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when the sorrows are too heavy to bear let me take you above the clouds where everything is lighter. – phantom/mercedes.
She'll never admit to it, the Queen of the Elves with her haughty looks and golden hair, but once she broke down and cried in front of him, the tremendous weight of the seemingly-doomed world's fate a far too heavy load on her delicate shoulders.
She's really a child, isn't she?
So he's not the best person. So he's really a person that could possibly use this as blackmail material. So she may have made a mistake in slipping in front of him, of all people.
. . .
He's not that bad of a person, though.
That time under the moon he wraps her up in his cloak, scoops up her dual weapons – careful to not damage them – and takes her on a long flying trip on his ship, sitting at the mast holding her small left hand the entire time.
"I hear," he says after pointing out the stars and the moon, "that everything is lighter on the moon."
She doesn't answer him, but she's still got a tight grip on his gloved hand and her golden head is still leaning against his chest. Her tapering ears most likely hear his heartbeat, finding rhythm and rhyme even in him, an erratic, unpredictable person.
"I can't take you there, but try to pretend that being higher up in the sky above the clouds makes everything lighter."
All the sorrows. All the frustration, the confusion, the harsh lead weight of 'duty' and 'honour'. In the sky-born ship of the Lumiere, high above the clouds and birds, every deadening weight of all the sadness will be reduced.
He of all people knows just what a cheap trick this is. That in the end all it really does is provide an escape from reality that can never last with illusions of flying in the never-ending skies, the clouds below their wings.
But sometimes even heroes need a break.
"You're always welcome," he says just after he helps her back onto the ground. She's recovered now and her posture is queenly once more, her bow guns gripped in delicate but strong fingers.
She'll never bend her pride enough to ask him.
It's okay, he's a thief. He has his ways of stealing even the Queen of the Elves for a little 'joyride' every now and then.
The next time they go on the gravity-reducing flight where he takes the liberty of dragging her onto his ship she calls him names and treats him to a royal complaint about his manners and behaviour (well pardon his roguishness, but he is a thief, even if he's the gentleman thief) but she's got a lightened smile on her face.
That makes it worth it all.
Inspired by Hatsune Miku's songs, 'One-Sixths' and 'Two-Faced Lovers'. Because I absolutely love this pairing.
For the Unusual Pairings Project. Details on profile.