Fic: Watching the Show (S&S Prompt fic)
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thisbluespiritThere has been a shocking absence of Sapphire in these prompt ficlets so far, but no longer! \o/
Title: Watching the Show
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lost_spook
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 273
Characters/Pairings: Sapphire. (Sapphire/Steel)
Warnings None.
Summary: Sapphire knows how to run away without leaving. (Prompt 14. sapphire - High school AU & Ran away to join the circus. Well, if high school au can count as ‘learning’. I’m being more cavalier with AU prompts, because I want Elements, not humans.)
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Humans talk of running away to join the circus. It can be a literal thing, but more often it’s a phrase, a metaphor or a joke: an unlikely means of escape, of going on the run, or doing something wilder and more colourful than usual. To seek out excitement and spectacle, maybe even danger.
Sapphire doesn’t run away in the literal sense, or at least not for long enough to count. She knows what that would mean and she will not turn away from the purpose for which she was formed. But in the more metaphorical sense, Sapphire runs away to the circus many times in many ways, although perhaps it would be truer to say that she goes there to watch the performance than to join.
She touches, tastes, explores with every sense available the human world around her. She’s curious; it’s an important part of her essence and her function. She’s fascinated by her colleagues, too, their unique natures and she takes pleasure in being inside their thoughts, their minds. And then there’s Silver, though it’s been so long now that she’s unsure if that was always what they had in common or if he was the one who first showed her how to run away within the boundaries, to enjoy the show. Now there’s Steel. She knows he fears his strength sometimes, but she wants that danger, she likes the way it feels: danger and safety combined in a way that’s new for her.
In some ways, Sapphire runs away to the circus every day, but she’ll never go too far, she’ll always come back – especially now, especially for him.
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Title: Watching the Show
Author:
lost_spookRating: All ages
Word Count: 273
Characters/Pairings: Sapphire. (Sapphire/Steel)
Warnings None.
Summary: Sapphire knows how to run away without leaving. (Prompt 14. sapphire - High school AU & Ran away to join the circus. Well, if high school au can count as ‘learning’. I’m being more cavalier with AU prompts, because I want Elements, not humans.)
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Humans talk of running away to join the circus. It can be a literal thing, but more often it’s a phrase, a metaphor or a joke: an unlikely means of escape, of going on the run, or doing something wilder and more colourful than usual. To seek out excitement and spectacle, maybe even danger.
Sapphire doesn’t run away in the literal sense, or at least not for long enough to count. She knows what that would mean and she will not turn away from the purpose for which she was formed. But in the more metaphorical sense, Sapphire runs away to the circus many times in many ways, although perhaps it would be truer to say that she goes there to watch the performance than to join.
She touches, tastes, explores with every sense available the human world around her. She’s curious; it’s an important part of her essence and her function. She’s fascinated by her colleagues, too, their unique natures and she takes pleasure in being inside their thoughts, their minds. And then there’s Silver, though it’s been so long now that she’s unsure if that was always what they had in common or if he was the one who first showed her how to run away within the boundaries, to enjoy the show. Now there’s Steel. She knows he fears his strength sometimes, but she wants that danger, she likes the way it feels: danger and safety combined in a way that’s new for her.
In some ways, Sapphire runs away to the circus every day, but she’ll never go too far, she’ll always come back – especially now, especially for him.
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Date: 2012-09-30 11:06 am (UTC):-)
You should write this.
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Date: 2012-09-30 12:16 pm (UTC)Though it's turned out to be completely different than I'd intended. It needs a bit of polishing and proof-reading and then I'll post it.
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Date: 2012-09-30 04:02 pm (UTC)And, heh, isn't that always the way with stories?
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