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dethoratsAnyways, enough whining out of me. Jumping on the Luffy/Usopp Water 7 angst song-inspired drabble bandwagon, although I won't inflict this on everyone via opy100. I like this song because I feel it works from both POVs, which I like since I find both boys to be guilty rather than one or the other.
Title: Drifted So Far
Rating: G
Pairing: Usopp and Luffy
Word Count: 300
Merry was dark, dim and full of empty shadows just like he was. They creaked together, the two of them, pain laced through their bones as they lay in their uneasy rest. Bandages and a promise held him together, kept him alive, and even though his heart was broken the rest of him would mend. The boards underneath his fingertips were smooth from countless passes of feet and he could sense, down below him, beneath the surface of the waves where not everyone could go, Merry’s own damaged body. He couldn’t fix what was hurt beyond repair. He couldn’t fix much of anything anymore. But he would try; he owed his precious brave craft that much. Just…not quite yet. The hammer and nails and boards, patches he’d use for mending, would wait until tomorrow. Until then, until then he would rest and do his best to forget and pretend the floor beneath his bruised cheek wasn’t damp.
It wasn’t his seat, was nothing like the white painted wood that cradled him so snugly. There were no waves, no gentle rocking and quiet sussuration to tempt him to sleep. Only rooftops and harsh coal smoke and a night that stretched achingly long ahead of him. He could feel his nakama behind him, watching and waiting, and he kept them away. The absenses were all the sharper for their presence and he couldn’t wrap his head around all that had so suddenly gone very, very wrong. A hole was open inside of him, over his heart where the dial had caught him and left a bruise already fading from his rubber flesh, and it seemed all he could do was fill it with choked back tears and memories unexpectedly turned bitter. He’d move on tomorrow but tonight he was allowed to hurt.
Sonata Arctica's Shamandalie
In good old times, remember my friend
Moon was so bright and so close to us, sometimes
We were still blind and deaf, what a bliss
Painting the world of our own, for our own eyes, now
[CHORUS:]
"Can we ever have what we had then?
Friendship unbreakable
Love means nothing to me
Without blinking an eye
I'd fade, if so needed,
All those moments with you
If I had you beside me"
One cloudy day we both lost the game
We drifted so far and away
Nothing is quite as cruel as a child
Sometimes we break the unbreakable, sometimes
[CHORUS:]
"And we'll never have what we had then
Friendship unbroken
Love means nothing to me
Without blinking an eye
I'd fade, if so needed,
All those moments with you
If I had you beside me now"
I was unable to cope with what you said
Sometimes we need to be cruel to be kind
Child that I was, could not see the reason
Feelings I had were but sham and a lie
I have never forgotten your smile
Your eyes, oh, Shamandalie
Time went by, many memories died
I'm writing this down to ease my pain
You saw us always clearer than me
How we were never meant to be
Love denied meant the friendship would die
Now I have seen the light
These memories make me cry
[CHORUS:]
"Can I ever have what I had then?
Friendship unbroken
Love means nothing to me
Without blinking an eye
I'd fade, if so needed,
All those moments with you
See the world with my wide open eyes
[CHORUS:]
Friendship got broken
There's no other for me
Like the one of my childhood days
Can you forgive me?
Love got better off me,
On that one day back in old times"
Title: Drifted So Far
Rating: G
Pairing: Usopp and Luffy
Word Count: 300
Merry was dark, dim and full of empty shadows just like he was. They creaked together, the two of them, pain laced through their bones as they lay in their uneasy rest. Bandages and a promise held him together, kept him alive, and even though his heart was broken the rest of him would mend. The boards underneath his fingertips were smooth from countless passes of feet and he could sense, down below him, beneath the surface of the waves where not everyone could go, Merry’s own damaged body. He couldn’t fix what was hurt beyond repair. He couldn’t fix much of anything anymore. But he would try; he owed his precious brave craft that much. Just…not quite yet. The hammer and nails and boards, patches he’d use for mending, would wait until tomorrow. Until then, until then he would rest and do his best to forget and pretend the floor beneath his bruised cheek wasn’t damp.
It wasn’t his seat, was nothing like the white painted wood that cradled him so snugly. There were no waves, no gentle rocking and quiet sussuration to tempt him to sleep. Only rooftops and harsh coal smoke and a night that stretched achingly long ahead of him. He could feel his nakama behind him, watching and waiting, and he kept them away. The absenses were all the sharper for their presence and he couldn’t wrap his head around all that had so suddenly gone very, very wrong. A hole was open inside of him, over his heart where the dial had caught him and left a bruise already fading from his rubber flesh, and it seemed all he could do was fill it with choked back tears and memories unexpectedly turned bitter. He’d move on tomorrow but tonight he was allowed to hurt.
Sonata Arctica's Shamandalie
In good old times, remember my friend
Moon was so bright and so close to us, sometimes
We were still blind and deaf, what a bliss
Painting the world of our own, for our own eyes, now
[CHORUS:]
"Can we ever have what we had then?
Friendship unbreakable
Love means nothing to me
Without blinking an eye
I'd fade, if so needed,
All those moments with you
If I had you beside me"
One cloudy day we both lost the game
We drifted so far and away
Nothing is quite as cruel as a child
Sometimes we break the unbreakable, sometimes
[CHORUS:]
"And we'll never have what we had then
Friendship unbroken
Love means nothing to me
Without blinking an eye
I'd fade, if so needed,
All those moments with you
If I had you beside me now"
I was unable to cope with what you said
Sometimes we need to be cruel to be kind
Child that I was, could not see the reason
Feelings I had were but sham and a lie
I have never forgotten your smile
Your eyes, oh, Shamandalie
Time went by, many memories died
I'm writing this down to ease my pain
You saw us always clearer than me
How we were never meant to be
Love denied meant the friendship would die
Now I have seen the light
These memories make me cry
[CHORUS:]
"Can I ever have what I had then?
Friendship unbroken
Love means nothing to me
Without blinking an eye
I'd fade, if so needed,
All those moments with you
See the world with my wide open eyes
[CHORUS:]
Friendship got broken
There's no other for me
Like the one of my childhood days
Can you forgive me?
Love got better off me,
On that one day back in old times"
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Date: 2006-10-02 10:49 am (UTC)Anyways, I liked it and have to resist the need to keyboardsmash.
adfskgjsfkgjkg ....failed
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Date: 2006-10-03 10:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-02 03:45 pm (UTC)(By the way, I'm still glad you liked the drabble I wrote you! X3)
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Date: 2006-10-02 06:26 pm (UTC)Much love for this line: He’d move on tomorrow but tonight he was allowed to hurt. T__T b
And yeah totally know what you mean about the productive part lol. Urrgh. Hoe stuff goes better for you!
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Date: 2006-10-03 10:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-02 07:07 pm (UTC)ps. I can't believe I didn't think to use Sonata Arctica; I fail! This is so perfect! ([Its entirely your fault that that was stuck in my head for the last hour, btw.] But wait, you'll laugh if I manage to get another out of the medium I've got running in my head right now. *laughs* Oh its wrong, but oh so perfect...)
You have failed your moddly duties- I sentence you to write hot-hot manlovings in penance; get to work, woman! ^_~
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Date: 2006-10-03 10:32 am (UTC)As for hot-hot manlovings, I will try! Mmm, ZoSopp pr0n.