Fiction. Sapphire & Steel. Silver/Steel
Two more drabbles and a ficlet - my Silver/Steel muse has been busy over the last few days.
TITLE: Elements
AUTHOR: Ashleigh Anpilova
FANDOM: Sapphire & Steel
PAIRING: Silver/Steel
GENRE: Slash
SUB-GENRE: Established Relationship
RATING: G
SUMMARY: What are they?
DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters, nor am I making any money from them. I merely borrow them from time to time.
They were not celestial.
But nor were they human.
They did not come from the skies.
But nor did they come from earth.
They were not ethereal.
But nor were they solid.
They were not born.
But nor were they built.
They did not die.
But nor did they live forever.
They were not really all elements.
It was just an easy term.
They did not just love.
They were beyond love.
They were not just friends.
They were family.
Steel was more than all of the others put together.
But without Silver he was far less than them all.
TITLE: In My Head
AUTHOR: Ashleigh Anpilova
FANDOM: Sapphire & Steel
PAIRING: Silver/Steel
GENRE: Slash
SUB-GENRE: Established Relationship
RATING: G
SUMMARY: Steel remembers what it was like following his intimacy with Silver.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters, nor am I making any money from them. I merely borrow them from time to time.
When I first joined with Silver, when I allowed his mind to link with mine, it was like being joined with a multitude.
His thoughts were chaotic, like quicksilver. They jumped from one idea to another to another and back again.
It was like having a group in my head, all uttering different things simultaneously.
I was almost tempted to change my mind; to take time back; let him think it’d never happened.
Until I remembered another kind of chorus; the one that sounded that first time.
And I knew, I could not return to the emptiness in my head.
TITLE: No Longer In Awe
AUTHOR: Ashleigh Anpilova
FANDOM: Sapphire & Steel
PAIRING: Silver/Steel
GENRE: Slash
SUB-GENRE: Established Relationship
RATING: PG
SUMMARY: Silver used to be in awe of Steel. Then he fell in love with him.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters, nor am I making any money from them. I merely borrow them from time to time.
At first I didn’t like him.
Oh, I respected him. We all did. It was impossible not to.
It is even fair to say I was in awe of him. And if I’m honest I was also a little afraid of him.
But I didn’t like him.
He was too cold. Too distant. Too detached. Too uncaring. Too steely.
I took great pleasure in trying to irritate him. In trying to break through his barriers.
I never thought I’d succeed. Not really. After all, why I should manage to touch the man inside the steely covering when his partner, Sapphire, had failed to do so?
And then one day, something changed.
I realised I was no longer in awe of him; I was in love with him.
I don’t know how it happened or when it happened.
I don’t know when my fear of him vanished and I stopped looking at him merely as someone to irritate, but rather as someone to try to seduce.
I never expected him to love me, not really. Not at all. To be perfectly honest I wasn’t certain he was capable of such an emotion; it seemed beyond what he was.
Nonetheless that belief didn’t stop me from trying; well I wouldn’t be me if it had.
I found myself trying to get him to notice me more and more. And I succeeded. Albeit at first he would just be exasperated with me. And then I noticed that his reactions were changing, he seemed to be more mellow, not that mellow is a word I’d really use to describe Steel.
So I took a chance one day.
I didn’t say anything; I didn’t want to give him the chance to dismiss it. Instead, I just took him into my arms and kissed him. I knew I was risking a lot and not just because of his great strength. But I decided it was worth it.
And it was.
Because after a second or two or three of what was clear shock and confusion, he kissed me back. Hesitantly, tentatively, as though it was something rare for him, but kiss me he did.
That was more than five earth years ago, and since then I have learnt so much more about the man I share my life with. Things that no one other than he and ‘They’ know.
And knowing what I do, knowing what he is, knowing what he is capable of, knowing him, makes me respect him and love him all the more.
TITLE: Elements
AUTHOR: Ashleigh Anpilova
FANDOM: Sapphire & Steel
PAIRING: Silver/Steel
GENRE: Slash
SUB-GENRE: Established Relationship
RATING: G
SUMMARY: What are they?
DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters, nor am I making any money from them. I merely borrow them from time to time.
They were not celestial.
But nor were they human.
They did not come from the skies.
But nor did they come from earth.
They were not ethereal.
But nor were they solid.
They were not born.
But nor were they built.
They did not die.
But nor did they live forever.
They were not really all elements.
It was just an easy term.
They did not just love.
They were beyond love.
They were not just friends.
They were family.
Steel was more than all of the others put together.
But without Silver he was far less than them all.
TITLE: In My Head
AUTHOR: Ashleigh Anpilova
FANDOM: Sapphire & Steel
PAIRING: Silver/Steel
GENRE: Slash
SUB-GENRE: Established Relationship
RATING: G
SUMMARY: Steel remembers what it was like following his intimacy with Silver.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters, nor am I making any money from them. I merely borrow them from time to time.
When I first joined with Silver, when I allowed his mind to link with mine, it was like being joined with a multitude.
His thoughts were chaotic, like quicksilver. They jumped from one idea to another to another and back again.
It was like having a group in my head, all uttering different things simultaneously.
I was almost tempted to change my mind; to take time back; let him think it’d never happened.
Until I remembered another kind of chorus; the one that sounded that first time.
And I knew, I could not return to the emptiness in my head.
TITLE: No Longer In Awe
AUTHOR: Ashleigh Anpilova
FANDOM: Sapphire & Steel
PAIRING: Silver/Steel
GENRE: Slash
SUB-GENRE: Established Relationship
RATING: PG
SUMMARY: Silver used to be in awe of Steel. Then he fell in love with him.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters, nor am I making any money from them. I merely borrow them from time to time.
At first I didn’t like him.
Oh, I respected him. We all did. It was impossible not to.
It is even fair to say I was in awe of him. And if I’m honest I was also a little afraid of him.
But I didn’t like him.
He was too cold. Too distant. Too detached. Too uncaring. Too steely.
I took great pleasure in trying to irritate him. In trying to break through his barriers.
I never thought I’d succeed. Not really. After all, why I should manage to touch the man inside the steely covering when his partner, Sapphire, had failed to do so?
And then one day, something changed.
I realised I was no longer in awe of him; I was in love with him.
I don’t know how it happened or when it happened.
I don’t know when my fear of him vanished and I stopped looking at him merely as someone to irritate, but rather as someone to try to seduce.
I never expected him to love me, not really. Not at all. To be perfectly honest I wasn’t certain he was capable of such an emotion; it seemed beyond what he was.
Nonetheless that belief didn’t stop me from trying; well I wouldn’t be me if it had.
I found myself trying to get him to notice me more and more. And I succeeded. Albeit at first he would just be exasperated with me. And then I noticed that his reactions were changing, he seemed to be more mellow, not that mellow is a word I’d really use to describe Steel.
So I took a chance one day.
I didn’t say anything; I didn’t want to give him the chance to dismiss it. Instead, I just took him into my arms and kissed him. I knew I was risking a lot and not just because of his great strength. But I decided it was worth it.
And it was.
Because after a second or two or three of what was clear shock and confusion, he kissed me back. Hesitantly, tentatively, as though it was something rare for him, but kiss me he did.
That was more than five earth years ago, and since then I have learnt so much more about the man I share my life with. Things that no one other than he and ‘They’ know.
And knowing what I do, knowing what he is, knowing what he is capable of, knowing him, makes me respect him and love him all the more.