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Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Pairing: Squall "Leon" Leonhart x Aerith Gainsborough
Theme set: Delta
Rating: T
001.___ Air
“Like the sky,” she says, when they first meet, when he says her name wrong.
002.___ Apples
It’s silly, she thinks, but if she ever fell into an unending sleep and was cursed until her true love kissed her, she would choose him before any other.
003.___ Beginning
It took five years of friendship and three years of closely depending on each other before the beginning of their relationship could start.
004.___ Bugs
He almost smiles when she climbs onto a chair to avoid the tiny thing, and has to call Yuffie - who chooses to show off and pin it to the floor with a shuriken - to exterminate it.
005.___ Coffee
It’s four a.m. and she’s still lashed up on a caffeine buzz, and despite the fact that he is exhausted, he indulges her in one last game of cards.
006.___ Dark
This is so silly, he wants to say, as she ties the blindfold around his eyes - but it all seems much more worth it when he trusts her and her hands find his and lead him through the dark.
007.___ Despair
It’s always darkest before it goes pitch black - Leon has had this etched into his mind for fourteen years, and he still can’t bring up the courage to cling to her hands while waiting for it to happen.
008.___ Doors
Six-year-old Yuffie slammed the bedroom door harder than they had ever heard before, and the two settled down on the outside - together - for a long two hours trying to coax her into loving them again.
009.___ Drink
If he had told her once, he had told her a million times - he didn’t like milk in his soda, or other such strange combinations - but that never stopped him from cringing and drinking it anyway.
010.___ Duty
Why do you always insist on taking care of me, she demands, when you’re the one that needs someone to help them?
011.___ Earth
She’s lying in the garden, among the plants and the earth and the flowers, and despite the fact that her dress and hair will be plastered in dirt, she doesn’t seem to mind, because from here, she doesn’t have to worry about the stress of boys.
012.___ End
Cid gets frustrated easily, and can’t stand it when people wait around for things to happen, so when he gets tired of watching Aerith throw Leon looks from across the table, he marches over to her side of the table, picks her up, and dumps her in Leon’s lap, and everyone knows it’s the end of a long hesitation.
013.___ Fail
Yuffie returns home alone one day, blood smeared across her face and the odd cut here or there oozing trickles of thick crimson, only to have Aerith ask what happened, only to have to tell her, through tears, that Leon’s gone.
014.___ Fire
When he says he’ll be her knight, he says it with burning eyes and a burning face, and she knows it’ll always be true.
015.___ Flexible
Her knees are almost touching her shoulders, and as he slides into her, he’s suddenly very pleased with how flexible she is.
016.___ Flying
Sometimes Leon wonders if he only loves her because she reminds him of a girl who flew on white wings - but he dismisses the thought easily when Aerith smiles and loops her arms around his waist from behind; she’ll be his wings.
017.___ Food
Yuffie is sitting on his feet, Aerith is perched on the side of the bed - Aerith tells him to “open up” and adjusts the damp cloth on his head, Yuffie bounces slightly, and when Leon wonders aloud why he has to be subjected to this, Aerith reminds him that it does the body good when sick.
018.___ Foot
He sees her walking down the hall in those heels, those strappy little yellow-and-pink stilettos with lace ties, and suddenly he forgives those ridiculous foot fetishists on some level.
019.___ Grave
When standing in front of the tombstone, the sun disgustingly bright for a day so sombre, Leon looked at Cloud and couldn’t help but feel angry that he didn’t do more to save her - and he isn’t sure who “he” is.
020.___ Green
His eyes were unremarkable, boring grey, which contrasted so badly with her stunning gaze of viridian.
021.___ Head
She’s on her knees in front of him, naked except for her open dress, which hangs from her shoulders like a sort of cape, her hands on his bare thighs, and when he awkwardly asks her are you sure, she smiles and nods.
022.___ Hollow
She looks at him sometimes like she’s frustrated with him, because, really, loving someone who can’t express himself is really like loving a hollow piece of wood.
023.___ Honour
Cid catches Leon sneaking from Aerith’s room, he promises to not tell Cloud, but Cid feels a huge disappointment in the younger man’s dishonesty.
024.___ Hope
Leon says her name, Aerith says his, but they aren’t the people the other is thinking of - instead, it’s a false hope that someday maybe they’ll both have their lovers back.
025.___ Light
His new glasses reflect the light sometimes, hiding his eyes, and Aerith says it makes him look like some sort of mystery man; he hates them with a passion.
026.___ Lost
She looks for the ribbon with a furious impatience, and Leon remains as unfriendly as cold steel when she runs to him crying over it.
027.___ Metal
She was always more of the delicate princess type, in his eyes, than the powerful warrior, but he always knew she was ready to take up her rod when he needed her there most.
028.___ New
The old bomber jacket’s gash would never be fixed, she realized, and hacked off the majority of the sleeves to rid the coat of its battle wounds, and while Leon took a long time to start liking it, she thought it looked just like new.
029.___ Old
We could run off together, he suggests at random, and when she doesn’t say anything, he feels like he has been fighting the same battle for more years than he can count.
030.___ Peace
A tease of peace feels like salt in his wounds when the Heartless come back, but he doesn’t mind fighting, if it’s to protect her.
031.___ Poison
As Cid blew nicotine-laced fumes into the air, Aerith glanced at Cloud and Leon from across the bar, and when the hazy blue-grey smoke floated to the ceiling, she realized there was more than one poison in the room.
032.___ Pretty
He never was sure how to tell her, but he figured she understood anyway - if only because of the way that, when he didn’t have the courage to admit it, he couldn’t take his eyes off her.
033.___ Rain
Surprisingly, she is the one to call to him about being stupid, when he spends the whole night brooding, the overhang over his head barely enough to keep a mouse dry, let alone someone of his size.
034.___ Regret
The best man feels like he’s made a mistake when Cloud turns to him on the wedding day, and says, “God, I’m so glad she’s my girl in the end.”
035.____ Roses
They don’t smell nice at all, he thinks, like dirt and mud - but he know she’ll smile when she gets them, because carolina roses mean more than friendship to her.
036.___ Secret
I love you, but I love Cloud too, and I can’t keep it bottled up anymore! she screams, and he realizes that even someone as open as her has things to tell.
037.___ Snakes
It twists around her arm in serpentine coils, the silver bracelet, and jangles as she walks, and he always knows exactly when she’s coming or going.
038.___ Snow
“You’re going to freeze and you know it,” he warns them, but Aerith merely smiles as she is dragged out into the night by an energetic Yuffie, both clad for warm summer instead of freezing winter; Aerith asks if he’ll warm her up later, Leon doesn’t do anything but look down and nod, and Yuffie makes a face.
039.___ Solid
Aerith bounces off of him like a ball would ricochet off of a wall, and catches herself easily, and he almost chuckles at how she never seems to care where the wind’s taking her, as long as she’s going somewhere in the end.
040.____ Spring
It could be summer, fall or winter, but he sees her and the flowers in her hair, and all he thinks of is pure, unadulterated spring.
041.___ Stable
After over a decade living the Traverse Town, what left the Bastion as four refugees returns as a young woman, two lovers and a pilot, and somehow, it isn’t just the change of scenery that disrupts everything.
042.___ Strange
His eyebrow raises, she looks down and says, “It’ll take getting used to,” and he decides that she looked better before she had a date with the scissors.
043.___ Summer
Her eyes wander down his bare chest, a wry smile crosses her lips, and Leon realizes he’s about to become the unlucky victim of Aerith’s campaign to bury people in the sand.
044.___ Taboo
Yuffie looks at him some days like she wants to drive kunai into him for what he’s doing, for how she’s being asked to take sides, and how she’s been swept into the undertow of a love triangle she isn’t even involved in.
045.____ Ugly
It jaggedly runs down the middle of face, and while Yuffie always tells him it was hideous and ruined his not-good-to-begin-with looks, she never does, no matter how silly it looks.
046.___ War
He looks back on his former self, and realizes how many former-people he’s killed to save his own, and Aerith does nothing but say, it was for the best.
047.___ Water
Feeling stupid and emasculated when she drags him into her oceans of water and mountains of strawberry-scented white bubble bath isn’t a favourite of his, but he tolerates it because he likes how the smell clings to her for hours after.
048.___ Welcome
Leon looks dubiously down at the mat in front of the door, and ask what the point is - they don’t know anyone in Traverse Town - and she shakes her head and says that they need to be welcome, too.
049.___ Winter
He always assumed she was the innocent one of the two of them, but as they stared out the window she whispered, “we could be really warm and cozy and close in here, couldn’t we?” he realized he was wrong in every way possible.
050.___ Wood
He says something absolutely horrible, and she smiles, raps on the oak door-frame, and brushes it off, but has problems getting the mental images out of her head for days.
Pairing: Squall "Leon" Leonhart x Aerith Gainsborough
Theme set: Delta
Rating: T
001.___ Air
“Like the sky,” she says, when they first meet, when he says her name wrong.
002.___ Apples
It’s silly, she thinks, but if she ever fell into an unending sleep and was cursed until her true love kissed her, she would choose him before any other.
003.___ Beginning
It took five years of friendship and three years of closely depending on each other before the beginning of their relationship could start.
004.___ Bugs
He almost smiles when she climbs onto a chair to avoid the tiny thing, and has to call Yuffie - who chooses to show off and pin it to the floor with a shuriken - to exterminate it.
005.___ Coffee
It’s four a.m. and she’s still lashed up on a caffeine buzz, and despite the fact that he is exhausted, he indulges her in one last game of cards.
006.___ Dark
This is so silly, he wants to say, as she ties the blindfold around his eyes - but it all seems much more worth it when he trusts her and her hands find his and lead him through the dark.
007.___ Despair
It’s always darkest before it goes pitch black - Leon has had this etched into his mind for fourteen years, and he still can’t bring up the courage to cling to her hands while waiting for it to happen.
008.___ Doors
Six-year-old Yuffie slammed the bedroom door harder than they had ever heard before, and the two settled down on the outside - together - for a long two hours trying to coax her into loving them again.
009.___ Drink
If he had told her once, he had told her a million times - he didn’t like milk in his soda, or other such strange combinations - but that never stopped him from cringing and drinking it anyway.
010.___ Duty
Why do you always insist on taking care of me, she demands, when you’re the one that needs someone to help them?
011.___ Earth
She’s lying in the garden, among the plants and the earth and the flowers, and despite the fact that her dress and hair will be plastered in dirt, she doesn’t seem to mind, because from here, she doesn’t have to worry about the stress of boys.
012.___ End
Cid gets frustrated easily, and can’t stand it when people wait around for things to happen, so when he gets tired of watching Aerith throw Leon looks from across the table, he marches over to her side of the table, picks her up, and dumps her in Leon’s lap, and everyone knows it’s the end of a long hesitation.
013.___ Fail
Yuffie returns home alone one day, blood smeared across her face and the odd cut here or there oozing trickles of thick crimson, only to have Aerith ask what happened, only to have to tell her, through tears, that Leon’s gone.
014.___ Fire
When he says he’ll be her knight, he says it with burning eyes and a burning face, and she knows it’ll always be true.
015.___ Flexible
Her knees are almost touching her shoulders, and as he slides into her, he’s suddenly very pleased with how flexible she is.
016.___ Flying
Sometimes Leon wonders if he only loves her because she reminds him of a girl who flew on white wings - but he dismisses the thought easily when Aerith smiles and loops her arms around his waist from behind; she’ll be his wings.
017.___ Food
Yuffie is sitting on his feet, Aerith is perched on the side of the bed - Aerith tells him to “open up” and adjusts the damp cloth on his head, Yuffie bounces slightly, and when Leon wonders aloud why he has to be subjected to this, Aerith reminds him that it does the body good when sick.
018.___ Foot
He sees her walking down the hall in those heels, those strappy little yellow-and-pink stilettos with lace ties, and suddenly he forgives those ridiculous foot fetishists on some level.
019.___ Grave
When standing in front of the tombstone, the sun disgustingly bright for a day so sombre, Leon looked at Cloud and couldn’t help but feel angry that he didn’t do more to save her - and he isn’t sure who “he” is.
020.___ Green
His eyes were unremarkable, boring grey, which contrasted so badly with her stunning gaze of viridian.
021.___ Head
She’s on her knees in front of him, naked except for her open dress, which hangs from her shoulders like a sort of cape, her hands on his bare thighs, and when he awkwardly asks her are you sure, she smiles and nods.
022.___ Hollow
She looks at him sometimes like she’s frustrated with him, because, really, loving someone who can’t express himself is really like loving a hollow piece of wood.
023.___ Honour
Cid catches Leon sneaking from Aerith’s room, he promises to not tell Cloud, but Cid feels a huge disappointment in the younger man’s dishonesty.
024.___ Hope
Leon says her name, Aerith says his, but they aren’t the people the other is thinking of - instead, it’s a false hope that someday maybe they’ll both have their lovers back.
025.___ Light
His new glasses reflect the light sometimes, hiding his eyes, and Aerith says it makes him look like some sort of mystery man; he hates them with a passion.
026.___ Lost
She looks for the ribbon with a furious impatience, and Leon remains as unfriendly as cold steel when she runs to him crying over it.
027.___ Metal
She was always more of the delicate princess type, in his eyes, than the powerful warrior, but he always knew she was ready to take up her rod when he needed her there most.
028.___ New
The old bomber jacket’s gash would never be fixed, she realized, and hacked off the majority of the sleeves to rid the coat of its battle wounds, and while Leon took a long time to start liking it, she thought it looked just like new.
029.___ Old
We could run off together, he suggests at random, and when she doesn’t say anything, he feels like he has been fighting the same battle for more years than he can count.
030.___ Peace
A tease of peace feels like salt in his wounds when the Heartless come back, but he doesn’t mind fighting, if it’s to protect her.
031.___ Poison
As Cid blew nicotine-laced fumes into the air, Aerith glanced at Cloud and Leon from across the bar, and when the hazy blue-grey smoke floated to the ceiling, she realized there was more than one poison in the room.
032.___ Pretty
He never was sure how to tell her, but he figured she understood anyway - if only because of the way that, when he didn’t have the courage to admit it, he couldn’t take his eyes off her.
033.___ Rain
Surprisingly, she is the one to call to him about being stupid, when he spends the whole night brooding, the overhang over his head barely enough to keep a mouse dry, let alone someone of his size.
034.___ Regret
The best man feels like he’s made a mistake when Cloud turns to him on the wedding day, and says, “God, I’m so glad she’s my girl in the end.”
035.____ Roses
They don’t smell nice at all, he thinks, like dirt and mud - but he know she’ll smile when she gets them, because carolina roses mean more than friendship to her.
036.___ Secret
I love you, but I love Cloud too, and I can’t keep it bottled up anymore! she screams, and he realizes that even someone as open as her has things to tell.
037.___ Snakes
It twists around her arm in serpentine coils, the silver bracelet, and jangles as she walks, and he always knows exactly when she’s coming or going.
038.___ Snow
“You’re going to freeze and you know it,” he warns them, but Aerith merely smiles as she is dragged out into the night by an energetic Yuffie, both clad for warm summer instead of freezing winter; Aerith asks if he’ll warm her up later, Leon doesn’t do anything but look down and nod, and Yuffie makes a face.
039.___ Solid
Aerith bounces off of him like a ball would ricochet off of a wall, and catches herself easily, and he almost chuckles at how she never seems to care where the wind’s taking her, as long as she’s going somewhere in the end.
040.____ Spring
It could be summer, fall or winter, but he sees her and the flowers in her hair, and all he thinks of is pure, unadulterated spring.
041.___ Stable
After over a decade living the Traverse Town, what left the Bastion as four refugees returns as a young woman, two lovers and a pilot, and somehow, it isn’t just the change of scenery that disrupts everything.
042.___ Strange
His eyebrow raises, she looks down and says, “It’ll take getting used to,” and he decides that she looked better before she had a date with the scissors.
043.___ Summer
Her eyes wander down his bare chest, a wry smile crosses her lips, and Leon realizes he’s about to become the unlucky victim of Aerith’s campaign to bury people in the sand.
044.___ Taboo
Yuffie looks at him some days like she wants to drive kunai into him for what he’s doing, for how she’s being asked to take sides, and how she’s been swept into the undertow of a love triangle she isn’t even involved in.
045.____ Ugly
It jaggedly runs down the middle of face, and while Yuffie always tells him it was hideous and ruined his not-good-to-begin-with looks, she never does, no matter how silly it looks.
046.___ War
He looks back on his former self, and realizes how many former-people he’s killed to save his own, and Aerith does nothing but say, it was for the best.
047.___ Water
Feeling stupid and emasculated when she drags him into her oceans of water and mountains of strawberry-scented white bubble bath isn’t a favourite of his, but he tolerates it because he likes how the smell clings to her for hours after.
048.___ Welcome
Leon looks dubiously down at the mat in front of the door, and ask what the point is - they don’t know anyone in Traverse Town - and she shakes her head and says that they need to be welcome, too.
049.___ Winter
He always assumed she was the innocent one of the two of them, but as they stared out the window she whispered, “we could be really warm and cozy and close in here, couldn’t we?” he realized he was wrong in every way possible.
050.___ Wood
He says something absolutely horrible, and she smiles, raps on the oak door-frame, and brushes it off, but has problems getting the mental images out of her head for days.