This is a shuffle meme: I put my iPod on shuffle and take the first ten songs I get, and then write ficlets to them. This is the Gippal/Baralai (or in some cases, Baralai/Gippal) one. I also have an Auron/Rikku (and Rikku/Auron) one.
I
Won't Say I'm in Love
Disney's Hercules
(sung by Megara/Susan Egan)
You're way off-base, I won't say it
Get off my case, I won't say it
At least, out loud I won't say I'm in love.
This is crazy. What am I doing? What was I thinking? He couldn't remember except that there hadn't been any other option in his mind. It had been a long day, and he was tired and sore and it had seemed perfectly natural that his first thought had been to go straight to Baralai's quarters where the bath was bigger than that of the guest room and the bed was softer, and, well, there was Baralai.
Oh, this is a bad idea. Because nobody was supposed to know about them – bad for politics and it might give people the wrong idea. Once the general population got over the shock, it could bring on the same kind of joy and romanticism as the would-be union between Yuna and Seymour. Two of the world's greatest leaders uniting, joining in love and power to bring the world together –
Except Gippal wasn't really the marrying kind. He was more for the casual stuff – because as he had been taught so many times, when you got soft and melty for somebody, they tended to spook and leave you in the dust. Baralai wasn't the gooey kind anyway, and Gippal was okay with a fuck-and-fly kind of thing. Love had never been in the cards for him.
Baralai opened the door in nothing but his pajama pants, his hair tousled from sleep and his eyes lighting up as they focused, and something bright and warm blossomed in Gippal's chest at the sight of him.
"Gippal," he said, and he sounded genuinely pleased, and Gippal wished to any god that might be listening that he could deny it a little longer.