Song Drabbles: Aki/Sherry

AN: Hey, all! Wrote this cause I had spare time. Warning for OOCness – it's really hard to make some of these songs work. Just a note – these songs take place in different parts of the timeline, and some are AUish, too. Also, in my headcanon, Carly's roommate is human!Asla Piscu. Fuck yeah hummingbirds! :D Feel free to suggest pairings or songs – these are from shuffle on my IPod! Song 8 is a reminder of why NEVER to let your brother pick sync songs, but velociraptor!Aki was so much fun that I might just have to write more of it.

There's a really wide variety of songs here! :D Feel free to suggest songs or pairings - although I mostly prefer femslash, I'll write slash and het, too 3

Song One: Part II: Tonight's The Night – Ludo (140 Words)

Sherry's death had been hard, to say the least. It wouldn't have been easy under any circumstance, and aboard Ylliaster's homeland, by her own hands…Aki could hardly take it. She spent nights brooding over it – I never even got to tell her how I felt! – and one night, it came to her – if Ylliaster could change the future, why can't I? Sherry hadn't been cautious – she hadn't been scared, but fear was what kept people safe – but that didn't mean things couldn't be changed. There were cards which could warp time, after all…and she was hardly short on money.

It took time before she was ready, but one night she stood there, on a cliff overlooking the raging sea, alone except for Black Rose, holding the card she had worked so hard to get – Time Wizard. Tonight was the night.

Song Two: Starstruck – Lady Gaga (169)

My dad would kill me if he saw me here, Aki thought to herself. She had no problems with visiting clubs. It wasn't like Firelily was too high on alcohol anyways, at least for a club in the district – it was a pretty strange place, very local. Mostly music and dancing, although she'd heard they had strippers some nights. She didn't care. Honestly, she just went to Firelily for the drinks. They didn't care that her fake ID was fake, it was a good enough fake, and they'd take it. Some nights, she would find herself dancing around with other girls, and she didn't really care that much. Not normally.

Normally, she didn't find herself pressed up against Sherry LeBlanc.

The woman looked so different when she wasn't working. She'd gotten a little more casual since Ylliaster, but she was still dead serious. But here, casual, dressed in a matter that was fun and almost flirty, long hair unkempt, she was amazing.

Aki had never been quite so starstruck.

Song Three: I Climb – Thousand Foot Krutch (194)

Everything seemed so serene about Aki. No one would've ever guessed that she cried herself to sleep over dumb teenage things, love and wanting and confusion all wrapped up into one nice little ball. Or at least, it seemed like no one ever would.

"Aki, are you alright?" Sherry asked. "You seem a bit glum."

Aki nodded unconvincingly. "I'm fine, Sher, really, I'm – mmmmph!" Sherry embraced Aki, pulling her close. She was surprisingly strong, and Aki wouldn't have been able to break free if she wanted to.

"Aki, it's okay, I'm here for you."

Please, please, just let her say she loves me. Everything would be alright she did, god, I'd give anything, I don't need to be anybody, just please –

"Aki, I do love you, but you might want to work on thinking inside your head." The redhead girl blushed and looked like she was about to speak when she found Sherry's lips upon her own.

Later that night, she sat, wondering, but no – she wouldn't deny it, she loved Sherry, and she wasn't afraid of that, she had made her bed and she was more than happy to go lay in it.

Song 4: Over and Over – Three Days Grace (163)

Sherry knew Aki didn't love her – the girl was so besotted with Yusei it was almost painful to behold – but she just couldn't quit her, couldn't quit wanting her. Nothing ever changed, just a monotony of wanting what she couldn't have – no matter how hard she tried not to, she just fell for the girl all over again.

It was hardly Aki's fault that she was so beautiful – hardly her fault that she had that soft, fiery, sexy red hair, that she had that uplifting, beautiful voice, that she had that wonderful figure and those bright golden eyes.

No, Sherry knew it would be best for her to move on, find some other cute girl – she had gotten the number of that one cute girl with the orange hair and the orange eyes and the orange dress just last night, when she'd been out drinking – but she couldn't. She'd rather waste her time on the one girl she knew she could never have.

Song 5: Falling Inside the Black – Skillet (137)

It was so easy to remember Sherry back before, kind and strong, a bastion of strength, every touch soft and beautiful and exactly what she had needed. But – no, Sherry was gone, a servant of Ylliaster, and she couldn't get her back. Everything was dark now. Yusei had tried to comfort her, and Jack, and even Carly, even Carly's goddamn freak of a roommate tried to pretend she understood what it was like.

None of them do! Aki told herself, not one of them understands this! One night, she hopped on her duel wheel, drove far away from anywhere, to the place where Sherry had disappeared, and stood there, shouting her name until her throat was hoarse and the sun sat on the edge of the horizons. But no – Sherry couldn't hear her screaming, couldn't hear Aki.

Song 6: Love Me Dead – Ludo (Black Rose!Aki and Ylliaster!Sherry) (150)

They were quite possibly the best matched couple in the world, and easily the worst matched as well. Sherry couldn't deny that Aki wasn't wonderful for her when she was so overworked by Jose and Paradox and Z-ONE and whoever else decided to shove their stupid menial work on her, couldn't deny that the girl knew just how to comfort her and hold her, that the girl wasn't sexy and beautiful and graceful and every other wonderful thing, yet…

She was so aggressive, so needy, so fakey, wearing her down to bones in bed (at times it almost felt like she was quite literally, when she brought out one of her vined, disgusting duel monsters to "help"). Loving her dead. She was awful, and yet Sherry loved her; she was hideous, with her strange mask and her obsession with flame and her disgusting nature, but she was so, so sexy.

Song 7: Waking Up In Vegas – Katy Perry (155)

"Okay, what the fuck happened last night?" Sherry didn't swear often, but she sure knew how to. "Where are we? I don't remember buying a motel room…"

"Yeah, cause I totally have any clue what's going. I woke up hung over and in bed with you, so don't you get –"

"What?"

"You're wearing my dress, by the way." Aki sighed. "I think when we were out gambling with Carly and her roommate, we started drinking, and, well…I don't know. I'll call Carly. We never should have agreed to come with on this trip."

Carly's roommate picked up – immediately obvious because of her creepy deep voice. "Oh, hey! You two got really drunk, and you had us buy you a motel room. We're a floor down from you, room 213. Oh, and I'm pretty sure you two fucked!"

Aki hung up, not wanting to hear any more.

"Well, I've got good news, and bad news…"

Song 8: Carnivores from the Cretaceous Period (Velociraptor!Aki and Sherry)(174)

The alpha was a lovely beast, with sharp fangs and a fast gate and beautiful feathers, perfect for hiding her from the nastier beasts dwelling near their hunting grounds. Aki had to appreciate it – and hunt all the harder for it. It would soon be time for breeding, and when that came along, she most desperately wanted to be the strongest candidate, a mix of emotions and thoughts and instincts.

They'd been having their kills scavenged off of by a troublemaking Troodon recently, and it hardly took her long to dispatch the poor creature, bringing it to Sherry, a glint in her eyes.

Please love me.

Some time later, when it was time for clutching, there was some general befuddlement about the lack of a clutch from the alpha and her precious mate. But no one was going to try to mess with the creature – no one in their right mind would, not with their bond, and not with how capable it proved itself.

It was a simple life. It was a good life.

Song 9: Lithium – Evanescence (Ylliaster!Sherry)(154)

Sherry didn't really love Aki, but when she was drunk enough, they could pretend.

It wasn't healthy for either of them, no, but Aki was too besotted to care at first, and by the time everything began to fall apart, she was too committed to let go. Sherry's devotion to Ylliaster made it even worse, with her always gone, working on some disgusting project to maim and harm others. Aki kept trying to let Sherry go, to find someone better for her – Carly was pretty enough, and there were plenty of other girls out there – but she couldn't. She was too afraid to be alone, to not keep feeling love and affection, fake as it was.

It was a terrifyingly broken relationship, and she could hardly hold onto it, hardly hold on to herself, her own needs. She just wanted to stay in love with Sherry, no matter the cost. No matter the brokenness.

Song 10: Check Yes Juliet – We The Kings (201)

Aki sat in her bedroom, brushing her hair quietly. As rich as her father was, she hated some of it – the arranged marriage, especially. All she wanted was Sherry, Sherry LeBlanc, and it wasn't like she was even from a poor family! No, she suspected her father just objected to her love for another girl, and –

The sound of a rock hitting startled her out of her thoughts. Below her window stood Sherry, leaning against her D-Wheel, another rock in her hands.

"Aki, I'm not going anywhere till you get your ass out here." She grinned. "And put on your riding shoes. We're ditching this town! I've got a connection in a little town far away from here, he's a hell of a weird kid, but I worked with him and he's one of the most reliable people I've met."

Aki nodded. She changed into decent clothes before rushing out the door to meet her lover – her lover, in defiance of her parents. They couldn't change her mind or her heart!

"Come on, Aki. We've got a long, long ways to go and not too long. But as long as we have each other, and our decks, there's no stopping us!"