Miniature Slayers

"Miniature Slayers" is a collection of short stories, one shots, and scenes from the Slayers world written by me. I get too many ideas for things that should happen in fanfiction, and I just can't put all of them into the actual stories I end up writing, and there's no way I can create a whole new story based on one scene I can't fit anywhere. Thus I decided to give those scenes their own home here, so people can still enjoy them.

Miniature 1
Title: "How You See Me"
Characters: Lina and Gourry
Pairing: LinaxGourry
POV: Gourry
Timeline: Takes place two years after Try. A couple months after Lina and Gourry have split ways with the others after a tiresome battle with Zelas and other mazoku over Lina's power to control LoN.

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"I want to ask you something…" I looked over at her from the tree I was leaning against. Her knees were brought up to her chest, head resting on top, one arm wrapped around them and the other reaching out poking the stick she had in hand at the crackling fire. I couldn't read her eyes, they had a blankness to them as she gazed into the orange flames.

"What is it?" I asked. She lowered her head deeper into her knees.
"After everything, how do you see me?" I sat up a little turning my body towards her.
"What do you mean?" I asked completely confused. "You mean…" She peeked her left eye over her knee to glance at me. "Even if you do contain her within you, you're still Lina right? It's not like I'm going to stop liking you or being with you because of that." She raised her head, looking at me in slight surprise, which a second later melted away to a warm smile.

"Thank you Gourry, but that's not really what I meant."
"Then-" I started.

"Nevermind." She smiled still. I continued to look at her, her smile seemed somewhat unlike her now that I got a better look. It had an aura of being lost that came with it, almost like a sadness but not quite. The soft glow from the fire lit her face and her eyes…eyes that I had seen so much. In that moment her features seemed different to me than what I had remembered picturing her like this whole time. Her face was more narrow, eyes smaller, her nose was bigger and longer and her lips were fuller… the face of a woman.
"You know…" I finally spoke. "Do you think you could ever give up this life?" She looked back up at me.

"One day, I suppose I'll probably return home and start my own business or something, but as far as living a completely normal life goes, I'm not sure how possible that is for me…what about you Gourry?" Her question caught me off guard. "We've been traveling together for around five years, what will you do after?" I thought hard about this for a few minutes giving Lina just enough time to sigh and glare at me. "Hello?" She asked me.

"Ah well…" I said shrugging. "Never really thought about it, I'd just assumed I'd be with you forever I guess." For some reason Lina gave another annoyed sigh.

"Idiot. Don't you ever want to get married, settle down and have kids or something?"

"Someday."

"Well you can't really follow me around forever then can you?" Now I was really starting to get confused.
"Huh, why?" She pinched her nose in frustration.

"Oy, forget it."

"I don't get it, do you want me to stop traveling with you?"
"Well, no!" She sputtered causing me to blink. "Look jellyfish, how is you're wife going to react to you hanging around another woman all day and night? You can't just follow me around forever like a lost puppy. For that matter you won't even be able to meet anyone if you keep following me around!"

"But Lina, that's not true. I've met loads of woman interested in me when I was with you…err…" Apparently that must have been a bad thing to say. Her eyes lowered in a death glare that was ablaze almost the same as the fire. Growling, she thrust the stick she was holding into the flames and watched as it burnt away. I wondered if she was imagining the stick to be me… "You really don't make any sense though…" I said quietly to myself not wanting to actually be the next thing that ended up I the fire. "I mean…oh!" My sudden exclamation made her look dangerously in my direction. "I think I get it now!"

"Genius you are…"

"But… you're acting like the stupid one…" I said pointing a finger at her.

"What!?" She shouted getting upset again.

"Come on, do you really still have to ask how I feel?" Her face fell into questioning as I reached my right hand into my pocket trying to pull something out if it. Finally I was able to remove the red stone I had been keeping in there for the past few months.
"Is that..." Lina rushed over and yanked the stone from my hold. "It is!" She shrieked plopping on the dirt next to me so she could examine it more closely. "A Red Fire Stone! Gourry where did you get this?" I could see the money signs light up in her eyes as she spoke.

"Hey! Don't even think about selling that!"

"Aw come on! You owe me for losing my sword of light!"

"Your sword of light?! It was mine and I wasn't going to sell it to you anyway! And you're not selling that!"

"Why not?" She pouted. "This could put us up for nice inns and some good food for at least a few months!"

"Because one day I was hoping to get it placed on your wedding band!" I yanked the stone back from her as she sulked.

"A wedding band!? Why would you-" She went silent for a moment before snapping her head upward completely in my direction.

"I'd go down on one knee but- we're both already sitting…" I smiled.

Authors Note:
Like it says, here I will upload poems, one-shots, short stories and scenes from my mind in the Slayers World. While all of them are Lina and Gourry oriented now, mostly because I find them easiest to write about and they are my favorite Slayers couple, not all stories will focus on them. I plan to focus on individual characters, other relationships, and you might just find a couple fanon relationships in future stories, it just depends on what I write. My previous shorts, "Love Letter" and "By This Fire" will be deleted as individual one-shots and moved here.