bulletproof (i wish i was) - challenge #039

[suicix]

Title: bulletproof (i wish i was)
Fandom: World Wrestling Entertainment
Pairing: Sasha Banks/Alicia Fox
Rating: T
Prompt: #039 - question
Word Count: 555
Summary: After the title changes hands, Sasha wonders why Alicia's remaining loyal to the Bellas. The answer she gets isn't anything like she expected - and she doesn't like how it makes her feel.

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Final Fantasy VI: A Moment of Failure (Celes/Terra)

[larathia]

Fandom: Final Fantasy VI
Pairing: Celes/Terra
Rating: G
Prompt: #039 - question
Word Count: 200

Terra found Celes in the dark before dawn, watching the stars slowly fading in the east.

"Locke's being...strange, in the inn?" Terra opened with, carefully. She wasn't sure what the right word for alternately brooding and stomping was.

"He's aware that he was wrong and that being wrong has consequences," said Celes distantly, without turning around.

"Thinking you would betray everyone because Kefka said you did," Terra nodded. She didn't need to comment on the stupidity of the mistake. Like Celes - and honestly, even moreso - she knew Kefka's ways.

Celes nodded, a quick curt gesture. "Only doubted me 'for a moment', he said. As if it were an inconsequential thing. As if it did not give Kefka the advantage at a crucial point. I betrayed the Empire. So of course it is possible I would also betray the Returners."

Terra shook her head. "No. It's not. When you make up your mind it stays made up." There was a hint in her voice both of sorrow and respect. Terra tended to doubt everything. They'd both been right, and wrong, at different times as a result.

Celes turned then, a hint of a relieved smile playing about her lips.

Forget-me-not (Sappho #14)

[rosage]

Title: Forget-me-not
Fandom: Fire Emblem (Archanea)
Pairing: Palla/Minerva
Rating: G
Prompt: Sappho #14 -- but me you have forgotten
Word Count: 967
Summary: She's scarcely heard from Minerva of late.

( When Palla touches down, Maria is weeding the garden and Minerva is nowhere to be seen. )