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breakingdreamsTitle: dawn goes down to day
Pairing: Auron/Rikku
Wordcount: 448
Summary: He forgets her age, sometimes.
Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy X in any shape or form.
Notes: So, I sat down to write this because I claimed the prompt Auron/Rikku - Age Differences over atareyougame and it was already ridiculously late, and somehow my Rikku feels ended up spilling all over the place. But that's okay, because there's no such thing as too much Rikku.
The title comes from a line in Robert Frost's poem Nothing Gold Can Stay. I thought it fitting.
dawn goes down to day
His eyes are drawn to her.
How could they not be? Rikku is all that is worth saving in this damaged world. She is young and brash and golden, selfish and loving and brave. She brings laughter when there is no joy and sees the world with wide-open eyes. She is beautiful, intelligent, unpredictable, and utterly, utterly alive.
He forgets her age, sometimes. When he watches her upgrade their weaponry late at night by the light of the campfire, her eyes are shaded and intent, her forehead wrinkled in concentration as her small hands move deftly along the curves and angles of their various weapons, neatly slotting in resistances to poison or paralysis or whatever it is they've decided that they need. At these times, she looks so unlike the laughing girl who slugs Tidus in the shoulder and cracks jokes with Wakka that sometimes he almost reaches over to cup her cheek in his hand, to smooth the wrinkles from her forehead and kiss her into distraction.
But then he watches the way she leaps into the air with a cheer after they defeat a fiend, every single time, the muscles ripping in her long, lithe legs, or sees her draping daisy-chains around Tidus neck just to see Yuna's laugh, and he remembers: she is the cousin of Braska's daughter.
Younger than Yuna, even. She is young enough to be his own daughter, had he been so inclined at the time.
He has to remember, because she won't. Because sometimes he catches her looking at him with those wide-open eyes with sometime he thinks is desire and refuses to call love. Because she is selfish, overwhelmingly so. When she loves, she loves with her entire heart, and she is far too young to understand that not everything she loves will stay simply because she loves them.
It's what makes her the perfect choice for Yuna's guardian— because Rikku loves her far too much to ever give up on saving her.
It's what makes staying away so difficult.
But she is young and brash and intelligent and beautiful and brave, and all the reasons he loves her are all the reasons he cannot let himself have her. She burns bright with life and hope, and if there is any future to be built after Sin, it is she who will build it. He will not ruin that.
So when she pushes he will turn away, and when she asks he will tell her that she's too young, because it's simpler than explaining that he's also too dead.
Rikku is far too young and alive, and Auron is old enough to understand that he cannot be the one who destroys her.
Pairing: Auron/Rikku
Wordcount: 448
Summary: He forgets her age, sometimes.
Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy X in any shape or form.
Notes: So, I sat down to write this because I claimed the prompt Auron/Rikku - Age Differences over at
areyougame and it was already ridiculously late, and somehow my Rikku feels ended up spilling all over the place. But that's okay, because there's no such thing as too much Rikku.The title comes from a line in Robert Frost's poem Nothing Gold Can Stay. I thought it fitting.
His eyes are drawn to her.
How could they not be? Rikku is all that is worth saving in this damaged world. She is young and brash and golden, selfish and loving and brave. She brings laughter when there is no joy and sees the world with wide-open eyes. She is beautiful, intelligent, unpredictable, and utterly, utterly alive.
He forgets her age, sometimes. When he watches her upgrade their weaponry late at night by the light of the campfire, her eyes are shaded and intent, her forehead wrinkled in concentration as her small hands move deftly along the curves and angles of their various weapons, neatly slotting in resistances to poison or paralysis or whatever it is they've decided that they need. At these times, she looks so unlike the laughing girl who slugs Tidus in the shoulder and cracks jokes with Wakka that sometimes he almost reaches over to cup her cheek in his hand, to smooth the wrinkles from her forehead and kiss her into distraction.
But then he watches the way she leaps into the air with a cheer after they defeat a fiend, every single time, the muscles ripping in her long, lithe legs, or sees her draping daisy-chains around Tidus neck just to see Yuna's laugh, and he remembers: she is the cousin of Braska's daughter.
Younger than Yuna, even. She is young enough to be his own daughter, had he been so inclined at the time.
He has to remember, because she won't. Because sometimes he catches her looking at him with those wide-open eyes with sometime he thinks is desire and refuses to call love. Because she is selfish, overwhelmingly so. When she loves, she loves with her entire heart, and she is far too young to understand that not everything she loves will stay simply because she loves them.
It's what makes her the perfect choice for Yuna's guardian— because Rikku loves her far too much to ever give up on saving her.
It's what makes staying away so difficult.
But she is young and brash and intelligent and beautiful and brave, and all the reasons he loves her are all the reasons he cannot let himself have her. She burns bright with life and hope, and if there is any future to be built after Sin, it is she who will build it. He will not ruin that.
So when she pushes he will turn away, and when she asks he will tell her that she's too young, because it's simpler than explaining that he's also too dead.
Rikku is far too young and alive, and Auron is old enough to understand that he cannot be the one who destroys her.
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