Author: ferretgirl1124
Title: Earth Song
Genres: Romance
Warnings/Disclaimers: slash
Pairing: SpeedyxAqualad
Rating: PG
Summary: There is no better music then the song of the earth.
The surface world is always so quiet. In your prisons of concrete and steel you can hear nothing but the noises of your own constructs, and even those sounds seem to bother people. They all try to make everything less obtrusive, less annoying. But what happens when all the 'obtrusions' are gone, and you are left with nothing but the sound of your own heartbeat?
In Atlantis, our music was life. The whales singing, the ocean currents...I would never have tried to dampen those sounds. It was peaceful. He didn't understand. I tried to explain so many times, but he was just like all the others. I don't know why surface dwellers have closed their ears to the sounds of the earth, but it may be one of the reasons they can cause such wantant destruction.
I'm so tired. Nothing I've tried works. A few of them understand, but it's the ones tied to the earth, or to emotions; Raven, Beast Boy, Bumblebee. The one I really want to understand can't. Or won't.
So I sit here in the rain, and let it brush away the tension. The thunder and lightening dance above me, and nothing could be more exilirating. I'm so caught up in the storm that at first I don't notice he has joined me. His mask is off, for once, and he lays splayed out, smiling as the rain douses him, looking completely content. Light flashes, and in that one moment I catch his eye, and I smile too. Maybe he does understand after all.