Animorphs; Marco/Cassie
Fandom: Animorphs
Pairing: Marco/Cassie
Theme set: Delta
Rating: PG-13 for sexual situations
These are definitely not in chronological order (sorry!), but are kind of not canon (since this is a non-canon pairing). Somehow, these all ended up in Marco's point of view.
01 Air
I wondered what Jake said to her that made her stay on Earth while the rest of the Animorphs flew into space to find Ax; I wondered how she could possibly sit back and do nothing while Ax was in trouble; I wondered how she would sleep knowing I could very possibly be dead.
02 Apples
There was always a bowl of fresh fruit in Cassie's kitchen; I always took a bright red apple and only ate half and she would give me a look and say the apples were only for people who intended to actually eat them.
03 Beginning
Yesterday, she was my best friend's cousin's best friend (because she definitely wasn't Jake's girlfriend); today she definitely isn't my girlfriend, but she is my something - she is mine.
04 Bugs
I squinched my nose at Cassie as she thrust her hand under the glass to catch a mosquito - she was so much braver than me when it came to bugs.
05 Coffee
I told her the worst thing about being officially dead was not getting coffee from Starbucks everyday; she laughed, saying I don't even like coffee - that wasn't the point.
06 Dark
We pressed our bodies close together and I ran my hands down her sides, feeling the slick material of her leotard; she was everything I wanted.
07 Despair
"If you want to make me cry that won't be so hard to do and if you should say goodbye, I'll still go on loving you," I sang softly in her ear, my voice low and hoarse- "each night I ask the stars up above, 'Why must I be a teenager in love?'"
08 Doors
I was late to math class - we had a test and I was failing - because I caught a glimpse of Cassie through the doorway; she was looking at her feet and frowning as her english teacher handed back her latest paper (she probably failed, that's why she was staying after class) - I made a mental note to teach her how to BS papers.
09 Drink
I cleared my throat four times before she asked if I wanted a glass of water; girls always made me nervous.
10 Duty
"I know we have to do it, but that doesn't mean I have to feel good about it - you get it, Marco, you get it - it isn't about duty with me - it is about what is right and good and I just don't know if I can do this."
11 Earth
She squeezed my hand as we looked through the window at our tiny blue planet - this is what we were fighting for.
12 End
Cassie asked me, as I lounged on a bale of hay debating whether I should walk or fly home, if I ever thought it would end; I couldn't lie to her.
13 Fall
I held my breath as Cassie's feathers slowly melted into dark, smooth skin praying that she would keep her wings and not plummet straight into the water - and certain death.
14 Fire
Sixty-five millions years ago, I kissed Cassie in front of a fire, wearing Tyrannosaurus skin as shoes and making sure no dinosaurs - or aliens - were going to attack.
15 Flexible
Cassie said she wanted to be a gymnast like Rachel so she could bend over backwards and defy gravity and all that.
16 Flying
Sometimes we would fly together, above the highway or through the forest, just to feel the wind in our feathers.
17 Food
Cassie brought me supplies - potato chips, chocolate bars, pop tarts - in a small cardboard box; I demolished the potato chips after thanking her and hid the box under the couch, hoping that Ax wouldn't find it there.
18 Foot
There was just something about the way she could run through the entire forest - cold and out of breath - with no shoes and still look pretty and laugh when we crashed in her barn on bales of hay.
19 Grave
They called us the last remaining Animorphs, but we spent all of our time at Rachel's grave talking about the War - we were just as far gone as everybody else.
20 Green
I changed color before shrinking; it made me want to throw up, it made her erupt into giggles.
21 Head
When she wasn't talking about what was morally right and how that would affect the planet, we could carry on decent conversations.
22 Hollow
When my mother died - or the Yeerk in her head faked her death - Cassie came to the funeral; I only knew her through Jake so it was weird, but I was grateful because when she shook my hand and offer condolences, I didn't feel so empty.
23 Honor
I didn't believe in any of that honor crap that Jake spouted before missions and neither did she; we always mocked Jake behind his back and laughed when he gave us his serious look.
24 Hope
Cassie pressed her lips to mine, quickly and softly, replacing fear and pain with warming hope.
25 Light
When I got caught up in the battle, in the scheming and lying, and I was close to losing myself to the War (much like Jake and Rachel did), Cassie pulled me close to her and reminded me that this would end and I'd have to live with myself after it was all over.
26 Lost
She was a butterfly because she was too compassionate and trustworthy and couldn't stand to see others in pain - I didn't leave my room for three days.
27 Metal
It was strange, the way things felt through my giant, leather hands; I picked her limp wolf body off the cold, blood-slicked floor and hardly noticed the weight in my palms (I just couldn't wait to get out of there so we could both demorph and be alive and I could feel her with my human hands).
28 New
In the beginning it was refreshing and fun and I would cover Cassie in kisses - on her neck and face and lips - and after battles I couldn't keep my hands away from her.
29 Old
"When we are old and have beards - or I have a beard and you have white, white hair that you wear in a bun - and we sit in our rocking chairs on the porch in the summer time drinking lemonade, I hope we remember what it was like when we were young and could run forever in our bare feet and stay underwater for ten minutes and fight evil parasitic aliens that want to take over the world - because if we didn't, that would be really sad."
30 Peace
"Marco, I doubt we will ever forget what this is like - I think it would be impossible to forget what this is like - but if this war ever ends and we all go back to our normal life, I will pretend that I have forgotten all the horrible things I have seen Down There and when we get old I will drink lemonade with you and just talk about the feeling of flying through the air, okay?"
31 Poison
She is too trustworthy; David betrayed us all, but Cassie took it most to heart; that night we turned him into a rat forever, she couldn't stop crying.
32 Pretty
I wiped her tears for the millionth time; I still don't know how she made it through.
33 Rain
Cassie ran to the scoop and pulled me from sleep to dance with her in the rain; she twirled in circles, arms outstretched and face towards the black, starless sky smiling.
34 Regret
Her toes curled and legs wrapped around mine, Cassie kissed my shoulders and clavicle and lips and eyelids, but I just stared into the darkness around us.
35 Roses
I spent my allowance on seventeen roses that I hid in Cassie's locker - one for every time she saved my life.
36 Secret
I wanted to tell Jake, but Cassie just kissed me and said Jake needed her more now than ever and kissed me again.
37 Snakes
"You have got to be kidding - you shove pills into the mouths of eagles and foxes and wolves... and you are scared of snakes?"
38 Snow
When my father asked me if I'd ever like to see the snow, I could only think of the North Pole and the snow soaked with Cassie's dark red blood as she slowly faded from the wound in her stomach; I told my father I hated snow.
39 Solid
When everything was falling apart around me and I had no choice but to run, I spent a lot of nights with Cassie in her barn laying in the hay and looking up into the rafters.
40 Spring
"Marco," she whispered, close to me and smelling like spring and flowers and poetry, "you know I need you, right?"
41 Stable
"Shhh," she half-whispered half-laughed as she followed me into an empty horse stall (I made a face at the hay at our feet and she chided me with a stern look), "I don't want anyone to hear us."
42 Strange
"It is strange how accustom we've come to morphing and fighting and this war and everything it represents - what would we do without all the battles and the secrecy ... and what would I do without you?"
43 Summer
I thought about asking Cassie to come to the beach with me on Saturday afternoon so we could swim in the ocean and kiss on the sand and not think about saving the world for once - but we had a mission that morning and neither of us would be up for the beach when we got back.
44 Taboo
"Do you think Tobias is gay?" I asked her once, as we lazed on the sofa in the scoop watching infomercials - she just laughed at me and shook her head.
45 Ugly
Cassie could make any transformation look like a work of art; I asked her to teach me once but she just laughed.
46 War
She sobbed into my shoulder and my murmurs of comfort did nothing to ease her mind; we were at war and she couldn't take it.
47 Water
My mother was dead - dead dead dead - drown at the bottom of the ocean (kind of ironic, as that is how everyone thought she died) and Cassie wrapped me in her arms as I cried.
48 Welcome
She came to my apartment to apologize, but instead of letting her in, I stepped outside and stared down at the welcome mat; I couldn't look her in the eyes.
49 Winter
It didn't snow in California, but it was cold enough to turn your lips blue after swimming in the ocean in skintight clothing; Cassie kissed my tinged fingers with her blue lips and laughed.
50 Wood
I watched as Cassie ran her hands over the walls of her new home in the Hork-Bajir cabin; her eyes were sad and desperate and it was then I realized the constant fighting was close to destroying her.
Pairing: Marco/Cassie
Theme set: Delta
Rating: PG-13 for sexual situations
These are definitely not in chronological order (sorry!), but are kind of not canon (since this is a non-canon pairing). Somehow, these all ended up in Marco's point of view.
01 Air
I wondered what Jake said to her that made her stay on Earth while the rest of the Animorphs flew into space to find Ax; I wondered how she could possibly sit back and do nothing while Ax was in trouble; I wondered how she would sleep knowing I could very possibly be dead.
02 Apples
There was always a bowl of fresh fruit in Cassie's kitchen; I always took a bright red apple and only ate half and she would give me a look and say the apples were only for people who intended to actually eat them.
03 Beginning
Yesterday, she was my best friend's cousin's best friend (because she definitely wasn't Jake's girlfriend); today she definitely isn't my girlfriend, but she is my something - she is mine.
04 Bugs
I squinched my nose at Cassie as she thrust her hand under the glass to catch a mosquito - she was so much braver than me when it came to bugs.
05 Coffee
I told her the worst thing about being officially dead was not getting coffee from Starbucks everyday; she laughed, saying I don't even like coffee - that wasn't the point.
06 Dark
We pressed our bodies close together and I ran my hands down her sides, feeling the slick material of her leotard; she was everything I wanted.
07 Despair
"If you want to make me cry that won't be so hard to do and if you should say goodbye, I'll still go on loving you," I sang softly in her ear, my voice low and hoarse- "each night I ask the stars up above, 'Why must I be a teenager in love?'"
08 Doors
I was late to math class - we had a test and I was failing - because I caught a glimpse of Cassie through the doorway; she was looking at her feet and frowning as her english teacher handed back her latest paper (she probably failed, that's why she was staying after class) - I made a mental note to teach her how to BS papers.
09 Drink
I cleared my throat four times before she asked if I wanted a glass of water; girls always made me nervous.
10 Duty
"I know we have to do it, but that doesn't mean I have to feel good about it - you get it, Marco, you get it - it isn't about duty with me - it is about what is right and good and I just don't know if I can do this."
11 Earth
She squeezed my hand as we looked through the window at our tiny blue planet - this is what we were fighting for.
12 End
Cassie asked me, as I lounged on a bale of hay debating whether I should walk or fly home, if I ever thought it would end; I couldn't lie to her.
13 Fall
I held my breath as Cassie's feathers slowly melted into dark, smooth skin praying that she would keep her wings and not plummet straight into the water - and certain death.
14 Fire
Sixty-five millions years ago, I kissed Cassie in front of a fire, wearing Tyrannosaurus skin as shoes and making sure no dinosaurs - or aliens - were going to attack.
15 Flexible
Cassie said she wanted to be a gymnast like Rachel so she could bend over backwards and defy gravity and all that.
16 Flying
Sometimes we would fly together, above the highway or through the forest, just to feel the wind in our feathers.
17 Food
Cassie brought me supplies - potato chips, chocolate bars, pop tarts - in a small cardboard box; I demolished the potato chips after thanking her and hid the box under the couch, hoping that Ax wouldn't find it there.
18 Foot
There was just something about the way she could run through the entire forest - cold and out of breath - with no shoes and still look pretty and laugh when we crashed in her barn on bales of hay.
19 Grave
They called us the last remaining Animorphs, but we spent all of our time at Rachel's grave talking about the War - we were just as far gone as everybody else.
20 Green
I changed color before shrinking; it made me want to throw up, it made her erupt into giggles.
21 Head
When she wasn't talking about what was morally right and how that would affect the planet, we could carry on decent conversations.
22 Hollow
When my mother died - or the Yeerk in her head faked her death - Cassie came to the funeral; I only knew her through Jake so it was weird, but I was grateful because when she shook my hand and offer condolences, I didn't feel so empty.
23 Honor
I didn't believe in any of that honor crap that Jake spouted before missions and neither did she; we always mocked Jake behind his back and laughed when he gave us his serious look.
24 Hope
Cassie pressed her lips to mine, quickly and softly, replacing fear and pain with warming hope.
25 Light
When I got caught up in the battle, in the scheming and lying, and I was close to losing myself to the War (much like Jake and Rachel did), Cassie pulled me close to her and reminded me that this would end and I'd have to live with myself after it was all over.
26 Lost
She was a butterfly because she was too compassionate and trustworthy and couldn't stand to see others in pain - I didn't leave my room for three days.
27 Metal
It was strange, the way things felt through my giant, leather hands; I picked her limp wolf body off the cold, blood-slicked floor and hardly noticed the weight in my palms (I just couldn't wait to get out of there so we could both demorph and be alive and I could feel her with my human hands).
28 New
In the beginning it was refreshing and fun and I would cover Cassie in kisses - on her neck and face and lips - and after battles I couldn't keep my hands away from her.
29 Old
"When we are old and have beards - or I have a beard and you have white, white hair that you wear in a bun - and we sit in our rocking chairs on the porch in the summer time drinking lemonade, I hope we remember what it was like when we were young and could run forever in our bare feet and stay underwater for ten minutes and fight evil parasitic aliens that want to take over the world - because if we didn't, that would be really sad."
30 Peace
"Marco, I doubt we will ever forget what this is like - I think it would be impossible to forget what this is like - but if this war ever ends and we all go back to our normal life, I will pretend that I have forgotten all the horrible things I have seen Down There and when we get old I will drink lemonade with you and just talk about the feeling of flying through the air, okay?"
31 Poison
She is too trustworthy; David betrayed us all, but Cassie took it most to heart; that night we turned him into a rat forever, she couldn't stop crying.
32 Pretty
I wiped her tears for the millionth time; I still don't know how she made it through.
33 Rain
Cassie ran to the scoop and pulled me from sleep to dance with her in the rain; she twirled in circles, arms outstretched and face towards the black, starless sky smiling.
34 Regret
Her toes curled and legs wrapped around mine, Cassie kissed my shoulders and clavicle and lips and eyelids, but I just stared into the darkness around us.
35 Roses
I spent my allowance on seventeen roses that I hid in Cassie's locker - one for every time she saved my life.
36 Secret
I wanted to tell Jake, but Cassie just kissed me and said Jake needed her more now than ever and kissed me again.
37 Snakes
"You have got to be kidding - you shove pills into the mouths of eagles and foxes and wolves... and you are scared of snakes?"
38 Snow
When my father asked me if I'd ever like to see the snow, I could only think of the North Pole and the snow soaked with Cassie's dark red blood as she slowly faded from the wound in her stomach; I told my father I hated snow.
39 Solid
When everything was falling apart around me and I had no choice but to run, I spent a lot of nights with Cassie in her barn laying in the hay and looking up into the rafters.
40 Spring
"Marco," she whispered, close to me and smelling like spring and flowers and poetry, "you know I need you, right?"
41 Stable
"Shhh," she half-whispered half-laughed as she followed me into an empty horse stall (I made a face at the hay at our feet and she chided me with a stern look), "I don't want anyone to hear us."
42 Strange
"It is strange how accustom we've come to morphing and fighting and this war and everything it represents - what would we do without all the battles and the secrecy ... and what would I do without you?"
43 Summer
I thought about asking Cassie to come to the beach with me on Saturday afternoon so we could swim in the ocean and kiss on the sand and not think about saving the world for once - but we had a mission that morning and neither of us would be up for the beach when we got back.
44 Taboo
"Do you think Tobias is gay?" I asked her once, as we lazed on the sofa in the scoop watching infomercials - she just laughed at me and shook her head.
45 Ugly
Cassie could make any transformation look like a work of art; I asked her to teach me once but she just laughed.
46 War
She sobbed into my shoulder and my murmurs of comfort did nothing to ease her mind; we were at war and she couldn't take it.
47 Water
My mother was dead - dead dead dead - drown at the bottom of the ocean (kind of ironic, as that is how everyone thought she died) and Cassie wrapped me in her arms as I cried.
48 Welcome
She came to my apartment to apologize, but instead of letting her in, I stepped outside and stared down at the welcome mat; I couldn't look her in the eyes.
49 Winter
It didn't snow in California, but it was cold enough to turn your lips blue after swimming in the ocean in skintight clothing; Cassie kissed my tinged fingers with her blue lips and laughed.
50 Wood
I watched as Cassie ran her hands over the walls of her new home in the Hork-Bajir cabin; her eyes were sad and desperate and it was then I realized the constant fighting was close to destroying her.