shiegra (shiegra) wrote in no_true_pair, @ 2008-06-02 12:25:00 |
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Entry tags: | ! 2008 twelve characters challenge, author: shiegra, crossover: baccano!/d.gray-man, pairing: claire/rinali |
D.Grayman/Baccano!
Title: Mirrors
Author/Artist: shiegra
Fandom: Baccano/D.Grayman
Pairing/characters: Claire Stanfield, Rinali Li
Rating: G/PG
Prompt/challenge you're answering: * Claire Stanfield and Rinali: the memory cannot keep me warm / but it never leaves me cold
He's known other dark haired girls before with fierce silent faces and strength packed hard and close in their long, slim bodies.
Slim if not thin; dark pigtails, slightly hollow cheeks, shadowed eyes that were dark instead of the luminous honey warmth that he remembered. She stood to the side, her duty done and high boots quiescent around her legs, and watched with shadowed, unhappy eyes as a girl was pulled, sobbing, from her family's arms.
It's akin to other memories in a vague, distortedly echoing way--his dream come full circle perhaps, a time of waiting suspended? she has eyes like ashes and she will not smile--a different crying girl on a luxurious train, a different woman standing aside with shadowed unreadable eyes as mother and child are threatened.
But no. Not her, not quite yet. Something in the way she holds herself. Chane will come back to him, of course—he won’t give her up, and the world is his to wait for—but it won't be in that body, or through those eyes, even as they shift uneasily, maybe catching a hint of his presence.
Chane would have known, he thinks as he moves away.