Fell In Love Without You
(Motion City Soundtrack)
every aching wound will cauterize and bruise
in memory of what we used to call in love
She smiled, small and cute and coy, cheeks dimpling as she returned his quiet good night with one of her own. She tried very hard not to giggle in delight at his shyness. He was so quiet and polite and reserved, Piotr, so it shocked her to the core when he leaned in to press a quick, chaste kiss to her cheek. She flushed a delicate pink, and he drew back, squeezed the hand that she'd been holding onto all that time and finally let go. He bade her a good evening again, but he might as well have said nothing for she barely heard him.
Later, after she'd dashed into her room and shut the door behind her and raised a surprised hand to her still-warm cheek, she would wonder at the unassuming gentleness. So different from Lance's smouldering, barely tempered passion. Lance's kisses had left her breathless, Lance's kisses were strong and sure and firm. His arms would wind around her, never hurting, but always with a faint hint of possessiveness - like if he didn't hold onto her enough, she would flit away. And she held on just at tightly, hardly believing that he was there. It'd been a wild ride while it lasted. She'd felt nothing like it. She thought they'd last forever.
She blinked away her thoughts, chased the memories away. She didn't regret what she had with Lance. She never would. It hadn't been easy, but where would she be now, if not for what she had with him? When they came to realize that they wanted different things, they broke it off, a mutual agreement. She'd just started her senior year of high school, then.
And then Piotr happened. Big and strong but gentle and quiet. Polite and reserved. Kind and compassionate and always had a listening ear. If Kitty wasn't careful, she thought she might really fall in love with him. If she thought about it some more, she figured that she was okay with that. Piotr was wonderful in so many ways.
And yet the thought of falling in love with someone not Lance seemed to shake her to the core.
... Yep, I've decided to do a song challenge. (Put iTunes on shuffle, write drabbles inspired by the resulting playlist.) Basically a writing exercise to keep me from getting rusty + practice writing characters who aren't Storm/Wolvie/Chuck/Hank.
some notes:
1 You'll be seeing your favorite characters in different permutations here. I don't have a ship bias (maybe a little for logan/ororo, I can't help it) so yes, you may see some kurtty or piotr/tabitha or lance/pietro or whatever in the future. No ship is safe.
2 Not everything here will be shippy! ... well a lot of it will be, but.. not.. all? Familyfic and genfic are my favorites.
3 I have a bit of everything in my playlist. Don't judge!