Drabble #2
Theme: Hearth
Pairing: Nu X Ragna
~x x x~
Nu was always fantasizing, shaping out her much desired, much anticipated future with her one true love. It was the only pastime in which she could find solace, in her desperate wait for Ragna to approach and take her from the vacant, unfulfilling void known as reality.
One of her most favourite dreams was the modest dwelling veiled in solitude, surrounded by darkened forests. There only she and Ragna could be.
In the quaint, disheveled cottage, the rest of the world was dead to them, nonexistent. It was perfect, except for the temperature...
"Nu's fingers are freezing..."
Warm, callous fingers wrapped around her cool, small hands. Nu smiled in content, resting her head back on Ragna's chest as he knelt over her where she sat crouched next to the steadily dying fire. The grassy scent of his red jacket elated her to the point that she inhaled, pretending to sigh, just so she could smell it again. It made her feel... safe, happy... but then suddenly, Ragna left.
Bewildered, she asked why he was leaving, and then she noticed a log tossed into the fireplace. Recreating the fire, her smirked, amused at her clingy tendencies.
"Come here, you," he said in his gruff, flippant tone. Nu scrambled toward him eagerly, and even though was draped in a thin, warm blanket; Ragna wrapped his strong arms around her meek, cold shoulders for extra warmth.
Together, kept their hands before the warm background of the flames.
They were warm, happy and safe.
But unfulfilling reality jerked her back to the present, almost cruelly.
If only her life could have followed the path of her fantasies...
The only warmth she would now experience, was alone, by herself, as she plundered downward into to the abyssal hearth of reality.
Ragna, far from sight, was out of her grasp, yet Nu stretched her hand up hopefully, tears trickling, heart pounding and fingers desperately held out against the background of the blazing flames.
The hearth of reality was heart breaking, hope shattering, miserable pain, and it hungrily engulfed her.
~x x x~