Moments
A collection of Briar/Sandry moments from Will of the Empress. Pretty much the "what didn't happen between them and what should have happened" parts.
Sorry if it's a little OOC.
Sandry watched Briar as he caressed the empress's disfigured shakkan, entranced in his movements. She shook herself out of it just in time to hear him say, "Nobody ever asks the tree, do they?"
Shaking her head, she replied (in a sisterly way, she told herself), "If only you found a human being you loved enough to talk that way to."
He looked at her with those expressive green eyes. They turned considerably darker as he paused, and said hesitantly, "There... is. But she'll never love me that way."
Sandry was shocked. Briar, her Briar, loved someone else. Oh, I knew he had his flings, she thought sadly. But I thought they were silly! With that thought, she turned and walked slowly to the door, but not before Briar caught a tear shimmering at the corner of her cornflower blue eyes.
"G'night Briar," she said abruptly.
"Sandy, wait!" he called urgently. Lakik's teeth, now what have I done? he thought angrily. She was supposed to get the hint!
When Sandry made no sign of stopping, he began running, and in three great steps, caught up to her.
"Just leave me alone, Briar," she sniffed, hastily wiping away tears. "I..." But she never got to finish her sentence. Because in the spur of the moment, Briar caught her full on the lips.
When they finally broke away, Sandry was shocked. "But... I thought you liked someone..."
"Sandry, don't you get it? Sometimes you can be so slow, even though you stick you neb in everything!" Briar said, though not unkindly. "That someone is you."
And he kissed her again.
Too much fluff? Maybe. I'm rereading this as I'm editing, and it's a little too saccharine even for me. Oh well, I'm not going to change it. :)