"It's like in the great stories... The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why."
aldiara on May 15th, 2011 07:52 pm (UTC) A Difference of Temper
Tom's nice. He's nice, laid-back and generous, and it's all too easy to forget that when he blows up, he blows up hard, and when his claws come out, there's blood.
Marc's anger is cool; he gets quieter and chillier as his fury grows. When they fight – really fight – Tom's fire rages into empty space while Marc's iciness goes ignored, and they both come away wondering why they ever thought this could work.
But in the end, so far, they've managed to temper each other, and someone either cools down or warms enough to say, Don't go.
alsha on May 16th, 2011 05:42 am (UTC) Re: A Difference of Temper
*shiver!burn* This is...well, my favourite so far. It's elemental and personal and just choc full of intensity.... even before the "Don't go" which just kills me. 100 words my ass! Somehow you're cheating and fitting in at least three times that amount, right? Because otherwise I have no idea how you pulled that off.