dropsofviolet (dropsofviolet) wrote in no_true_pair, @ 2009-01-25 11:24:00 |
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Entry tags: | ! 2009 eight characters challenge, author: dropsofviolet, fandom: cardcaptor sakura, pairing: eriol/meiling |
Strangers Passing (CCS: Eriol/Meiling)
Title: Strangers Passing
Author/Artist: dropsofviolet
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Pairing/characters: Eriol/Meiling; Syaoran/Sakura implied
Rating: PG for mentions of sex
Warnings: mentions of sex
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Meiling/Eriol: don't cry now babydoll / nothing too good ever lasted long
Excerpt: "Li Meiling," she explains, her handshake firm, and he offers to buy her coffee and a new pair of shoes.
She doesn't meet him at the wedding, or the baby shower, or the christening. She bumps into him on the street by utter chance one day, on an unusually bright May morning.
"Pardon me," he says. He realizes that she is pretty and continues, "My name is Hiiragizawa Eriol and I hope you're okay."
She lets him help her up onto wobbly feet and then reaches down to retrieve her shoe heel.
"Nothing a little glue won't fix," she says, trying to be cheerful, and then she processes the name.
"Eriol? Kinomoto's Eriol?" She is gaping at him and wobbling a little more and he feels conspicous in the middle of the square.
He tugs at his shirt collar and says, "Miss?"
"Li Meiling," she explains, her handshake firm, and he offers to buy her coffee and a new pair of shoes.
She declines the shoes.
*
They date and it's sort of weird, given their pasts, but they never really met each other in the whole mess.
"I did help, though," she said, her eyes wide and childishly defiant.
"I'm sure you did," he said, reaching across the table to take her hands in his.
Because he isn't being condescending, she kisses him.
*
They only sleep together once, the night before Meiling has to fly home. She wakes up with only a couple hours of sticky sleep, extracts herself from his embrace, kisses him very gently on the forehead.
She doesn't leave her phone number, even though this has been wonderful and he's a gentleman and they could probably learn to love each other.
She has some more seeking to do, first.