'She Dreams in Color, She Dreams in Red,' Part 2 (A Collection of FiveSentenceFic drabbles)
Any and all productive critiques are welcome!
All are from Table One of 5sentence_fics
Table One, Prompt #14 Stay with Me
"You don't have to be a hawk forever, Tobias," she'd reminded as she drew him down on top of her in the grass.
"Tobias," she'd breathed into his ear as her lips teased the shell of his ear, "it doesn't have to be like this." And then she'd arched under him from where they lay alone and she'd smelled like sunshine and sadness deep in the woods surrounding the Hork Bajr valley. Her kisses had tasted like anchors to him, and he was sure she could taste his own regret on the kisses he stole back from her.
In the end, he hadn't answered, and she hadn't asked again.
A/N: As I remember, it's cannon that Rachel stopped asking Tobias to stay with her and give up his wings by the very end of the series... And it's my head!cannon that Rachel would have had something of a premonition that her time was almost up (weird Ellimist mojo?) before Jake even asked her to take her final mission. So place this just after all the Animorphs' families evacuated to the valley. Oh my favorite old-school OTP- why so tragic?!
Table One, Prompt #17 'Years of Erosion'
Once, she would have been appalled by what she had done tonight night. The blood had always disappeared from her body as soon as she'd shed fur for human skin, but back in the beginning its phantom flavor would have lingered on her tongue for hours. Screams of the enemy neighbors, teachers, classmates, family would have echoed for days. She formally cried alone over the lives she remembered ending beneath her claws in the cold hours of the morning.
Rachel slept unhaunted by nightmares this night, her heart numbed by the darkness she had embraced inside her own heart.
A/N: Darker then I had intended it to be. Consider it AU if your version of end of war!Rachel has more sunshine and rainbows then this one- I was more playing around with the version of Rachel KAA saw as being unable to cope in a post war world.
Table One, Prompt #20 'Crackerjacks'
"I am afraid I do not understand Prince Jake- this food contains neither crackers nor jacks. Ja-aaaaacks. Jacks."
"Just shut up and eat them Ax."
"Wait- did you take the prize out *before* you handed the box to him?"
A/N: Ehhehehehe. Well, it's an unusually named human food. Pretty much has to be about Ax-man, doesn't it?
Table One, prompt #23 'Cup of coffee'
Naomi watched her eldest- blond, blue-eyed, every physical inch Daniel's daughter- as she idly played with the sugar packets arranged in the holder between them. After months of next to no communication from Rachel, Naomi decided to drag her firstborn out to Starbucks to try and decipher what unknown force was pulling the fourteen-year-old away from her.
So far, the morning had been remarkably unproductive. Rachel, her eyes suspicious and guarded, had insisted nothing was wrong before lapsing into stony silence.
Rachel turned her head to watch a small flock of seagulls in the parking lot, and Naomi wondered if she wasn't too late to reach her daughter already.
A/N: I've always wondered just how much the parents noticed before the end... There's already one cannon conversation where Naomi tells her ex-husband off for assuming Rachel's on drugs, shouldn't she have noticed even more strangeness then an absent parent?
Table one, Prompt #24 'Drop in the Ocean'
Over a thousand graves void of bodies to fill them stretched out in all directions from his brother's. Tom's headstone was planted over ground empty of anything but the roots of the green grass blanketed over it. His cousin's highly visited "burial" site may have been empty, but that was by the choice of those who loved her.
But all these other graves... How many of them would remain forever unused due to his own decisions?
A/N: Because post-53 Jake is angst personified.
All are from Table One of 5sentence_fics
Table One, Prompt #14 Stay with Me
"You don't have to be a hawk forever, Tobias," she'd reminded as she drew him down on top of her in the grass.
"Tobias," she'd breathed into his ear as her lips teased the shell of his ear, "it doesn't have to be like this." And then she'd arched under him from where they lay alone and she'd smelled like sunshine and sadness deep in the woods surrounding the Hork Bajr valley. Her kisses had tasted like anchors to him, and he was sure she could taste his own regret on the kisses he stole back from her.
In the end, he hadn't answered, and she hadn't asked again.
A/N: As I remember, it's cannon that Rachel stopped asking Tobias to stay with her and give up his wings by the very end of the series... And it's my head!cannon that Rachel would have had something of a premonition that her time was almost up (weird Ellimist mojo?) before Jake even asked her to take her final mission. So place this just after all the Animorphs' families evacuated to the valley. Oh my favorite old-school OTP- why so tragic?!
Table One, Prompt #17 'Years of Erosion'
Once, she would have been appalled by what she had done tonight night. The blood had always disappeared from her body as soon as she'd shed fur for human skin, but back in the beginning its phantom flavor would have lingered on her tongue for hours. Screams of the enemy neighbors, teachers, classmates, family would have echoed for days. She formally cried alone over the lives she remembered ending beneath her claws in the cold hours of the morning.
Rachel slept unhaunted by nightmares this night, her heart numbed by the darkness she had embraced inside her own heart.
A/N: Darker then I had intended it to be. Consider it AU if your version of end of war!Rachel has more sunshine and rainbows then this one- I was more playing around with the version of Rachel KAA saw as being unable to cope in a post war world.
Table One, Prompt #20 'Crackerjacks'
"I am afraid I do not understand Prince Jake- this food contains neither crackers nor jacks. Ja-aaaaacks. Jacks."
"Just shut up and eat them Ax."
"Wait- did you take the prize out *before* you handed the box to him?"
A/N: Ehhehehehe. Well, it's an unusually named human food. Pretty much has to be about Ax-man, doesn't it?
Table One, prompt #23 'Cup of coffee'
Naomi watched her eldest- blond, blue-eyed, every physical inch Daniel's daughter- as she idly played with the sugar packets arranged in the holder between them. After months of next to no communication from Rachel, Naomi decided to drag her firstborn out to Starbucks to try and decipher what unknown force was pulling the fourteen-year-old away from her.
So far, the morning had been remarkably unproductive. Rachel, her eyes suspicious and guarded, had insisted nothing was wrong before lapsing into stony silence.
Rachel turned her head to watch a small flock of seagulls in the parking lot, and Naomi wondered if she wasn't too late to reach her daughter already.
A/N: I've always wondered just how much the parents noticed before the end... There's already one cannon conversation where Naomi tells her ex-husband off for assuming Rachel's on drugs, shouldn't she have noticed even more strangeness then an absent parent?
Table one, Prompt #24 'Drop in the Ocean'
Over a thousand graves void of bodies to fill them stretched out in all directions from his brother's. Tom's headstone was planted over ground empty of anything but the roots of the green grass blanketed over it. His cousin's highly visited "burial" site may have been empty, but that was by the choice of those who loved her.
But all these other graves... How many of them would remain forever unused due to his own decisions?
A/N: Because post-53 Jake is angst personified.