fic: Fragments
Click the cut for some Irvine and Squall lovin' - just 25 drabble-sentences, but still fun to write.
Mostly worksafe, I think. There's nothing really explicit, but there is some strong innuendo.
The prompts for these were given to me by various people - mostly my friends giving me random words.
* Regarding #15: Shakespeare, they’re watching the 1996 version of Romeo & Juliet, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. Yes, I know it’s an Earth reference… please don’t pick on it too much! ^^
#1: Autumn
Squall didn’t know what it was about Irvine, but the cowboy made him poetic, somehow, because as he buried his nose into the soft, thick mass of auburn hair, he couldn’t help but think that autumn always was his favourite season.
#2: Winter
Irvine loved winter - not for the cold and the wet and, on missions, the uncomfortable frozen dirt, but because on the coldest of days, when everything was sparkly white and all of Garden was snowed in, he got to make two steaming mugs of hot chocolate and drink them cuddled up with Squall in front of the fire sharing a blanket, followed by an hour or two or languid, unhurried lovemaking, and those were the best days of the year.
#3: Spring
Squall hated the rain, and consequently hated spring, but Irvine felt there was something to be said for a dripping wet, brooding Squall Leonhart.
#4: Summer
Summer was a bit torturous for Irvine, who had to watch his lover eating popsicles daily in the cafeteria, and be completely unable to tackle him to the floor and have his wicked way with the startled Commander like he always wanted to.
#5: Storm
The best thing about Squall was his eyes - when the young warrior was fighting, they were an icy blue; the rare times when he was laughing they were a clear quicksilver; and when he was hovering over Irvine with a look of hunger on his face, straddling the sniper’s thighs, they were the dark, dangerous blue-gray swirl of a coming storm.
#6: Ow
There was no way to accurately describe the dizzying, euphoric rush of relief that stole the breath from his lungs when a bloodied, battered, bruised and almost-broken Squall at last opened his eyes, twitched a finger, and croaked, “Fucking ow.”
#7: Assistance
“You know, you’re not being very helpful,” Squall gasped, entirely without malice as lips fluttered over his neck while Irvine deftly undid the buttons that had been fastened only a few moments before, to which Irvine retorted, “I’m plenty helpful, darlin’ - just in an entirely different way.”
#8: Jealousy
“He only wants you because he’s had all the pretty girls,” she hissed at him, and it was the first time in Squall’s life that he seriously considered hitting a woman.
#9: Hydrogen
“I don’t see why we’re staring at a giant burning ball of hydrogen,” Squall was saying scathingly, but Irvine pulled him down to sit on the grassy hill anyway, and told him to just fucking enjoy the sunset.
#10: Purple
“I hate purple,” grumbled Squall as Irvine spread the brand new amethyst-hued silk sheets over their bed: “it’s girly and I don’t like it, and - oh, hell, that does feel nice on your skin - damn it, Irvine, stop laughing!”
#11: Charm
“How did you do that?” Squall asked Irvine after the sniper had just flirted his way into getting them extra dessert from the usually sour-faced middle-aged woman behind the cafeteria counter, and Irvine turned a warm, easy smile on him, with imploring soft violet eyes, and winked - and Squall felt even his own scowl softening.
#12: Sting
Staring at Irvine’s retreating back, Squall felt a prickle at the back of his eyes that he hadn’t felt since Rinoa had walked out on him, and wondered how the fight had even started in the first place.
#13: Romance
The girls had been right, Squall grudgingly admitted to himself, watching his lover’s delighted face as the sniper took in the candlelight and rose petals - Irvine really was a born romantic.
#14: Making Up
“You know, if the make-up sex is like that every time,” Irvine gasped, trying to remember how to move his body, which seemed to have melted away, “then it’s almost worth the fighting.”
#15: Shakespeare *
“They’re idiots,” Squall scoffed, rolling his eyes as the beautiful young woman on the screen put a gun to her head and fell across her lover’s corpse, but Irvine just pulled him closer, kissing his hair and explaining, “They’re in love.”
#16: Cookies
“Squall, honey, give it up,” Irvine said, struggling not to laugh as Squall gazed balefully at the charred lumps on the baking pan, “you’re just not a cook.”
#17: Desk
Squall’s secretary didn’t question him at all when he ordered his desk be replaced with a new one - but Irvine did, and couldn’t stop laughing when Squall grudgingly admitted that after the mind-blowing sex they’d had on its shiny dark surface a few days earlier, he could no longer even look at it without getting aroused.
#18: Trust
“There are different kinds of trust, Squall,” Irvine was saying, his fingers sliding through the Commander’s hair in a soothing way, “and you may trust me with a lot of things-we’ll just have to work on you trusting me not to break your heart.”
#19: Chocolate
Irvine spent a week trying to figure out Squall’s sweet tooth - everyone had one, it was just a matter of figuring out what candy triggered it - until he found a defensive Squall Leonhart stuffing a small bar of dark chocolate into his mouth, a muffled, “Oh, shut up Irvine,” as his only explanation.
#20: Nightmare
When Squall awoke, screaming, to familiar violet eyes hovering over him and a hand smoothing down his sweat-soaked hair, Irvine gathered him into his arms, pressed so tight together that there was not even a hair’s breadth between them, and Squall murmured that it felt familiar somehow - he was not at all surprised when Irvine told him, “We used to do this back in the orphanage, too.”
#21: Kiss
Not that he wanted to test this theory, of course, but there was no doubt in Squall’s mind (as a tongue brushed against his own and warm hands slid over his bare skin, hips grinding into his; kissing as though they couldn’t breathe without the air in each other’s lungs) that no one, no one could kiss like Irvine Kinneas.
#22: Sleeping In
Squall didn’t often sleep in - he was Commander of Balamb Garden, he seldom had the time - but when he woke to find that the sun was high up, and that Irvine had switched off the alarm and taken the phone off the hook, it only took a little bit of convincing before he relaxed into Irvine’s sleepy embrace and returned the languid kisses wholeheartedly: the world could wait a little while longer.
#23: Coffee
Coffee, in Squall’s opinion, was probably the best beverage ever invented, and of course coffee was good even when it was too weak or cold or burnt - but somehow, it always tasted better when it was made by Irvine and delivered with a kiss.
#25: Threat
It didn’t matter that he was her Commander, nor that he was several inches taller than her - Selphie Tilmitt didn’t let things like that stop her - and when she heard that Squall and Irvine were together, she marched right up to her boss and informed him with an evil glint in her eye that if he ever, ever put even the tiniest little crack in Irvine’s heart she would personally rip him limb from limb.
#25: Meet the Parents
“I’m sort of… seeing someone,” Squall had admitted to his father, and then immediately regretted it when Laguna demanded to know who it was, and what did she do for a living, and how old was she, and what did she look like, and would she be free for dinner this Friday night - but on the bright side, Squall could boast to everyone that he had actually stunned the chatterbox President of Esthar into speechlessness with a simple, “Actually, it’s Irvine.”
It's possible I'll continue these later... I'm not sure yet. Comments would be great! (Although almost nobody knows about my writing at the moment, so I doubt many are reading this... ><)
Mostly worksafe, I think. There's nothing really explicit, but there is some strong innuendo.
The prompts for these were given to me by various people - mostly my friends giving me random words.
* Regarding #15: Shakespeare, they’re watching the 1996 version of Romeo & Juliet, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. Yes, I know it’s an Earth reference… please don’t pick on it too much! ^^
#1: Autumn
Squall didn’t know what it was about Irvine, but the cowboy made him poetic, somehow, because as he buried his nose into the soft, thick mass of auburn hair, he couldn’t help but think that autumn always was his favourite season.
#2: Winter
Irvine loved winter - not for the cold and the wet and, on missions, the uncomfortable frozen dirt, but because on the coldest of days, when everything was sparkly white and all of Garden was snowed in, he got to make two steaming mugs of hot chocolate and drink them cuddled up with Squall in front of the fire sharing a blanket, followed by an hour or two or languid, unhurried lovemaking, and those were the best days of the year.
#3: Spring
Squall hated the rain, and consequently hated spring, but Irvine felt there was something to be said for a dripping wet, brooding Squall Leonhart.
#4: Summer
Summer was a bit torturous for Irvine, who had to watch his lover eating popsicles daily in the cafeteria, and be completely unable to tackle him to the floor and have his wicked way with the startled Commander like he always wanted to.
#5: Storm
The best thing about Squall was his eyes - when the young warrior was fighting, they were an icy blue; the rare times when he was laughing they were a clear quicksilver; and when he was hovering over Irvine with a look of hunger on his face, straddling the sniper’s thighs, they were the dark, dangerous blue-gray swirl of a coming storm.
#6: Ow
There was no way to accurately describe the dizzying, euphoric rush of relief that stole the breath from his lungs when a bloodied, battered, bruised and almost-broken Squall at last opened his eyes, twitched a finger, and croaked, “Fucking ow.”
#7: Assistance
“You know, you’re not being very helpful,” Squall gasped, entirely without malice as lips fluttered over his neck while Irvine deftly undid the buttons that had been fastened only a few moments before, to which Irvine retorted, “I’m plenty helpful, darlin’ - just in an entirely different way.”
#8: Jealousy
“He only wants you because he’s had all the pretty girls,” she hissed at him, and it was the first time in Squall’s life that he seriously considered hitting a woman.
#9: Hydrogen
“I don’t see why we’re staring at a giant burning ball of hydrogen,” Squall was saying scathingly, but Irvine pulled him down to sit on the grassy hill anyway, and told him to just fucking enjoy the sunset.
#10: Purple
“I hate purple,” grumbled Squall as Irvine spread the brand new amethyst-hued silk sheets over their bed: “it’s girly and I don’t like it, and - oh, hell, that does feel nice on your skin - damn it, Irvine, stop laughing!”
#11: Charm
“How did you do that?” Squall asked Irvine after the sniper had just flirted his way into getting them extra dessert from the usually sour-faced middle-aged woman behind the cafeteria counter, and Irvine turned a warm, easy smile on him, with imploring soft violet eyes, and winked - and Squall felt even his own scowl softening.
#12: Sting
Staring at Irvine’s retreating back, Squall felt a prickle at the back of his eyes that he hadn’t felt since Rinoa had walked out on him, and wondered how the fight had even started in the first place.
#13: Romance
The girls had been right, Squall grudgingly admitted to himself, watching his lover’s delighted face as the sniper took in the candlelight and rose petals - Irvine really was a born romantic.
#14: Making Up
“You know, if the make-up sex is like that every time,” Irvine gasped, trying to remember how to move his body, which seemed to have melted away, “then it’s almost worth the fighting.”
#15: Shakespeare *
“They’re idiots,” Squall scoffed, rolling his eyes as the beautiful young woman on the screen put a gun to her head and fell across her lover’s corpse, but Irvine just pulled him closer, kissing his hair and explaining, “They’re in love.”
#16: Cookies
“Squall, honey, give it up,” Irvine said, struggling not to laugh as Squall gazed balefully at the charred lumps on the baking pan, “you’re just not a cook.”
#17: Desk
Squall’s secretary didn’t question him at all when he ordered his desk be replaced with a new one - but Irvine did, and couldn’t stop laughing when Squall grudgingly admitted that after the mind-blowing sex they’d had on its shiny dark surface a few days earlier, he could no longer even look at it without getting aroused.
#18: Trust
“There are different kinds of trust, Squall,” Irvine was saying, his fingers sliding through the Commander’s hair in a soothing way, “and you may trust me with a lot of things-we’ll just have to work on you trusting me not to break your heart.”
#19: Chocolate
Irvine spent a week trying to figure out Squall’s sweet tooth - everyone had one, it was just a matter of figuring out what candy triggered it - until he found a defensive Squall Leonhart stuffing a small bar of dark chocolate into his mouth, a muffled, “Oh, shut up Irvine,” as his only explanation.
#20: Nightmare
When Squall awoke, screaming, to familiar violet eyes hovering over him and a hand smoothing down his sweat-soaked hair, Irvine gathered him into his arms, pressed so tight together that there was not even a hair’s breadth between them, and Squall murmured that it felt familiar somehow - he was not at all surprised when Irvine told him, “We used to do this back in the orphanage, too.”
#21: Kiss
Not that he wanted to test this theory, of course, but there was no doubt in Squall’s mind (as a tongue brushed against his own and warm hands slid over his bare skin, hips grinding into his; kissing as though they couldn’t breathe without the air in each other’s lungs) that no one, no one could kiss like Irvine Kinneas.
#22: Sleeping In
Squall didn’t often sleep in - he was Commander of Balamb Garden, he seldom had the time - but when he woke to find that the sun was high up, and that Irvine had switched off the alarm and taken the phone off the hook, it only took a little bit of convincing before he relaxed into Irvine’s sleepy embrace and returned the languid kisses wholeheartedly: the world could wait a little while longer.
#23: Coffee
Coffee, in Squall’s opinion, was probably the best beverage ever invented, and of course coffee was good even when it was too weak or cold or burnt - but somehow, it always tasted better when it was made by Irvine and delivered with a kiss.
#25: Threat
It didn’t matter that he was her Commander, nor that he was several inches taller than her - Selphie Tilmitt didn’t let things like that stop her - and when she heard that Squall and Irvine were together, she marched right up to her boss and informed him with an evil glint in her eye that if he ever, ever put even the tiniest little crack in Irvine’s heart she would personally rip him limb from limb.
#25: Meet the Parents
“I’m sort of… seeing someone,” Squall had admitted to his father, and then immediately regretted it when Laguna demanded to know who it was, and what did she do for a living, and how old was she, and what did she look like, and would she be free for dinner this Friday night - but on the bright side, Squall could boast to everyone that he had actually stunned the chatterbox President of Esthar into speechlessness with a simple, “Actually, it’s Irvine.”
It's possible I'll continue these later... I'm not sure yet. Comments would be great! (Although almost nobody knows about my writing at the moment, so I doubt many are reading this... ><)