the end of the series
Genre: Romance, totally.
Warnings: Ethan/Rochelle, language
The stars were always lovely here. Sometimes she got so lost in them she didn’t remember that it had been years. But she stood here, on this bridge, looking towards the odd middle spirit world that she had merely swept through in a moment.
It had been seventy years. Dylan had told her when he crossed the bridge unhesitantly, his body old and tired but his green eyes as bright as ever.
Seventy years…she tried to think of it in human terms again. Seventy years was a long time. Maybe…
She prayed he had not been somehow blessed with a gift like Arkarian’s, or, even worse, immortality.
Perhaps she was selfish, but she was all alone and watching the stars. And really, all she wanted, all she’d ever wanted really, was him. And he wasn’t coming, dammit!
She quite nearly had brust into tears, she was so frustrated, but then—
“Rochelle?”
She turned.
Ethan!
She flung herself into his arms.
IV. Oh Magnum Mysterium (similar title as above, only capitalized and without the comma...)
Abarat
112 words
Spoilers: Post Abarat, pre-Days of Magic, Nights of War
Genre: General/romance
Warnings: Slight Candy/Malingo
“Teach me what the stars mean, Malingo.”
The boat seems to be sailing itself, he muses, thoughtful. When Candy said to go to Yebba Dim Day, the tiny red craft suddenly adjusted course a little bit, and a strong wind blew through the sail.
So they lay down; she folds her arms behind her head, and hesitantly, he does the same. And they just lay, thinking, maybe, but he hardly remembered it, it was so quiet and peaceful.
And then night came and she suddenly speaks when he’d thought her asleep.
He muses at the great, beautiful mystery that is Candy Quackenbush and raises an arm to point out the first constellation.
C&C is, as always, appreciated. And if you haven't read Abarat or the Guardians of Time Trilogy, read them. Now. They're amazing, both of them.
quote of the post: "semper ubi, sub ubi" --latin pun, translated as 'Always wear underwear,' literally, 'always where under where.'
nebulia out.
I. Morning After
Rurouni Kenshin
184 words
Spoilers: none
Genre: humor/ vague romance
Warnings: hungover!Kaoru, drunk!Kenshin, plotting!Sano, vague KK
EDIT: Thanks to the lovely
la_pia, I have fixed the tense issues in this drabble. Now it should be better, I think. Kaoru knows, despite her raging headache, that she's not supposed to wake up with her futon wrapped around her back like a second skin, and she also knows that she's not supposed to have eight limbs.
Conclusion: there is someone in her bed.
A second, more finite conclusion comes to her when she sees scarlet strands draping across her face and shoulder: Kenshin is in her bed.
She’s wondering exactly how much they had to drink last night when she remembers something important. A quick, horrified check, and a sigh of relief; they’re both mostly clothed—her obi’s slightly loose and his gi is falling off his arm, but it’s nothing obscene.
She thinks back and suddenly she remembers she went to bed alone last night. By herself. Without anyone there. In her room.
Which means that Kenshin...
Sanosuke, who had decided last night that it was time to make life interesting and had dragged an extremely drunk Kenshin into Kaoru’s room, winces when, as he stands by the dojo gate, he hears, “Kenshin, you idiot!”
Ah, he thinks, smiling. Just another day in paradise.
II. Family
Rurouni Kenshin
152 words
Spoilers: post-Jinchuu, but no direct spoilers for it
Genre: General/vague angst
Warnings: deadfamily!Kaoru (if that's a warning...?)
She took them to the graveyard on her birthday after Enishi’s Jinchuu, and it was as though her family had a whole corner, small, inexpensive stones, with just names and dates, all but her father’s a decade or more old.
She smiled, though, and looked actually happy, and they backed away and watched her talk to her father’s stone. Yahiko muttered, and Sano questioned her sanity, and Megumi snorted with bitter laughter, for the scene hit a little too close to home. Kenshin and Tsubame were characteristically silent, and she joined them not much later, with one last look back towards the graveyard.
When no letters came for her that day, or the day after, or the day after that, Yahiko asked why her family never sent her letters, not even on her birthday.
“That was my family,” she said, nodding in the direction of the graveyard. “You are my family now.”
III. oh, magnum mysterium
Guardians of Time Trilogy
160 words
Spoilers: the end of the series
Genre: Romance, totally.
Warnings: Ethan/Rochelle, language
The stars were always lovely here. Sometimes she got so lost in them she didn’t remember that it had been years. But she stood here, on this bridge, looking towards the odd middle spirit world that she had merely swept through in a moment.
It had been seventy years. Dylan had told her when he crossed the bridge unhesitantly, his body old and tired but his green eyes as bright as ever.
Seventy years…she tried to think of it in human terms again. Seventy years was a long time. Maybe…
She prayed he had not been somehow blessed with a gift like Arkarian’s, or, even worse, immortality.
Perhaps she was selfish, but she was all alone and watching the stars. And really, all she wanted, all she’d ever wanted really, was him. And he wasn’t coming, dammit!
She quite nearly had brust into tears, she was so frustrated, but then—
“Rochelle?”
She turned.
Ethan!
She flung herself into his arms.
IV. Oh Magnum Mysterium (similar title as above, only capitalized and without the comma...)
Abarat
112 words
Spoilers: Post Abarat, pre-Days of Magic, Nights of War
Genre: General/romance
Warnings: Slight Candy/Malingo
“Teach me what the stars mean, Malingo.”
The boat seems to be sailing itself, he muses, thoughtful. When Candy said to go to Yebba Dim Day, the tiny red craft suddenly adjusted course a little bit, and a strong wind blew through the sail.
So they lay down; she folds her arms behind her head, and hesitantly, he does the same. And they just lay, thinking, maybe, but he hardly remembered it, it was so quiet and peaceful.
And then night came and she suddenly speaks when he’d thought her asleep.
He muses at the great, beautiful mystery that is Candy Quackenbush and raises an arm to point out the first constellation.
C&C is, as always, appreciated. And if you haven't read Abarat or the Guardians of Time Trilogy, read them. Now. They're amazing, both of them.
quote of the post: "semper ubi, sub ubi" --latin pun, translated as 'Always wear underwear,' literally, 'always where under where.'
nebulia out.
