He was pricklier than usual in this! He was so CONFLICTED. I mean, in-character conflicted! Part of him wanted who he was, and part of him wanted what Akabane offered, and part of him wanted his nice, quiet, non-violent life, and just...DILEMMA. No wait, more than two, uh...QUADLEMMA!
I wanted to get more into the power issues! But Akabane was so blase about being imprisoned, and Cid was so trying not to think about how dangerous Akabane was, and then the twist happened and uh...some of the mistrust kind of vanished. And there was supposed to be cathartic sex in here all about Cid letting go of his own inner guilt, but uh...nope. The two of them just couldn't come up with a way to start it. Akabane = too polite, and Cid = too skittish.
...now I want to write fanfic to my fanfic. Transporter!Cid just...al;djkf So full of awesome.