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scribblemynameA meme I did once a long time ago from the incomparable xenokattz:
Give me
a) a fandom/original world
b) a character/pairing
Then add any (or all) of the following
1) an image
2) a quote (but not in the same fandom)
3) Your battle cry
4) a recipe
First 10 prompts will get a strict drabble commentfic; that is, a 100 words very brief fic. No promises after 10 although I'll do my bestest.
Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.
Owning Beauty
Date: 2013-05-05 04:14 pm (UTC)"Are you sure you know how to play this?" Pieter's voice drifted into her bedroom from out front where she had left him. "I thought you were a piano teacher."
Ashen studied her expression in the glass, then sighed and affixed her pearl earrings. In for a bar, in for the song. She stepped out into her apartment living room to see Pieter ever so carefully setting the violin back down on her glass table.
"Sometimes you surpri—" He looked up at that moment and faltered to silence. Pieter had never seen her beautiful.
"Is my playing surprising?" Ashen asked plainly. She had loved music from her childhood, from before she had any opportunity of making it a vocation. She had loved the violin when first Red Wolf showed her how to play it and loved the piano when he bought one for her music book and taught her to turn lines and bars into notes. Red Wolf was leader and brother to her in one and he had loved it when she played.
Pieter shook his head, still seeming dazed. "No. Just... your versatility, I suppose."
He did not sound very convincing, but Ashen let it go. She had never had a man lose his silver tongue around her either and the sensation was not entirely unpleasant. In fact, the edges of a smile began to glimmer about her mouth as she picked up her wrap and let him help her into it. His hands lingered as he did before he finally handed her the violin to put in its case for carrying.
"I look forward to meeting your family," he said cautiously, rightly presuming he was on trial this evening.
She turned to him and realized suddenly she was still smiling and that her smile was not practice. It was not because a smile was called for but because it had simply happened while she wasn't paying attention. "I'll play a song for you tonight," she said, and then she turned away and walked outside, waiting a moment for him to compose himself enough to follow.
Re: Owning Beauty
Date: 2013-05-05 04:38 pm (UTC)That would be interesting.
It's always amusing to see the guy falter with words when he catches sight of the girl, and Ashen makes it just that bit more special because she's not really expecting it like some might, and she's flattered but not in the same was as others might be.
Plus she smiled without having to think about it.
Re: Owning Beauty
Date: 2013-05-05 04:50 pm (UTC)I do love the whole differentness this was for her. It's fun watching her learn how normalcy works, especially something like that. It was the oddest realization as I was writing, to realize she'd never had the feeling even once of being beautiful.
Re: Owning Beauty
Date: 2013-05-05 05:23 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's strange how that can come about, but I can see it for her. There was no one to tell her that she was, and the life she led didn't lend itself to that, either, plus she wouldn't really think of herself that way because of what she did. Now she has the opportunity to experience those things she could not have before.
It gives her story a bit of... optimism that is nice to see knowing the darkness they all went through.