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Story Title: Tantalising
Fandom: Shadow Raiders
Characters: Jade/Graveheart, Sternum
Summary: Jade's brief thoughts on her relationship with Sternum on the Prison Planet.
For Jade, Sternum was...interesting.
There was no denying his strength, something she knew first-hand. There was also no denying his charisma, his ability to draw men and women into his fold by providing respect, care, and kindness, as well as a fierce and bold leadership.
It was the kind of leadership Jade saw in herself, only finely honed into sharpness, made to greatness with little to no effort on his part.
Certainly, to a degree, it was attractive. Sternum's boldness, his confidence in the face of animosity, his ability to get beyond a past riddled with brutality and torture, and his sense of deep fondness for the people within his command...these were all things that anyone, not just a woman of Jade's character, could find attractive enough to follow with all of their heart.
But Jade had noticed too late just how keen Sternum was on not only having her at his side, but leading her astray. Not only in the battlefield, but in other ways as well. Pushing her search for Cryos and Graveheart to the back burner to focus their forces on breaking down Julia's stronghold was a good reason, but it was, she had to admit, a rather cunning distraction, as well.
If she had been a weaker woman, she, too, would have succumbed to that charm. But some stubbornness from her youth, the same streak that kept her at Graveheart's side even through the stupidest of missions, kept her on the right path.
She hadn't known how important that had been until her eyes fell on him after so long. It was like a punch to the chest, because even though she had thought she had accepted that he was dead, she hadn't. And even as she ran, even as her fingers found a hold on him, even as her lips met his, she knew how important it was that she had kept strong and had managed to deflect Sternum's consistent attempts to have her betray Graveheart.
And with that first taste of his kiss, she knew it was the right move, and that there was no going back, if she was even there to begin with.
Also, I had a huge plotpoint suddenly slap me across the face for The Silk Fan (you see, this is why it's worth it to watch Appa's Lost Days at LEAST twice!), so I'm happy now. Yay!
Fandom: Shadow Raiders
Characters: Jade/Graveheart, Sternum
Summary: Jade's brief thoughts on her relationship with Sternum on the Prison Planet.
For Jade, Sternum was...interesting.
There was no denying his strength, something she knew first-hand. There was also no denying his charisma, his ability to draw men and women into his fold by providing respect, care, and kindness, as well as a fierce and bold leadership.
It was the kind of leadership Jade saw in herself, only finely honed into sharpness, made to greatness with little to no effort on his part.
Certainly, to a degree, it was attractive. Sternum's boldness, his confidence in the face of animosity, his ability to get beyond a past riddled with brutality and torture, and his sense of deep fondness for the people within his command...these were all things that anyone, not just a woman of Jade's character, could find attractive enough to follow with all of their heart.
But Jade had noticed too late just how keen Sternum was on not only having her at his side, but leading her astray. Not only in the battlefield, but in other ways as well. Pushing her search for Cryos and Graveheart to the back burner to focus their forces on breaking down Julia's stronghold was a good reason, but it was, she had to admit, a rather cunning distraction, as well.
If she had been a weaker woman, she, too, would have succumbed to that charm. But some stubbornness from her youth, the same streak that kept her at Graveheart's side even through the stupidest of missions, kept her on the right path.
She hadn't known how important that had been until her eyes fell on him after so long. It was like a punch to the chest, because even though she had thought she had accepted that he was dead, she hadn't. And even as she ran, even as her fingers found a hold on him, even as her lips met his, she knew how important it was that she had kept strong and had managed to deflect Sternum's consistent attempts to have her betray Graveheart.
And with that first taste of his kiss, she knew it was the right move, and that there was no going back, if she was even there to begin with.
Also, I had a huge plotpoint suddenly slap me across the face for The Silk Fan (you see, this is why it's worth it to watch Appa's Lost Days at LEAST twice!), so I'm happy now. Yay!