Two drabbles: FFVI and FFVII
Title: In Fortune's Hand
Author: silvr_dagger
Fandom: FFVI
Characters/Pairings:Setzer, Terra
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Warnings: Spoilers for the end of the game
Summary: The flight from Kefka's tower
She falls like a star from a dying sky.
Setzer throws the Falcon into a dive, all power to engines. The air is acrid with the smell and taste of burning, red clouds reflecting the glow of unnatural fires in the distance. They killed a god today, and they still can't save one of their own.
The wheel spins. The sky burns. The tower falls around them.
Then she's in his arms, and everything is right again. Ruin doesn't win this hand. Something, still, can be salvaged.
When things fall, they fall.
But sometimes, with luck, you can catch them.
Title: Portents
Author: silvr_dagger
Fandom: FFVII
Characters/Pairings:Aeris
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Warnings: None
Summary: In Midgar, where things begin
Aeris is there to see the Reactor go up that night, walking alone beneath the pall of neon, her arms full of flowers. She's there to see that ascending cloud of fire, and feel the tremor it sends down deep through the Planet and up again through the soles of her boots, and she feels again the tidal pull of an old, indefinable dread - not because there's anything worth fearing in earth or in fire, but because she can sense the beginnings of a change in the silence that follows, and time is already slipping too quickly through her hands.
Author: silvr_dagger
Fandom: FFVI
Characters/Pairings:Setzer, Terra
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Warnings: Spoilers for the end of the game
Summary: The flight from Kefka's tower
She falls like a star from a dying sky.
Setzer throws the Falcon into a dive, all power to engines. The air is acrid with the smell and taste of burning, red clouds reflecting the glow of unnatural fires in the distance. They killed a god today, and they still can't save one of their own.
The wheel spins. The sky burns. The tower falls around them.
Then she's in his arms, and everything is right again. Ruin doesn't win this hand. Something, still, can be salvaged.
When things fall, they fall.
But sometimes, with luck, you can catch them.
Title: Portents
Author: silvr_dagger
Fandom: FFVII
Characters/Pairings:Aeris
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Warnings: None
Summary: In Midgar, where things begin
Aeris is there to see the Reactor go up that night, walking alone beneath the pall of neon, her arms full of flowers. She's there to see that ascending cloud of fire, and feel the tremor it sends down deep through the Planet and up again through the soles of her boots, and she feels again the tidal pull of an old, indefinable dread - not because there's anything worth fearing in earth or in fire, but because she can sense the beginnings of a change in the silence that follows, and time is already slipping too quickly through her hands.