Title: Serendipity
Author: Omnicat
Unofficially Adapted From: Type-Moon's Canaan.
Spoilers & Desirable Foreknowledge: All of the above, though nothing specific.
Characters & Pairings: Maria x Canaan
Summary: Serendipity: when cat's cradle is a game for two. / 100 words
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Serendipity
Their first kiss is, very appropriately, in a dark room. Canaan smells like gunpowder and tastes like coffee, and her calluses scrape against Maria's palms as her fingers clench. It has been years since Shanghai. There is a fading white scar on Canaan's cheek and a press pass clipped to Maria's blouse.
There is a story roaming the streets which Maria is determined to catch, but first she has another prey.
Sighing, smiling, Canaan looks around at the sheets developing on strings all around them; Maria squares her thumbs and forefingers around one eye, winks, and grins. "This one's mine."