A/N: Yay, more drabbles. Hopefully, I can actually write decently now. Here's our first one, 2-centric, but focusing on 7 and 1. Hopefully, I didn't get characterization horribly off. Can be interpreted as Foe Yay if you'd like, father-daughter, or just two enemies forced to live in close proximity.

A is for Arrogance

It's so funny to watch them go after each other in the way that they do. Now, for example, Seven is getting her head bitten off for being found sneaking back into the cathedral after another excursion outside. It's so silly, really. Five and I have told her time and time again about the secret passageways we've found, and how she should use them to enter and exit instead. I'm not entirely sure if she's just being stubborn, or always forgets to use them. In any case, One has found her again, and this time, she's not going to get away as easily.

"Do you have any idea how much danger you are putting us in? You aren't exactly easy to miss, and if the beast found you heading back here-"

"If I got found by the beast, wouldn't it go after me before it came here? Face it, you aren't being rational here!" I put a hand to my mouth. As always, Eight is standing by One, glaring down at Seven, and Five, Six, and the Twins shrink away from the shouting. I, on the other hand, have to fight laughter at Seven's tone, all righteous anger, so defensive.

One bristles, the brings his face closer to hers. She draws back from him as he hisses, "Are you really egotistical enough to consider that your own importance exceeds that of everyone else here combined? Do you realize that sometimes, we must put the group as a whole before ourselves?"

I snort at this. Hypocrite. Seven seems to agree with me, because she asks, "And what about you? Do you ever think that if you got off that throne of yours, you might be able to do some good for the rest of us, rather than hiding in wait and punishing us when we don't share your cowardice?"

He brings up a hand to strike at her, but she grabs at his arm and twists it downwards. Her eyes inches from his, she says in a low voice that positively drips with hatred, "Don't ever try that on me again." She let's go of him and storms away.

As he stares after her, the look on his face sits somewhere between fury and confusion.

"I cannot stand him," she snarls, pacing around the room that she shares with the twins. I had come in her to borrow a book for blueprints, but it seems she had other ideas. "He's so self-absorbed, so bossy, so arrogant..."

I can't help but smirk slightly as I watch her. "Has it ever struck you how similar the two of you are?" She stops pacing and stares at me, incredulous.

"What are you talking about?" she asks, sounding revolted.

I shrug. "Well, think about it. You're both dominant and proud, and don't want to let yourselves by controlled by anyone else. You'd rather go out into the emptiness and run free, while he'd rather sit around here and keep everyone together, but you both do it for the same reason."

She tilts her head slightly to the side, giving me an odd look. "And that reason is?"

"You both want us to stay safe. You prefer to go on the offensive and take out the source of the problem. He prefers to play it out defensively, and keep it from taking us out. This, combined with those proud, domineering traits that I already mentioned, make it logical that you'd hate each other so much," I say, matter-of-factly.

She continues to look at me for a moment, then shakes her head and continues pacing. "I'm not sure if having a spine makes us parallels to each other."

Now I have to laugh. "There you go again, always so defensive about yourself. See, it's when you act like this that I see him in you."

"Oh, God," she sighs, exasperated, sitting down next to me on the empty matchbox that doubles as a bench. "You cannot be serious, Two. Please, tell me that you aren't."

I stand up, and walk towards the bookshelf on the other side of the room to search for my blueprints. "Believe me, I am. Besides, they say that opposites attract. So, be grateful that you aren't more different."

I glanced over my shoulder to see her throw me a disgusted look.