Catarina (catdevigri) wrote in no_true_pair, @ 2011-10-01 13:14:00 |
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Entry tags: | ! 2011 fall eight characters round, author: catdevigri, crossover: baccano!/suikoden iii, pairing: czeslaw/sarah |
Those Who Choose Solitude (Baccano!/Suikoden III, Czeslaw + Sarah)
Title: Those Who Choose Solitude
Author: catdevigri
Fandom: Crossover - Baccano! x Suikoden III
Pairing/characters: Czeslaw & Sarah
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Word count: 502
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Czeslaw & Sarah, tea for two
Author's comment: I had a little fun slipping some of the other characters off my lists into the background of this scenario.
Wherever Czeslaw settled down in the crowded cafe he was going to have to take a sit right beside someone. ...Therefore the decision was clear (as he strictly warned himself, "Taking your tea and leaving with it is not an option."): who to sit beside?
There was an open seat to each side a fearsome, scar-faced man looking out the window at the street (though the man who had ordered just after him, dressed in all white, was eying that area of the room rather pointedly). Odds were he was the silent sort who would keep to himself, but his company didn't appeal to Czeslaw (and whatever the man in white would add to the mix, he didn't imagine it could be good).
Another seat presented itself in the corner, but it was sandwiched between a pair of lovelorn schoolgirls, holding hands beneath the counter as they sipped their fancy drinks, frothy with whipped cream, and a studious-looking young man, who, despite being crouched over a stack of books, kept glancing forlornly out over the cafe, obviously wishing for someone to interrupt his studying with some idle chatter. ...It made for a definite no.
Czeslaw jostled his hot cup of tea from one hand to the other. He couldn't just idle about here forever. He was going to burn himself before his tea went cold at this rate (there had been burning experiments in the past - Hold your hand there just like that, Czeslaw. Like that. Perfect- don't move! Don't move! Keep still! - Hot, hot, hot, hot, his memory screamed from the other side of things. Better not to think of it).
The man in white had gone to hassle the scarred man just as he had guessed he would. It brought a wry smile to Czeslaw's lips. He could read most people easily enough after all these years. He would have to quiet that same urge toward over-analysis now and just take the first seat that presented itself to him. ...That would be the only one he hadn't crossed off his list thus far.
Before his cup of tea even touched the table, the almost ghostly-pale woman at his side spoke up in a soft voice, "Don't worry. I won't talk to you."
It was strange, but amusing. "But you're talking to me now," Czeslaw settled down beside her.
"Pardon me." Her face colored slightly. She looked sheepish. "Then it's up to you whether I will say anymore."
"It's funny," Czeslaw sipped his tea, "I wanted to be left alone. I didn't want anyone to talk to me, but I'm not sure I feel that way anymore. ...And you know it wouldn't be that way for just anyone- there's something about you."
"My name is Sarah," she offered her hand.
He shook it politely, "You can call me 'Benjamin.'" (He could say it- she wasn't immortal.)
"Pleased to meet you."
"Well, Sarah, let's share this silence together then."
She laughed a little at that statement. "After you," she said.