Laylah (laylah) wrote in no_true_pair, @ 2008-06-28 11:42:00 |
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Entry tags: | ! 2008 twelve characters challenge, author: laylah, fandom: baccano!, pairing: maiza/ronnie |
"Domino Effect," Baccano!
Title: Domino Effect
Author: Laylah
Fandom: Baccano!
Pairing: Ronnie/Maiza
Rating: worksafe, to Ronnie's chagrin
Prompt: Ronnie and Maiza - "I love you."
A/N: Totally inspired by episode 16; some minor spoilers.
Domino Effect
This is changing everything. Maiza, with his habitual stubborn blindness, seems oblivious, but that makes it no less true. Inside Alveare, the men are laughing, cheering, their noise drowning out the click-click of the falling dominos. Maiza's laughter is part of the chorus. Maiza's laughter, and his honest smile, not the pained self-denying one he's hidden behind for the last two centuries. It had begun to seem he'd never show this kind of...joy, perhaps. Delight. Humans have so many words for it.
When did humans become more than abstractly fascinating? How did a collection of extortionists and killers become such wholesome company? The being who's been calling himself Ronnie Suchiato lights another cigarette -- that, also, a question: why is this poison so comforting? -- and listens to the plans being made inside.
The wish he granted to the other human on the ship was an excuse, no more, or he's told himself as much for years. Demons are supposed to be bound by their word, but he'd argue that 'demon' is a name he doesn't care for and it's never fit him well. He followed Maiza, watched over Maiza, to satisfy his own curiosity. Even when the old man showed up to try to eat him, Ronnie didn't interfere -- and that worked out far more interestingly than he'd have expected, so much so that he's rarely gone back to think about the way it felt (such a strange word) when he expected Maiza to die.
And now he's standing on a street corner daydreaming about Maiza like a heartsick lover. Well, all right. It does keep life interesting.