Xiaolin Showdown - Clay Bailey and Kimiko Tohomiko
Fandom: Xiaolin Showdown
Pairing: Clay Bailey and Kimiko Tohomiko
Theme Set: Delta
Rating: PG
Warning: Some slight spoilers up to mid season two
#01 - Air
Raimundo is graceful, quick witted and clever and Clay despairs ever standing a chance against him.
#02 - Apples
Kimiko nearly burns the kitchen down and Clay can taste the flour in the final product but the important thing is she phoned long distance to get his mother’s apple crisp recipe.
#03 - Beginning
He looks like a hick, she thinks; she looks like a snob, he thinks.
#04 - Bugs
You know you love a guy when you’re willing to spend an hour combing nits out of his hair.
#05 - Coffee
Before Kimiko has had her morning coffee she’s grumpier than a rooster in a pig pen and Clay is more nervous than a long tailed cat in a rocking chair factory.
#06 - Dark
Clay has had this dream before - he’s lying in bed when Kimiko comes in with only a candle to chase away the dark - only, this time, she is still there come morning.
#07 - Despair
Kimiko is quite familiar with betrayal - Jack, Raimundo, Vlad, Guan - but only when it is Clay doing the betraying does she feel despair for the first time.
#08 - Doors
Clay kisses her and Kimiko feels like the door to her cage has been finally opened.
#09 - Drink
We only have one cup, Kimiko reminds herself, as she takes the cup, raises it to her lips, takes a sip and hands it back to Clay, this doesn’t mean anything.
#10 - Duty
They had both been so busy saving the world, they hadn’t seen each other in years; For Xiaolin Warriors, duty comes before love.
#11 - Earth
He was stable, solid, reliable and dependable most of the time, but there were times that make Kimiko feel as if she was in the middle of an earthquake; when the earth moved, you defiantly felt it.
#12 - End
Darkness spread over the world, radiating out from the former ghost witch and Kimiko stumbled back into Clay; so this was how the world would end.
#13 - Fall
Later tonight Kimiko will scowl at him, seething in her own anger and frustration over losing another Shen-Gong-Wu, but Clay knows that with both Kimiko and the Shen-Gong-Wu flying through the sky, he caught the more precious of the two.
#14 - Fire
Clay must step careful around her - treat her gently at times and firmly at others - because, thought she can be warm and comforting, one mistake could mean getting a bad burn.
#15 - Flexible
Omi and Raimundo wait in the courtyard for the other half of their team to appear; neither one knows that Kimiko prefers to do her morning stretches in private nor that Clay enjoys spying on her through a crack in the wall.
#16 - Flying
As a little girl, Kimiko used to dream of flying but when she finally got a chance, it wasn’t as exciting as she had imagined; as a little girl, she used to imagine falling in love and when it finally happened, it was better than she had ever dreamed.
#17 - Food
“Pass the salt,” Kimiko says; Omi builds a vegetable tower out of celery and lima beans, Raimundo practically inhales his dinner and Clay passes the salt.
#18 - Foot
They stand heel to heel; facing outward, they guard each others backs.
#19 - Grave
He’d dig a grave for her virtual pet, if she asked.
#20 - Green
Clay is pretty green at this here relationship stuff and sometimes he says things better left unsaid.
#21 - Head
“Is all your head empty or just the part that thinks,” Kimiko accuses.
#22 - Hollow
Clay replies, “Sometimes I reckon that you haven’t a heart in that there hollow chest of yours.”
#23 - Honor
Kimiko yelled at Clay every time he tried to be gentlemanlike; she had her honor.
#24 - Hope
“Maybe today there will be a letter from Kimiko.”
#25 - Light
The sweat drips down Kimiko’s face as she strains to use her tiny body to pull a man twice her size; “This would be easier,” Kimiko tells the unconscious Clay, “if you were lighter.”
#26 - Lost
Kimiko sits on the monastery steps and looks in the direction of Texas and Clay; should have kissed him before I lost the chance, she thinks.
#27 - Metal
“I think you should have this,” Clay says as he hands Kimiko the Star Hanabi, “it looks best on you.”
#28 - New
Kimiko had kissed before but kissing Clay was different, though she didn’t know why; whatever the reason - his height, his callus hands, his rough cheek, his cowboy hat - this was new.
#29 - Old
“You’ve lived a couple thousand years,” Clay says, sitting down on a stump next to Dojo, “You must know something about girls”, to which the 1500 year old dragon replies, “Not a thing.”
#30 - Peace
“Kimiko, perhaps we should end this session early today,” Master Fung suggested gently to the young woman, attempting and failing to find her inner peace, “your mind seems to be elsewhere today.”
#31 - Poison
The Mindreader Conch: finder of the secrets, whisperer of poison and ender of relationships before they have began.
#32 - Pretty
Clay was not someone who would ever been called pretty - rugged perhaps, handsome maybe, masculine defiantly, but never pretty; Kimiko calls him that just to piss him off.
#33 - Rain
Clay stumbles through the mud, the rain pouring down torrents around him; “You stupid girl,” he says to Kimiko, limp and unconscious in his arms, “you didn’t need to save me.”
#34 - Regret
“I’m sorry,” Kimiko says to Clay, referring to the broken Mosaic Scale; Clay accepts the apology with a kiss.
#35 - Roses
Kimiko finds a single red rose on her bed; she hasn’t a clue who gave it to her but she knows who she wished had.
#36 - Secret
Clay’s feelings for Kimiko would be a secret except he blushes and stammers whenever he’s in the same room as her.
#37 - Snakes
“And if I ever catch you spying on me again, Clay Bailey, I’ll show you just what I do with snakes,” and she slapped him, so hard that the crack reverberated throughout the temple, but that night, as she lay in bed, she smiled.
#38 - Snow
Kimiko falls into the snow next to Clay and says, as she presses down on the bleeding wound, “You stupid oaf, you didn’t need to save me.”
#39 - Solid
Clay is like a turtle, slow and steady; Kimiko has already decided he’ll be the one to win the race.
#40 - Spring
Kimiko springs forward and kicks the Jack-bot aside, saving Clay from a nasty goose egg; that will teach him, Kimiko thinks, to look after his own back before he starts worrying about mine.
#41 - Stable
Kimiko is afraid of very few things - she has flown high above the ground, fought monsters a 100 times her strength, battled her own nightmares and scrubbed every single tile of the monastery bathroom - but the idea of getting onto the back of that four legged giant and riding it just made her weak in the knees; “C’mon Kimiko,” Clay beckons forward, with gentle impatience, “You’ve got nothing to be scared of.”
#42 - Strange
“Kimiko and Clay have been acting strange,” Omi says to Raimundo as they pass the soccer ball, “Kimiko has not yet yelled at me for doing things and Clay is humming.”
#43 - Summer
Omi is amused at the sea creatures crawling in the sand and Raimundo has his eyes on all the lovely ladies in bikini’s but Clay only has eyes for the girl walking beside him.
#44 - Taboo
Xiaolin apprentices are suppose to be chaste - they have no time to be distracted from their training by fraternization - but Kimiko and Clay can not help but break the rules.
#45 - Ugly
“My hair is so ugly,” Kimiko moans first thing in the morning and Clay just shakes his head; Clay has seen ugly and it looks nothing like Kimiko’s hair.
#46 - War
“You don’t want to go in there,” Raimundo warned Omi, “it’s like World War III.”
#47 - Water
Kimiko and Clay have taken to avoiding Omi in the hallway; Omi tries to be wise in the ways of love, offering unwanted advice that he believes he has a duty to provide.
#48 - Welcome
The Dragon of Fire fits her part to a tee - brave, emotional, loyal, - and she will make the temple proud; however, it is on nights when Master Fung catches Clay and Kimiko out in the courtyard, he wonders if welcoming a girl into the temple was a wise thing to do.
#49 - Winter
It’s one of the things they have in common; they both hate winter.
#50 - Wood
Clay knocks on the wooden door frame for luck; it must work ‘cause Kimiko hasn’t said no yet.