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storypaint) wrote2008-07-18 08:15 am
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Heaven (Rachel/Cassie)
Comm: International Day of Femslash 7/19/08
Length: 332
Fandom: Animorphs
Title: Heaven
Author: rhap-chan
Pairing/Characters: Rachel/Cassie
Rating: G, but this is afterlife!fic
Disclaimer: Animorphs is the property of K.A. Applegate. 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: "Funny to see you here," Rachel said, her eyes bright and her voice carrying easily over the sand dune. She emerged into sight and came over to stand beside Cassie. She wasn't wearing any shoes and her toenails were painted green.
Rachel had been dead for eight years before Cassie realized that she was in love-- had been in love-- with her.
Cassie had been dead for ten minutes. She had been sitting on a sand dune near a soft beach when she opened her eyes-- which was unusual, since she'd been in traffic a moment earlier. She hadn't even heard the accident.
"Funny to see you here," Rachel said, her eyes bright and her voice carrying easily over the sand dune. She emerged into sight and came over to stand beside Cassie. She wasn't wearing any shoes and her toenails were painted green.
Cassie sprang up from the ground and grabbed Rachel, hugging and crying and then even kissing. Rachel's lips were soft and warm and she smelled just like she used to smell.
Cassie pulled back out of the kiss and was gratified to see Rachel smiling back. She didn't let her friend go for a long moment. Then she realized something.
"I'm dead, aren't I?"
She had a flash of loss-- of Ronnie and the Hork-Bajir and the life she'd only began to live. She was only in her twenties. She was dead.
Rachel just shrugged. "I don't think we're dead," she said.
But I remember you dying, Cassie thought. "But you're not wearing any shoes," she pointed out instead. Rachel loved shoes. To be barefoot, even on the beach, was practically a crime. Rachel looked down at her feet and smiled.
"You can't morph shoes, Cassie. You know that."
"But--"
Rachel reached out and pressed a finger to Cassie's lips.
"I missed you," she said.
She took Cassie's hand. Cassie looked down at her own bare feet and wiggled her toes in the sand. Maybe she'd let Rachel paint her toenails green.
"I missed you too," Cassie said. She let her worries slip away. And any place where one could manage to do that was Heaven, dead or not.
They walked away, hand in hand, over the dune.
Length: 332
Fandom: Animorphs
Title: Heaven
Author: rhap-chan
Pairing/Characters: Rachel/Cassie
Rating: G, but this is afterlife!fic
Disclaimer: Animorphs is the property of K.A. Applegate. 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: "Funny to see you here," Rachel said, her eyes bright and her voice carrying easily over the sand dune. She emerged into sight and came over to stand beside Cassie. She wasn't wearing any shoes and her toenails were painted green.
Rachel had been dead for eight years before Cassie realized that she was in love-- had been in love-- with her.
Cassie had been dead for ten minutes. She had been sitting on a sand dune near a soft beach when she opened her eyes-- which was unusual, since she'd been in traffic a moment earlier. She hadn't even heard the accident.
"Funny to see you here," Rachel said, her eyes bright and her voice carrying easily over the sand dune. She emerged into sight and came over to stand beside Cassie. She wasn't wearing any shoes and her toenails were painted green.
Cassie sprang up from the ground and grabbed Rachel, hugging and crying and then even kissing. Rachel's lips were soft and warm and she smelled just like she used to smell.
Cassie pulled back out of the kiss and was gratified to see Rachel smiling back. She didn't let her friend go for a long moment. Then she realized something.
"I'm dead, aren't I?"
She had a flash of loss-- of Ronnie and the Hork-Bajir and the life she'd only began to live. She was only in her twenties. She was dead.
Rachel just shrugged. "I don't think we're dead," she said.
But I remember you dying, Cassie thought. "But you're not wearing any shoes," she pointed out instead. Rachel loved shoes. To be barefoot, even on the beach, was practically a crime. Rachel looked down at her feet and smiled.
"You can't morph shoes, Cassie. You know that."
"But--"
Rachel reached out and pressed a finger to Cassie's lips.
"I missed you," she said.
She took Cassie's hand. Cassie looked down at her own bare feet and wiggled her toes in the sand. Maybe she'd let Rachel paint her toenails green.
"I missed you too," Cassie said. She let her worries slip away. And any place where one could manage to do that was Heaven, dead or not.
They walked away, hand in hand, over the dune.