Fic: And All Between: In The Woods (Yuffie, Aerith, Leon; G)
Another of the "And All Between" backstory quasi-series. I ♥ Yuffie.
I've been writing a lot lately. I keep expecting to hit a wall, but... I guess I'll enjoy it while it lasts!
Title: And All Between: In The Woods
Words: ~300
Characters/Pairings: Yuffie, Aerith, Leon
Rating: G
Summary: At seven years old, Yuffie is the one who understands their exile in Traverse Town best.
Spoilers: Just for KH1, I believe.
Yuffie knows this story. They are children lost in the woods -- all three of them -- and they have no trail of breadcrumbs to lead them home, nor a path to guide them, nor talking streams to give them advice. They only have each other, but that's enough.
Yuffie knows this story, but she thinks Squall and Aerith don't remember it. Or at least, Squall and Aerith -- at sixteen and fifteen -- don't believe it to apply to them, because they think of themselves as adults. (She knows that Aerith cries at night about her mother, and she knows that Squall refuses to cry, just as he refuses to answer to his own name, because he wants to reassure himself of his own strength. She doesn't think she'll ever get used to calling him 'Leon.')
She knows they think they need to be adults for her. She thinks this is stupid. She isn't just Yuffie but The Great Yuffie, and at this rate, she's going to have to start taking care of them.
Yuffie knows this story, and she knows it's not a story you come safely through by thinking like an adult. She knows that if the two of them will go on insisting on being serious that she will have to work twice as hard at not being serious, to make up for it.
And at the end of the story, she will be the one to chop off the wolf's head, to slam the oven door on the witch, to carry home the skull whose eyes burn with holy fire. And then she will lead them home, running, laughing, on a trail of breadcrumbs.
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Author's Notes: Written for kh_drabble's "Fairy Tales" challenge. Kind a 'babes in the woods' grab bag. :D I referenced Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Brother and Sister, and Vasilisa the Beautiful; the latter two are less-well-known but some of my favorites. Mostly I just wanted to play with 'young Yuffie, shortly after they escape Hollow Bastion.'
I've been writing a lot lately. I keep expecting to hit a wall, but... I guess I'll enjoy it while it lasts!
Title: And All Between: In The Woods
Words: ~300
Characters/Pairings: Yuffie, Aerith, Leon
Rating: G
Summary: At seven years old, Yuffie is the one who understands their exile in Traverse Town best.
Spoilers: Just for KH1, I believe.
Yuffie knows this story. They are children lost in the woods -- all three of them -- and they have no trail of breadcrumbs to lead them home, nor a path to guide them, nor talking streams to give them advice. They only have each other, but that's enough.
Yuffie knows this story, but she thinks Squall and Aerith don't remember it. Or at least, Squall and Aerith -- at sixteen and fifteen -- don't believe it to apply to them, because they think of themselves as adults. (She knows that Aerith cries at night about her mother, and she knows that Squall refuses to cry, just as he refuses to answer to his own name, because he wants to reassure himself of his own strength. She doesn't think she'll ever get used to calling him 'Leon.')
She knows they think they need to be adults for her. She thinks this is stupid. She isn't just Yuffie but The Great Yuffie, and at this rate, she's going to have to start taking care of them.
Yuffie knows this story, and she knows it's not a story you come safely through by thinking like an adult. She knows that if the two of them will go on insisting on being serious that she will have to work twice as hard at not being serious, to make up for it.
And at the end of the story, she will be the one to chop off the wolf's head, to slam the oven door on the witch, to carry home the skull whose eyes burn with holy fire. And then she will lead them home, running, laughing, on a trail of breadcrumbs.
***
Author's Notes: Written for kh_drabble's "Fairy Tales" challenge. Kind a 'babes in the woods' grab bag. :D I referenced Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Brother and Sister, and Vasilisa the Beautiful; the latter two are less-well-known but some of my favorites. Mostly I just wanted to play with 'young Yuffie, shortly after they escape Hollow Bastion.'