[Fanmix] Animorphs -- Rachel/Tobias -- BirdBoyWarriorPrincess
Medium: Books
Fandom: Animorphs
Subject: Tobias/Rachel
Title: BirdBoyWarriorPrincess
Warnings: Spoilers up to and including #54, The Beginning
Rachel was a girl who could, on occasion, become a bird of prey. I was a hawk who could, on occasion, become human. Several big steps past being Montagues and Capulets. --#33, The Illusion
“Toocan” -Kathryn Williams
I had a reddish tail of long straight feathers. The rest of my back was a mottled dark brown. I had big shoulders that looked kind of hunched, like I was a football lineman waiting for the snap. My head was streamlined. My brown eyes were fierce as I stared at the deadly weapon of my beak.
I turned my head forward, looking away from my reflection. < I don’t know what’s happening to me, Rachel. >
“What do you mean, Tobias?”
I wish I could have smiled. She looked so worried. I wish I could have smiled, just a little, to make her feel better.
< Rachel. I think I’m losing myself. > --#3, The Encounter
A bird flew into the window
Saw himself and got confused.
Saw himself and fell in love
Flew straight into the glass
Nothing can move me at this minute
Change my life to fit myself in it
Passionate life is all I want
Please let me wake up one day
And find myself found
And find myself
Found.
“Keeps Gettin’ Better” -Christina Aguilera
There was the smell of danger in the air, and that meant action. I like action. I like doing things instead of just talking about them. --#7, The Stranger
In the blink of an eye
In the speed of the light
I'll hold the universe up
And make your planets collide.
When I strap on my boots
And I slip on my suit
You see the vixen in me
Becomes an angel for you
Some days I'm a super bitch
Up to my old tricks
But it won't last forever
Next day I'm your super girl
Out to save the world
And it keeps getting better
“Birthday” -The Bird and the Bee
That night I went to Rachel’s room. She was asleep. She was ticked off when I woke her up. But she rolled out of bed and put on a robe and told me she’d never get any sleep with some idiot bird coming in and out at all hours.
The she showed me the cake. She lit a candle and I blew it out by flapping my wing. Neither of us sang “Happy Birthday.” But she said it.
“Happy Birthday, Tobias.” --#23, The Pretender
Who knows your birthday?
Who knows your number?
Who knows your colors?
Who knows your hands?
Who knows the sum, the sum of all your parts?
Who knows your limit?
Who knows your highest?
Who knows your lowest?
Who knows your end?
Who knows the bottom, the bottom of your heart?
Hold on, hold on
Keep holding onto me
I will love you from the bottom
No one holds you better than me
Hold on, hold on
Doing the best we can
I will love you on your birthday
I will love you better than them
“Big Strong Girl” -Deb Talan
“Rachel and Tobias,” Jake said, letting the other straws fall. He looked from Tobias to me, suspicious.
I shot Tobias a furious stare. He hated the water! He could never entirely subdue his hawk instincts, instincts that told him water was definitely not his environment. It scared him. But he’d cheated to pick the short straw for himself.
My fault. I’d insisted on going. Tobias wasn’t going to let me go down there without him to watch my back.
Later, I would be touched by that gesture. But right then I was just mad: Tobias was risking his own life because I was jerk enough to make him cheat for me. --#27, The Exposed
Don't push so hard against the world, no, no
You can't do it all alone, and if you could
Would you really want to?
Even though you're a big strong girl
Come on, come on, lay it down
The best made plans
Come on, come on, lay it down
Are your open hands
“You Sexy Thing” --Stereophonics
“Rachel!” Tobias yelped. And a millisecond later he had spun around, grabbed her, and kissed her. Then he held her back at arm’s length. “You’re dead!” --Megamorphs #3: Elfangor’s Secret
I believe in miracles
Where are you from you sexy thing (sexy thing you)
I believe in miracles
Since you came along you sexy thing
Where did you come from angel
How did you know I'll be the one
Did you know you're everything I prayed for
Did you know every night and day for
Everyday your love has satisfaction
Now you're lying next to me giving it to me
“Pretty Eyes” -Jason Reeves
I looked up. Tobias. Half-human, half-predator. Our eyes met. “Thanks, Cassie,” I whispered. “But…Tobias?”
< Yeah. Let’s go, Rachel, > he said. < The two of you and the two of me. Let’s go. > --#32, The Separation
As we were driving
You turned head around and looked right at me
You couldn’t see the road and it was scaring me
How beautiful you are when you get crazy
I have never felt so weak
So maybe I could disappear without you
Maybe I would fall into the sky
I’m in heaven orbiting around you
And your pretty eyes
Your pretty eyes.
“The Little Things” -Colbie Calliat
She paused to consider her next words. She was embarrassed by what she was about to say. Fighting to get past her embarrassment. “But you’ve got to realize that there’s more. I’m not just a warrior,” she said, her eyes glittering so close to mine. “I’m a girl. I’m trying not to let myself be dragged off the cliff, away from all normalcy, into this insane life we live. I don’t like what it does to me, Tobias, and I need to be a girl again. I need a little bit of normalcy, okay? Not a lot, but some.” --#33, The Illusion
The little things, you do to me are
Taking me over, I wanna show you
Everything inside of me
Like a nervous heart that, is crazy beating
My feet are stuck here, against the pavement
I wanna break free, I wanna make it
Closer to your eyes, get your attention
Before you pass me by
Back up, back up, take another chance,
Don't you mess up, mess up, I don't wanna lose you
Wake up, wake up, this ain't just a thing that you
Give up, give up
Don't you say that I'd be
Better off, better off, sleeping by myself and wondering
If I'm better off better off, without you boy
“Clockwatching” -Jason Mraz
I’d never seen Rachel so emotional. Unless, of course, the emotion was an act. Unless she was stalling me just to eat up the minutes, to trap me, to-
“All the things we’re supposed live while we’re in school, Tobias, you know, dances like this, nights out at the movies, walks on the beach. That stuff is passing us by. I want those things. We deserve them. And if you were human…”
I cut her off, repeating her words out loud. “Yeah. If I were human. If.” --#33, The Illusion
Let's keep talking,
Anything to stop clockwatching.
Lately we're running out of time, aren't we?
Crazy for running all the time
M-m-m-m-maybe.
Let's forget we're running out of time.
“At the Beach” -The Avett Brothers
I smiled. “Let’s fly.”
“Yeah,” she agreed. “Right after I do this.”
She kissed me.
“Okay, now let’s fly,” she said and laughed her wild, wicked, self-mocking Rachel laugh.
And in a short time, we were coasting on a thermal, high over the beach. Over the distant hills. Over the city. Over everything. The memory of the mission was far behind. The close call with death forgotten. For awhile. --#33, The Illusion
I know that you're smiling, baby,
I don't even need to see your face
Sunset at the shoreline, we are laughing, breaking up,
Just like the waves
Are you feeling, feeling, feeling like I'm feeling
Like I'm floating, floating, up above that big blue ocean
Sand beneath our feet, big blue sky above our heads,
No need to keep stressing from our everyday life on our minds
We have got to leave all that behind
“Sky is Falling” -Lifehouse
”You never really know how some things will turn out,” I said. A twig blew across the surface of a rock, swept along by the wind. I reached out to catch it. Rachel moved to stop it, too. Our hands collided gently. I took her hand. The twig blew past us, and fell into a crack.
“Yeah,” she answered, smiling. “There’s no point in worrying about what you might have done. The past is the past, Tobias. Let it go.” --#43, The Test
You leave me hanging on
I need to catch my breath
I've got you and I've got nothing left
Don't leave me all alone down here
With myself and all of my fear
I'm alive but tell me am I free
I've got eyes but tell me can I see
The sky is falling and no one knows
We shouldn't be hard to believe
Shouldn't be this difficult to breathe
The sky is falling and no one knows
“My Best Friend” -Wheezer
Along with Cassie, Tobias is my best friend in the world. Also kind of my boyfriend. The kind with feathers.
It’s a long story. But because of an inscrutably powerful being known as the Ellimist, Tobias can morph his human self. Even choose to be that human forever, give up the morphing. The fight. Life as a bird of prey.
But he doesn’t choose that option.
Because, just like me, Tobias doesn’t want to go back to where he started. --#48, The Return
You are such a blessing and I won’t be messing
with the one thing that brings light to all my darkness
You're my best friend
and I love you, and I love you
Yes I do
“Anything But Ordinary” -Avril Lavigne
”You know, Tobias,” she said. “We have very weird dates.” --#49, The Diversion
To walk within the lines
Would make my life so boring
I want to know that I
Have been to the extreme
So knock me off my feet
Come on now give it to me
Anything to make me feel alive
Is it enough to love?
Is it enough to breathe?
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please.
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please.
“Vanilla Twilight” -Owl City
He had morphed. He was his human self once more. He’d done that for me. And because he was crying. I understood. Humans cry, hawks don’t.
“I love you,” I said to the screen.
And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning.
I tried to smile. For him. --#54, The Beginning
When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again
And I'll forget the world that I knew
But I swear I won't forget you
Oh, if my voice could reach
Back through the past
I'd whisper in your ear
Oh darling, I wish you were here
“A Bad Dream” -Keane
Tobias was silent throughout. If he even heard the questions, he didn’t show it. And then, as Marco was telling yet another amusing anecdote, Tobias spread his wings, caught an updraft, and flew away. --#54, The Beginning
Why do I have to fly
Over every town up and down the line?
I'll die in the clouds above
And you that I defend, I do not love
I wake up, it's a bad dream
No one on my side
I was fighting
But I just feel too tired
To be fighting
Guess I'm not the fighting kind
Where will I meet my fate?
Baby, I'm a man, I was born to hate
And when will I meet my end?
In a better time you could be my friend
“A Lifetime” -Better Than Ezra
Tobias closed his talons around the urn’s small handle. He glared fiercely at Rachel’s mom. She was crying, had been all along. She sobbed and nodded her head, giving her permission.
Then Tobias looked at me. I said, “Yes, Tobias. She would want it.”
I don’t know where he found the strength to lift that urn, but he did. He flew away, low at first, then, catching a thermal, he bore the urn away into the sky. --#54, The Beginning
We arrived late to the wake,
Stole the urn while they looked away,
And drove to the beach
'Cause I knew you'd want it that way.
And you were standing on the hood of the car
Singing out loud when the sun came up.
And I know I wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like I thought she would.
And that REM song was playing in my mind.
And three and a half minutes
Felt like a lifetime
Rachel would be beautiful in the middle of mudslides and hailstorms. On a sweet, sunny day, she made my heart ache. --#23, The Pretender
I have strong feelings for Tobias. The kind you can’t help. The kind that seem inevitable. Like they were always there, even before you knew the person. --#37, The Weakness
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Fandom: Animorphs
Subject: Tobias/Rachel
Title: BirdBoyWarriorPrincess
Warnings: Spoilers up to and including #54, The Beginning
Rachel was a girl who could, on occasion, become a bird of prey. I was a hawk who could, on occasion, become human. Several big steps past being Montagues and Capulets. --#33, The Illusion
“Toocan” -Kathryn Williams
I had a reddish tail of long straight feathers. The rest of my back was a mottled dark brown. I had big shoulders that looked kind of hunched, like I was a football lineman waiting for the snap. My head was streamlined. My brown eyes were fierce as I stared at the deadly weapon of my beak.
I turned my head forward, looking away from my reflection. < I don’t know what’s happening to me, Rachel. >
“What do you mean, Tobias?”
I wish I could have smiled. She looked so worried. I wish I could have smiled, just a little, to make her feel better.
< Rachel. I think I’m losing myself. > --#3, The Encounter
A bird flew into the window
Saw himself and got confused.
Saw himself and fell in love
Flew straight into the glass
Nothing can move me at this minute
Change my life to fit myself in it
Passionate life is all I want
Please let me wake up one day
And find myself found
And find myself
Found.
“Keeps Gettin’ Better” -Christina Aguilera
There was the smell of danger in the air, and that meant action. I like action. I like doing things instead of just talking about them. --#7, The Stranger
In the blink of an eye
In the speed of the light
I'll hold the universe up
And make your planets collide.
When I strap on my boots
And I slip on my suit
You see the vixen in me
Becomes an angel for you
Some days I'm a super bitch
Up to my old tricks
But it won't last forever
Next day I'm your super girl
Out to save the world
And it keeps getting better
“Birthday” -The Bird and the Bee
That night I went to Rachel’s room. She was asleep. She was ticked off when I woke her up. But she rolled out of bed and put on a robe and told me she’d never get any sleep with some idiot bird coming in and out at all hours.
The she showed me the cake. She lit a candle and I blew it out by flapping my wing. Neither of us sang “Happy Birthday.” But she said it.
“Happy Birthday, Tobias.” --#23, The Pretender
Who knows your birthday?
Who knows your number?
Who knows your colors?
Who knows your hands?
Who knows the sum, the sum of all your parts?
Who knows your limit?
Who knows your highest?
Who knows your lowest?
Who knows your end?
Who knows the bottom, the bottom of your heart?
Hold on, hold on
Keep holding onto me
I will love you from the bottom
No one holds you better than me
Hold on, hold on
Doing the best we can
I will love you on your birthday
I will love you better than them
“Big Strong Girl” -Deb Talan
“Rachel and Tobias,” Jake said, letting the other straws fall. He looked from Tobias to me, suspicious.
I shot Tobias a furious stare. He hated the water! He could never entirely subdue his hawk instincts, instincts that told him water was definitely not his environment. It scared him. But he’d cheated to pick the short straw for himself.
My fault. I’d insisted on going. Tobias wasn’t going to let me go down there without him to watch my back.
Later, I would be touched by that gesture. But right then I was just mad: Tobias was risking his own life because I was jerk enough to make him cheat for me. --#27, The Exposed
Don't push so hard against the world, no, no
You can't do it all alone, and if you could
Would you really want to?
Even though you're a big strong girl
Come on, come on, lay it down
The best made plans
Come on, come on, lay it down
Are your open hands
“You Sexy Thing” --Stereophonics
“Rachel!” Tobias yelped. And a millisecond later he had spun around, grabbed her, and kissed her. Then he held her back at arm’s length. “You’re dead!” --Megamorphs #3: Elfangor’s Secret
I believe in miracles
Where are you from you sexy thing (sexy thing you)
I believe in miracles
Since you came along you sexy thing
Where did you come from angel
How did you know I'll be the one
Did you know you're everything I prayed for
Did you know every night and day for
Everyday your love has satisfaction
Now you're lying next to me giving it to me
“Pretty Eyes” -Jason Reeves
I looked up. Tobias. Half-human, half-predator. Our eyes met. “Thanks, Cassie,” I whispered. “But…Tobias?”
< Yeah. Let’s go, Rachel, > he said. < The two of you and the two of me. Let’s go. > --#32, The Separation
As we were driving
You turned head around and looked right at me
You couldn’t see the road and it was scaring me
How beautiful you are when you get crazy
I have never felt so weak
So maybe I could disappear without you
Maybe I would fall into the sky
I’m in heaven orbiting around you
And your pretty eyes
Your pretty eyes.
“The Little Things” -Colbie Calliat
She paused to consider her next words. She was embarrassed by what she was about to say. Fighting to get past her embarrassment. “But you’ve got to realize that there’s more. I’m not just a warrior,” she said, her eyes glittering so close to mine. “I’m a girl. I’m trying not to let myself be dragged off the cliff, away from all normalcy, into this insane life we live. I don’t like what it does to me, Tobias, and I need to be a girl again. I need a little bit of normalcy, okay? Not a lot, but some.” --#33, The Illusion
The little things, you do to me are
Taking me over, I wanna show you
Everything inside of me
Like a nervous heart that, is crazy beating
My feet are stuck here, against the pavement
I wanna break free, I wanna make it
Closer to your eyes, get your attention
Before you pass me by
Back up, back up, take another chance,
Don't you mess up, mess up, I don't wanna lose you
Wake up, wake up, this ain't just a thing that you
Give up, give up
Don't you say that I'd be
Better off, better off, sleeping by myself and wondering
If I'm better off better off, without you boy
“Clockwatching” -Jason Mraz
I’d never seen Rachel so emotional. Unless, of course, the emotion was an act. Unless she was stalling me just to eat up the minutes, to trap me, to-
“All the things we’re supposed live while we’re in school, Tobias, you know, dances like this, nights out at the movies, walks on the beach. That stuff is passing us by. I want those things. We deserve them. And if you were human…”
I cut her off, repeating her words out loud. “Yeah. If I were human. If.” --#33, The Illusion
Let's keep talking,
Anything to stop clockwatching.
Lately we're running out of time, aren't we?
Crazy for running all the time
M-m-m-m-maybe.
Let's forget we're running out of time.
“At the Beach” -The Avett Brothers
I smiled. “Let’s fly.”
“Yeah,” she agreed. “Right after I do this.”
She kissed me.
“Okay, now let’s fly,” she said and laughed her wild, wicked, self-mocking Rachel laugh.
And in a short time, we were coasting on a thermal, high over the beach. Over the distant hills. Over the city. Over everything. The memory of the mission was far behind. The close call with death forgotten. For awhile. --#33, The Illusion
I know that you're smiling, baby,
I don't even need to see your face
Sunset at the shoreline, we are laughing, breaking up,
Just like the waves
Are you feeling, feeling, feeling like I'm feeling
Like I'm floating, floating, up above that big blue ocean
Sand beneath our feet, big blue sky above our heads,
No need to keep stressing from our everyday life on our minds
We have got to leave all that behind
“Sky is Falling” -Lifehouse
”You never really know how some things will turn out,” I said. A twig blew across the surface of a rock, swept along by the wind. I reached out to catch it. Rachel moved to stop it, too. Our hands collided gently. I took her hand. The twig blew past us, and fell into a crack.
“Yeah,” she answered, smiling. “There’s no point in worrying about what you might have done. The past is the past, Tobias. Let it go.” --#43, The Test
You leave me hanging on
I need to catch my breath
I've got you and I've got nothing left
Don't leave me all alone down here
With myself and all of my fear
I'm alive but tell me am I free
I've got eyes but tell me can I see
The sky is falling and no one knows
We shouldn't be hard to believe
Shouldn't be this difficult to breathe
The sky is falling and no one knows
“My Best Friend” -Wheezer
Along with Cassie, Tobias is my best friend in the world. Also kind of my boyfriend. The kind with feathers.
It’s a long story. But because of an inscrutably powerful being known as the Ellimist, Tobias can morph his human self. Even choose to be that human forever, give up the morphing. The fight. Life as a bird of prey.
But he doesn’t choose that option.
Because, just like me, Tobias doesn’t want to go back to where he started. --#48, The Return
You are such a blessing and I won’t be messing
with the one thing that brings light to all my darkness
You're my best friend
and I love you, and I love you
Yes I do
“Anything But Ordinary” -Avril Lavigne
”You know, Tobias,” she said. “We have very weird dates.” --#49, The Diversion
To walk within the lines
Would make my life so boring
I want to know that I
Have been to the extreme
So knock me off my feet
Come on now give it to me
Anything to make me feel alive
Is it enough to love?
Is it enough to breathe?
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please.
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please.
“Vanilla Twilight” -Owl City
He had morphed. He was his human self once more. He’d done that for me. And because he was crying. I understood. Humans cry, hawks don’t.
“I love you,” I said to the screen.
And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning.
I tried to smile. For him. --#54, The Beginning
When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again
And I'll forget the world that I knew
But I swear I won't forget you
Oh, if my voice could reach
Back through the past
I'd whisper in your ear
Oh darling, I wish you were here
“A Bad Dream” -Keane
Tobias was silent throughout. If he even heard the questions, he didn’t show it. And then, as Marco was telling yet another amusing anecdote, Tobias spread his wings, caught an updraft, and flew away. --#54, The Beginning
Why do I have to fly
Over every town up and down the line?
I'll die in the clouds above
And you that I defend, I do not love
I wake up, it's a bad dream
No one on my side
I was fighting
But I just feel too tired
To be fighting
Guess I'm not the fighting kind
Where will I meet my fate?
Baby, I'm a man, I was born to hate
And when will I meet my end?
In a better time you could be my friend
“A Lifetime” -Better Than Ezra
Tobias closed his talons around the urn’s small handle. He glared fiercely at Rachel’s mom. She was crying, had been all along. She sobbed and nodded her head, giving her permission.
Then Tobias looked at me. I said, “Yes, Tobias. She would want it.”
I don’t know where he found the strength to lift that urn, but he did. He flew away, low at first, then, catching a thermal, he bore the urn away into the sky. --#54, The Beginning
We arrived late to the wake,
Stole the urn while they looked away,
And drove to the beach
'Cause I knew you'd want it that way.
And you were standing on the hood of the car
Singing out loud when the sun came up.
And I know I wasn't right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn't mind,
Like I thought she would.
And that REM song was playing in my mind.
And three and a half minutes
Felt like a lifetime
Rachel would be beautiful in the middle of mudslides and hailstorms. On a sweet, sunny day, she made my heart ache. --#23, The Pretender
I have strong feelings for Tobias. The kind you can’t help. The kind that seem inevitable. Like they were always there, even before you knew the person. --#37, The Weakness
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