Westmark
Zara/Justin, yellow
Zara gathers buttercups and violets along the roadside, yellow and blue, and then throws them away, disgusted with herself.
Westmark/Notre-Dame de Paris
Zara/Fleur-de-lys, fashion
Fleur-de-lys makes more and more outrageous demands of her dressmaker, first in the name of fashion, then out of pique, and finally in fascination: she has never before, in all her young life, met a woman she could not daunt.
Firefly
Kaylee/Inara, release
The tide ebbs for the last time; Kaylee draws in a shuddering breath, and releases it in a long, sweet laugh, nestling against Inara's bare shoulder.
Les Mis
Courfeyrac, jittery
Courfeyrac grows jittery as the days shorten; by October there will be a new lover.
Arthurian
Merlin/Nimue, treasure
He is her buried treasure, her skeleton in the closet, her secret; in the swiftness of time, she takes comfort in knowing he remains, just as she left him.
Mordred/Bedivere, world
When they met again finally, halfway across the world from the Welsh mountains and the rocky island coasts, they both knew a moment of homecoming.
Emily of New Moon
Dean, pattern
Emily's letters grow less frequent, and then shorter, and Dean begins to hate opening them; he can see the pattern begin to repeat itself.
Gawain/Arthur
Gawain tries to break himself of the habit of finishing his uncle's sentences, until he begins to notice the pauses left for him.
Florian+Luther
The young man's eyes are cool and steady, not daunted by the old man's reticence. He has secrets of his own, those eyes say, too deep for telling; and he doesn't press the point. Luther's smile completes his, in silence.