Untitled (CCS, Eriol/Sakura, #6)
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Author/Artist: khaas
Pairing: Hiirigizawa Eriol/Kinomoto Sakura
Fandom: Card Captor Sakura (manga)
Theme: #6, The space between dream and reality
Disclaimer: CCS does NOT belong to me. If it did, the ending would've been EXTREMELY different.
She was silent as they walked to the cafe and barely made a sound even after the two sat down. He watched her with scrutinizing eyes, attempting to peel away the internal guards she put up as a temporary way of telling him that she wanted some quiet (temporary because she would never completely hide anything from him anymore). Still, he wanted to quickly find out what was bothering her. Besides, she had barely acknowledged him all day. She looked at him only when he answered the door to pick her up and once more when her eyes darted from the menu to his face (he noticed that because she sat across from him).
And it wasn't as if she was frowning. She did not outright smile, but a tiny tilt-up of the edge of her lips kept playing onto her face once in while. Altogether, something was interfering with the date and he was not all too happy about that. When their drinks arrived, she took a long, slow sip as she stared at the foam on the top of her ice cream float.
Finally, the soft sound of her voice danced into the air.
"Recently, when I remember my first dream about you, I'm beginning to think that there was something else I missed."
He paused in the middle of his soda.
(Oh.)
She propped her head onto a hand while the other reached over to grab one of his. "In the very first dream," she whispered, gaze lowered towards the table, "your back is facing me. Suddenly, you begin to turn, and I can see a part of your face. That is when, for a short second, from the way your body moves, you look at me with a plead. Your mouth opens, and I can almost hear something, when my alarm goes off." Finally, her emerald eyes shot up to stare into his own violet-blue ones, and her lips moved to form a smile, one that said she held something precious and endearing close to her. The guard had dropped.
(Oh, wait, this can be embarrassing if he doesn't pull it off right.)
Eriol sighed. "Thank goodness that was it. For you to put me through such treatment, I was afraid that something worse occurred."
"Of course, this means that you will have to explain that to me." There was no way that the topic could have been more bluntly presented in front of him. Blunt. Frank. Straight to the point. Candid. He wanted the dense, what-did-I-miss-this-time Sakura back. Every once in a while she would remember flashes of their past and demand an answer to the unanswered question that would pop up into her mind from the trips down memory lane. And it was always something tiny and tedious and slightly blush-forming so as grateful as he is for this relationship, the questions do becomes too much.
He coughed, looked up at the ceiling, scratched his head with his free hand, and then finally turned his gaze back towards her. She was still smiling. No wonder he adored her. (Right? Of course.) "So maaaaayyyybbbeeee I was slightly lying when I said I grew an interest in you after we entered high school. I just wanted to greet you in that dream. And I probably did in your later ones as well. You do have a strange tendency to see too much."
She raised an eyebrow (just one). "Maybe? Your mouth never looked like it was going to say anything in the later dreams, but that first one, that first one did."
"I gave my greetings the next day when I joined your class."
She shook her head. Obviously, that wasn't enough. "Tell me. What did you want to say to me?"
Eriol groaned and covered his face with his hands. Now that he looked back upon that moment, it would've been extremely cheesy if he HAD gotten that word out. She grabbed his wrists and pulled his shielding away. That's when he saw that beautiful expression upon her face. The one where she's so happy that her eyes glistened and her smile showed teeth and she was softly holding his hands in her own. No wonder. No wonder at all that they've been dating for so many years now.
"Cherished."
Author/Artist: khaas
Pairing: Hiirigizawa Eriol/Kinomoto Sakura
Fandom: Card Captor Sakura (manga)
Theme: #6, The space between dream and reality
Disclaimer: CCS does NOT belong to me. If it did, the ending would've been EXTREMELY different.
She was silent as they walked to the cafe and barely made a sound even after the two sat down. He watched her with scrutinizing eyes, attempting to peel away the internal guards she put up as a temporary way of telling him that she wanted some quiet (temporary because she would never completely hide anything from him anymore). Still, he wanted to quickly find out what was bothering her. Besides, she had barely acknowledged him all day. She looked at him only when he answered the door to pick her up and once more when her eyes darted from the menu to his face (he noticed that because she sat across from him).
And it wasn't as if she was frowning. She did not outright smile, but a tiny tilt-up of the edge of her lips kept playing onto her face once in while. Altogether, something was interfering with the date and he was not all too happy about that. When their drinks arrived, she took a long, slow sip as she stared at the foam on the top of her ice cream float.
Finally, the soft sound of her voice danced into the air.
"Recently, when I remember my first dream about you, I'm beginning to think that there was something else I missed."
He paused in the middle of his soda.
(Oh.)
She propped her head onto a hand while the other reached over to grab one of his. "In the very first dream," she whispered, gaze lowered towards the table, "your back is facing me. Suddenly, you begin to turn, and I can see a part of your face. That is when, for a short second, from the way your body moves, you look at me with a plead. Your mouth opens, and I can almost hear something, when my alarm goes off." Finally, her emerald eyes shot up to stare into his own violet-blue ones, and her lips moved to form a smile, one that said she held something precious and endearing close to her. The guard had dropped.
(Oh, wait, this can be embarrassing if he doesn't pull it off right.)
Eriol sighed. "Thank goodness that was it. For you to put me through such treatment, I was afraid that something worse occurred."
"Of course, this means that you will have to explain that to me." There was no way that the topic could have been more bluntly presented in front of him. Blunt. Frank. Straight to the point. Candid. He wanted the dense, what-did-I-miss-this-time Sakura back. Every once in a while she would remember flashes of their past and demand an answer to the unanswered question that would pop up into her mind from the trips down memory lane. And it was always something tiny and tedious and slightly blush-forming so as grateful as he is for this relationship, the questions do becomes too much.
He coughed, looked up at the ceiling, scratched his head with his free hand, and then finally turned his gaze back towards her. She was still smiling. No wonder he adored her. (Right? Of course.) "So maaaaayyyybbbeeee I was slightly lying when I said I grew an interest in you after we entered high school. I just wanted to greet you in that dream. And I probably did in your later ones as well. You do have a strange tendency to see too much."
She raised an eyebrow (just one). "Maybe? Your mouth never looked like it was going to say anything in the later dreams, but that first one, that first one did."
"I gave my greetings the next day when I joined your class."
She shook her head. Obviously, that wasn't enough. "Tell me. What did you want to say to me?"
Eriol groaned and covered his face with his hands. Now that he looked back upon that moment, it would've been extremely cheesy if he HAD gotten that word out. She grabbed his wrists and pulled his shielding away. That's when he saw that beautiful expression upon her face. The one where she's so happy that her eyes glistened and her smile showed teeth and she was softly holding his hands in her own. No wonder. No wonder at all that they've been dating for so many years now.
"Cherished."