Contrast (Eriol/Tomoyo) *repost*

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Comm: 100_leitmotifs, 5trueloves
Words: 222
Title: Contrast
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Characters: Hiiragizawa Eriol/Daidouji Tomoyo
Theme: 81. black and white; 24. white; black; color
Leitmotif: feather
Warnings/Ratings: G
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Excerpt: Eriol simply looked past the perfect girl to the real one, the girl who had tantrums when she was three and her mother wouldn't come home to play with her, the girl who watched her heart break because the love she carried was hopeless and wrong.

They all saw Tomoyo in black and white, or rather, mostly white. She was beautiful, her feathery black hair always shiny and well-kept; and friendly, a woman truly kind to all she met. She was a wonderful seamstress, loyal to a fault, and beloved of children and animals. She even had two fanclubs (initially one, but a rift had formed during an argument about whether she was more beautiful or smart).

Eriol looked deeper. There were flaws.

Looking deeply was a habit he'd picked up from Clow, a man who tended to see the past, present, and future all at once, in potentia. Once he had looked past the frightening facade of an imposing witch, and saw her kindness. Eriol simply looked past the perfect girl to the real one, the girl who had tantrums when she was three and her mother wouldn't come home to play with her, the girl who watched her heart break because the love she carried was hopeless and wrong. He saw how lonely she was at night, and how she sometimes stayed up until dawn watching her tapes of Sakura. He saw her angry and sad and jealous. He saw Tomoyo better than anyone else could.

What he saw didn't bother him.

After all, they all saw Eriol in black and white as well-- mostly black.