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Memory (Aisha/Melfina)
Comm: International Day of Femslash 7/19/08
Prompt: Aisha x Melfina. Who turned out the lights?
Length: 275
Fandom: Outlaw Star
Title: Memory
Author: rhap-chan
Pairing/Characters: Aisha & Melfina; slight femslash
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Outlaw Star does not belong to me. All fanfiction archived here is a derivative of canon material that is not my property. I do not profit from these writings. The opinions and actions expressed in these stories are not necessarily the views and beliefs of the original author or me.
Excerpt: Aisha leaned straight against the glass, her nails swirling patterns into the fogged surface. She told Melfina about her parents and her sister.
To know the full truth about Aisha Clanclan of the Ctarl-Ctarl, one had to know that there were parts of her that she hid, tucking the pain and loss away, covering it with her excitable personality. Gene never wondered-- he was a simple man. Jim wasn't old enough to even think about it. And Suzuka was a well of secrets herself-- she had no desire to keep someone else's.
Melfina was different. On the Outlaw Star, everything revolved around her, and not just ship functions. A kitten could tell how attached the boys were to her, how much she united her motley crew.
Some nights when everyone slept, Aisha crept down to the control room. She needed no light-- Melfina glowed, very face serene. She slept, or whatever it was a being like her did.
Aisha leaned straight against the glass, her nails swirling patterns into the fogged surface. She told Melfina about her parents and her sister. She told her about her wife, a woman whose ears had been tufted with the softest fur, a woman whose ashes spun in a gentle arc in the dark of space. Melfina listened, Aisha liked to think. Even in shut-down mode, didn't she? She only visited when she couldn't stand to have it all in her head at once, when the pain nearly spilled into her claws and her words and she thought she might die.
Every night that Aisha visited, she slinked away again before dawn to wipe her tears away and to sleep, exhausted, in a cold bunk. It was only after Aisha had left that Melfina would open her eyes.
And she cried too.
Prompt: Aisha x Melfina. Who turned out the lights?
Length: 275
Fandom: Outlaw Star
Title: Memory
Author: rhap-chan
Pairing/Characters: Aisha & Melfina; slight femslash
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Outlaw Star does not belong to me. All fanfiction archived here is a derivative of canon material that is not my property. I do not profit from these writings. The opinions and actions expressed in these stories are not necessarily the views and beliefs of the original author or me.
Excerpt: Aisha leaned straight against the glass, her nails swirling patterns into the fogged surface. She told Melfina about her parents and her sister.
To know the full truth about Aisha Clanclan of the Ctarl-Ctarl, one had to know that there were parts of her that she hid, tucking the pain and loss away, covering it with her excitable personality. Gene never wondered-- he was a simple man. Jim wasn't old enough to even think about it. And Suzuka was a well of secrets herself-- she had no desire to keep someone else's.
Melfina was different. On the Outlaw Star, everything revolved around her, and not just ship functions. A kitten could tell how attached the boys were to her, how much she united her motley crew.
Some nights when everyone slept, Aisha crept down to the control room. She needed no light-- Melfina glowed, very face serene. She slept, or whatever it was a being like her did.
Aisha leaned straight against the glass, her nails swirling patterns into the fogged surface. She told Melfina about her parents and her sister. She told her about her wife, a woman whose ears had been tufted with the softest fur, a woman whose ashes spun in a gentle arc in the dark of space. Melfina listened, Aisha liked to think. Even in shut-down mode, didn't she? She only visited when she couldn't stand to have it all in her head at once, when the pain nearly spilled into her claws and her words and she thought she might die.
Every night that Aisha visited, she slinked away again before dawn to wipe her tears away and to sleep, exhausted, in a cold bunk. It was only after Aisha had left that Melfina would open her eyes.
And she cried too.