Gymnast // Stars
Title: Gymnast
Fandom: Animorphs
Characters: Rachel
Spoilers: None
Words: 122
Rating: G
Summary: The only thing that gives her a bigger rush than drawing blood is flying through the air on the uneven bars.
She stares down the balance beam, daring it to make her fall.
She glares at the uneven bars, challenging them to drop her.
She faces the vault with her head held high, inviting it to try defying her.
The leotard is the same one she wears for missions and by all rights it should be stained with the blood of a thousand battles but it isn’t.
She doesn’t really have time for gymnastics anymore and she should quit, but not yet, because when she pirouettes on the balance beam or swings over the top of the uneven bars or twists over the vault and sticks the landing she is graceful and beautiful and dangerous.
When she is a gymnast she can fly.
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Title: Stars
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Neville/Ginny
Spoilers: None
Words: 200
Rating: PG
Summary: They dance all night and he never wants it to end, but it does and that's when it gets better.
Notes: Yule Ball.
“Blimey, it’s hot. Do you want to go outside?” She grabs his hand, face almost as red as her hair, and drags him out of the hall into a soft white landscape. Kicking off her shoes she flops down in the snow, heedless of her dress.
“Gorgeous, isn’t it?” she says, pointing out at the frozen lake. “The way it reflects the starlight like that.”
“Er, yeah,” he agrees, though his own thoughts are on dancing and freckles and pretty red hair. He sits down, knowing Gran will kill him if he ruins his dress robes but not really caring.
She leans her head on his shoulder and he raises an arm to wrap it around her but just as he does she pulls away to point happily at the sky. “Ooh, look! A shooting star!”
“Make a wish,” he says, and does. When it disappears behind the mountains he turns away.
“This was fun.” She leans over to plant a quick kiss on his cheek. “Thanks. See you in the morning.” She gets up, finds her shoes, and returns to the castle, leaving him alone in the snow and the dark wondering when the stars got so bright.
Fandom: Animorphs
Characters: Rachel
Spoilers: None
Words: 122
Rating: G
Summary: The only thing that gives her a bigger rush than drawing blood is flying through the air on the uneven bars.
She stares down the balance beam, daring it to make her fall.
She glares at the uneven bars, challenging them to drop her.
She faces the vault with her head held high, inviting it to try defying her.
The leotard is the same one she wears for missions and by all rights it should be stained with the blood of a thousand battles but it isn’t.
She doesn’t really have time for gymnastics anymore and she should quit, but not yet, because when she pirouettes on the balance beam or swings over the top of the uneven bars or twists over the vault and sticks the landing she is graceful and beautiful and dangerous.
When she is a gymnast she can fly.
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Title: Stars
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Neville/Ginny
Spoilers: None
Words: 200
Rating: PG
Summary: They dance all night and he never wants it to end, but it does and that's when it gets better.
Notes: Yule Ball.
“Blimey, it’s hot. Do you want to go outside?” She grabs his hand, face almost as red as her hair, and drags him out of the hall into a soft white landscape. Kicking off her shoes she flops down in the snow, heedless of her dress.
“Gorgeous, isn’t it?” she says, pointing out at the frozen lake. “The way it reflects the starlight like that.”
“Er, yeah,” he agrees, though his own thoughts are on dancing and freckles and pretty red hair. He sits down, knowing Gran will kill him if he ruins his dress robes but not really caring.
She leans her head on his shoulder and he raises an arm to wrap it around her but just as he does she pulls away to point happily at the sky. “Ooh, look! A shooting star!”
“Make a wish,” he says, and does. When it disappears behind the mountains he turns away.
“This was fun.” She leans over to plant a quick kiss on his cheek. “Thanks. See you in the morning.” She gets up, finds her shoes, and returns to the castle, leaving him alone in the snow and the dark wondering when the stars got so bright.