One Ficlet, One Drabble,
Title: On These Pages I Found You
Author: Alex Foster
Word Count: 400
Pairing: Brittany/Santana
Rating: PG
Summary: Santana doesn't believe in fairy tales but Brittany enjoys them so she plays along.
Author's Notes: Written for Author's Mill prompt Briar Rose. Set post Sexy. A copy of the Briar Rose fairy tale can be found here if anyone is interested. Thank you for reading.
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Santana found the book while cleaning her room of all the reminders of their friendship Brittany had left behind over the years. The book with its old cloth dust jacket she remembered immediately. Grimm’s Tales.
Contrary to popular belief, Brittany did read - when it was something she liked. And Brittany, at least when she was little, liked the stories in that book. When she gave it to Santana and asked her to read aloud she said it was because she was tired of hearing her own head voice.
Secretly Santana liked the stories too because they were like lyrics or poems that made sense. Brittany would curl against her, close her eyes, and wait patiently for each story to begin. That part had been nice too.
Flipping thin pages that smelled like an old librarian, Santana told her about Briar Rose’s sleeping curse, the hedge of thorns, and how the prince kissed Rose as the kingdom woke from its century long slumber.
She glossed over how those thorns around the castle were sharp and deadly and how many young men died in them thinking they could win the princess. The story ended happily so she figured Brittany would be pleased.
“That’s not right,” she said. “The prince got credit for something he didn’t do.”
“Yes, he did. He woke the princess.”
“The curse was for one hundred years,” Brittany insisted. “He just showed up on the right day and everyone thinks he made it right.”
Santana decided Disney was better because it wasn’t as complicated as Grimm. “Well, Britt, look at it this way: the princess and prince wouldn’t have ended up together if she hadn’t slept for so long. In a way they just had to wait until they were both in the same place at the same time.
“The thicket knew that and why it appeared as simple flowers to him and let him in. No one else could get through because they weren’t the right one.”
“Oh. Is that why the pigeons went to sleep, too?”
Santana kissed the top of Brittany’s head. “Yeah, that’s why.”
She hadn’t really believed any of that - it was just a stupid story for stupid kids - but it soothed Brittany and made her happy. Now, years later, she considered the book and all its memories for a long while before finally placing it back on the shelf. It was worth keeping.
End
Title: In The Hush I Heard You Sigh
Author: Alex Foster
Word Count: 100
Pairing: Brittany/Santana
Rating: PG
Summary: One day they will talk but until then they have the silence.
Author's Notes: Written for Slashthedrabble prompt Silence. Set before Sexy. Thank you for reading.
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Brittany enjoyed the silence and nestled against the warm body next to her.
She liked it when Santana drifted to sleep after their not cheating time and they could snuggle like they used to before things got confusing. She thought Santana liked it too because she caught her pretending to be asleep several times and acted like she didn’t realize.
Brittany wanted to talk to her and make sense of this relationship and why it made her stomach tingle - Santana was always the one that helped her figure things out before - but for now this quiet time was good enough.
End
Author: Alex Foster
Word Count: 400
Pairing: Brittany/Santana
Rating: PG
Summary: Santana doesn't believe in fairy tales but Brittany enjoys them so she plays along.
Author's Notes: Written for Author's Mill prompt Briar Rose. Set post Sexy. A copy of the Briar Rose fairy tale can be found here if anyone is interested. Thank you for reading.
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Santana found the book while cleaning her room of all the reminders of their friendship Brittany had left behind over the years. The book with its old cloth dust jacket she remembered immediately. Grimm’s Tales.
Contrary to popular belief, Brittany did read - when it was something she liked. And Brittany, at least when she was little, liked the stories in that book. When she gave it to Santana and asked her to read aloud she said it was because she was tired of hearing her own head voice.
Secretly Santana liked the stories too because they were like lyrics or poems that made sense. Brittany would curl against her, close her eyes, and wait patiently for each story to begin. That part had been nice too.
Flipping thin pages that smelled like an old librarian, Santana told her about Briar Rose’s sleeping curse, the hedge of thorns, and how the prince kissed Rose as the kingdom woke from its century long slumber.
She glossed over how those thorns around the castle were sharp and deadly and how many young men died in them thinking they could win the princess. The story ended happily so she figured Brittany would be pleased.
“That’s not right,” she said. “The prince got credit for something he didn’t do.”
“Yes, he did. He woke the princess.”
“The curse was for one hundred years,” Brittany insisted. “He just showed up on the right day and everyone thinks he made it right.”
Santana decided Disney was better because it wasn’t as complicated as Grimm. “Well, Britt, look at it this way: the princess and prince wouldn’t have ended up together if she hadn’t slept for so long. In a way they just had to wait until they were both in the same place at the same time.
“The thicket knew that and why it appeared as simple flowers to him and let him in. No one else could get through because they weren’t the right one.”
“Oh. Is that why the pigeons went to sleep, too?”
Santana kissed the top of Brittany’s head. “Yeah, that’s why.”
She hadn’t really believed any of that - it was just a stupid story for stupid kids - but it soothed Brittany and made her happy. Now, years later, she considered the book and all its memories for a long while before finally placing it back on the shelf. It was worth keeping.
End
Title: In The Hush I Heard You Sigh
Author: Alex Foster
Word Count: 100
Pairing: Brittany/Santana
Rating: PG
Summary: One day they will talk but until then they have the silence.
Author's Notes: Written for Slashthedrabble prompt Silence. Set before Sexy. Thank you for reading.
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Brittany enjoyed the silence and nestled against the warm body next to her.
She liked it when Santana drifted to sleep after their not cheating time and they could snuggle like they used to before things got confusing. She thought Santana liked it too because she caught her pretending to be asleep several times and acted like she didn’t realize.
Brittany wanted to talk to her and make sense of this relationship and why it made her stomach tingle - Santana was always the one that helped her figure things out before - but for now this quiet time was good enough.
End