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Chaos and Calamity ([personal profile] rootsofthestories) wrote in [community profile] rainbowfic2014-11-18 03:52 am

Halloween Orange, ghost white

Name: Sebastian
Title: losing and leaving and finding again
Story: None
Colors: Halloween Orange: I can’t promise to obey you, I can’t swear I won’t betray you.
GHost White: Kelpie
Supplies: None
Rating: PG
Warnings: A slightly questionable relationship? I feel like? Yeah. I don't know.
Word count; 389
Notes: So, this is kind of me playing around with a pair of characters we've had for ages. Or one version of them. There are many versions of them running through a number of versions but this is a combination we talked about a while ago and yes. Things. Ho hum, ho hum.

They kiss by the seaside, mouths tasting of blood and saltwater. They pull each other into the waves, laughing and teasing one another as they fall into the ocean's embrace.

They love fiercely and with nothing but devotion but they also know that neither of them will go against their natures.

The selkie will always have the need to leave in his blood and the kelpie will always bring death in his wake.

It's what they do, who they are, and they love each other, but they know that fighting against their natures is a losing battle.

~

"I have to go."

"I know."

"I'll be back."

"I know."

They kiss, hard and fierce, teeth and tongues warring with one another for dominion. Their hands push back shreds of clothing and they fall into the ocean again, an old pattern they always return to.

~

The kelpie makes the selkie bleed before he leaves and the selkie shows him ho to be gentle. They leave with marks upon the other that no one else has been able to make stick, yet they both know this is not over.

The old dialogue happens again and again. Coming back, promises, devotionals to each other. They dance around familiar phrases like preforms punting on a show for the hundredth time.

They know their roles and they know they'll put on this song and dance again soon enough.

~

"I can't promise I wont' come after you.

The selkie is about to lave, to let the water take him far away, when the kelpie says it

He blinks, uncertain of what to say,. It's not a part of the old script.

"I'll come back," he tries, attempting to get them on track again.

"Or I'll bring you back."

"I don't....What am I supposed to say?" The selkie sounds scared, unsure and like he's craving direction, like he needs someone to tell him what to do.

"Just say that you'll let me bring you back," eh kelpie supplies. "Say that when I find you, I can bring you home again."

The selkie swallows, nodding. "Okay."

"Okay."

The selkie lets the water take him then, his body shifting into seal for and vanishing into the water.

The kelpie watches, knowing he will soon enough venture into the waves to track down the one who maters to him.
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[personal profile] kay_brooke 2014-11-25 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I love how lyrical this is. There's a sense of longing that really justifies the ending and the changing of the status quo.
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[personal profile] bookblather 2015-01-09 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, how lovely this is! Lyrical and slightly spooky.