FIC: Learning Experience Cassie/Rachel G
Title: Learning Experience
Author: moriath
Fandom: Animorphs
Pairing: Cassie/Rachel
Rating: G
Prompt: Learning
Word Count: 344
Summary: Cassie has learned a lot from Rachel. That doesn't mean she knows everything.
Notes: My full table can be seen here. If you can't see it, comment here and I'll add you to the friends-lock :-) Oh, and fic-wise, there's spoilers for book 54 (which came out 5 years ago...but we're a picky fandom. I guess).
Being friends with Rachel was always a learning experience.
Learning how to smile and nod when she claimed that by spending you were saving at a sale. Learning how to trade shopping trips for help in the barn.
Learning how to love her even as the war destroyed her.
Cassie had learned about the ticklish spot behind her knee when they were kids at a slumber party, and continued to use it to her advantage during the few times they had to just be girls. Despite the awkward positions it sometimes left them in when a boy came and found them.
She'd learned how to let go when Rachel started to spend her free time with Tobias - just as Cassie had begun to spend her time with Jake. Learning to do what was right, putting the slumber party kissing lessons to good use.
The learning curve was steep for Cassie, but they learned together how to fight and how to kill.
Cassie learned how refreshing soft, human skin felt under her hands after spending hours in the armor of an insect, or the fur of a wolf. She didn't care whose skin it was, she just needed the affirmation that someone was there.
That she was there.
They learned together what idiots boys could be, guardedly sharing stories in the valley while everyone else was asleep. Cassie wasn't sure if Rachel truly trusted her - or even liked her. She wasn't even sure if she really liked Rachel that much anymore.
But there was an unmistakable allure to her golden hair and icy eyes, her dedication to her cause, even if she took it too far.
And then....
She wasn't there. Jake had sent her to die. The last Cassie saw of her was an image on a screen, tearfully saying she loved...Tobias. Of course.
Cassie had learned a lot being Rachel's friend. That didn't mean she didn't have anything left.
Author: moriath
Fandom: Animorphs
Pairing: Cassie/Rachel
Rating: G
Prompt: Learning
Word Count: 344
Summary: Cassie has learned a lot from Rachel. That doesn't mean she knows everything.
Notes: My full table can be seen here. If you can't see it, comment here and I'll add you to the friends-lock :-) Oh, and fic-wise, there's spoilers for book 54 (which came out 5 years ago...but we're a picky fandom. I guess).
Being friends with Rachel was always a learning experience.
Learning how to smile and nod when she claimed that by spending you were saving at a sale. Learning how to trade shopping trips for help in the barn.
Learning how to love her even as the war destroyed her.
Cassie had learned about the ticklish spot behind her knee when they were kids at a slumber party, and continued to use it to her advantage during the few times they had to just be girls. Despite the awkward positions it sometimes left them in when a boy came and found them.
She'd learned how to let go when Rachel started to spend her free time with Tobias - just as Cassie had begun to spend her time with Jake. Learning to do what was right, putting the slumber party kissing lessons to good use.
The learning curve was steep for Cassie, but they learned together how to fight and how to kill.
Cassie learned how refreshing soft, human skin felt under her hands after spending hours in the armor of an insect, or the fur of a wolf. She didn't care whose skin it was, she just needed the affirmation that someone was there.
That she was there.
They learned together what idiots boys could be, guardedly sharing stories in the valley while everyone else was asleep. Cassie wasn't sure if Rachel truly trusted her - or even liked her. She wasn't even sure if she really liked Rachel that much anymore.
But there was an unmistakable allure to her golden hair and icy eyes, her dedication to her cause, even if she took it too far.
And then....
She wasn't there. Jake had sent her to die. The last Cassie saw of her was an image on a screen, tearfully saying she loved...Tobias. Of course.
Cassie had learned a lot being Rachel's friend. That didn't mean she didn't have anything left.