Title: Old Chains
Claim: Rinoa/Caraway
Rating: G
Prompt: Digging, hidden, the other side (#9, #42, #71)
A/N: Based on the scene between Rinoa/Caraway at Caraway's mansion in Disc 1.

She felt a chill on the back of her neck, that same familiar chill; it was him, she knew it. It had been, what, a year? He hadn't changed, but he could tell from her ( Read more... )

Title: The Dirty Ground
Characters: Rinoa/Caraway
Prompts: Sin, blood, fever (#25, #93, #70)
Rating: G
Summary: The day Rinoa was born.

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The day she was born, there had been an uprising. A peaceful protest that got ugly in a hot March; such unrelenting heat with no rain to nourish the wilting trees. I missed the rain. It would have been able to ( Read more... )

Title: Paper Flowers
Claim: Rinoa/Caraway
Prompts: "I'm sorry", blue, old (#89, #20, #14) 
Rating: G
Summary: In the aftermath of Julia's death, they both find it hard to connect

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She hated this medicine. It tasted like tar.
The doctors said she was still a little sick, so they made her stay in bed. She had bruises on her back that hurt sometimes and ( Read more... )

Title: Knives
Claim: Rinoa / Caraway
Prompts: Deception, saying goodbye, till death do us part (#24, #57, #27) 
Rating: G
Summary: Julia's funeral.

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If anyone here had known her Mother well enough, people would have known she hated black.

This was what Rinoa thought as they piled in, pretty pearl necklaces on gaunt necks and eyes being patted ( Read more... )

Title: Pins
Claim: Rinoa/Caraway
Rating: G
Prompt: Left alone, nature (#41, #12)
Note: This is a little soppy, but in a good way, I hope? This is set in the aftermath of Julia's death.

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He had tried so hard to learn how to plait her hair, but his fingers seemed deft enough for a pistol but not for the softness of her young hair. Sighing, he let her ( Read more... )

Title: The Half Hour
Claim: Rinoa/Caraway
Rating: K (some language)
Prompts: Ice, 'a fork in the road', winter (#11, #34, #97)
Note: Chronicles the day Julia died, and should be subsequently read alongside 'Don't Take Me Away From Here'

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1900 hrs.

The small desk lamp emitted a strangely warm glow. Caraway lit a cigarette, trying to keep his eyes ( Read more... )

Title: Don't Take Me Away From Here
Claim: Rinoa/Caraway
Rating: K (some language) 
Prompts: Pale, fear, dying (#23, #2, #83) 
Note: Chronicles the day Julia died, and should be subsequently read alongside 'The Half Hour'

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Rinoa wondered if her Father would notice the dried blood on her face. She worried because if he looked at her with sadness ( Read more... )

Title: Bonfires ( Read more... )

Title: Sincerely
Claim: Rinoa/Caraway
Prompts: Letters, going astray, waiting (#45, #66, #55)
Rating: G
Summary: Stop being stupid and come home.

Dear Rinoa,

I know you're angry, just stop being stupid and come home.

I didn't mean what I said. You know that. We both have a habit of getting very angry. It just shocked me when I could smell something on ( Read more... )

Title: Grandpa
Prompt: Smile, Introspection, Unsent Letters (#33, #59, #79),
Rating: G
Claim: Rinoa/Caraway
( clean shirt, a glass of lemonade, us )