Disclaimer: Nope: Nope, TRC and all related awesomeness is the soulful property of CLAMP. It's possible they own mine and many other fangirl's souls as well but that's another story.
Author's Note: No timeline for this one. It's somewhere before the middle of the series. :)
Dance
~Fai's Viewpoint~
Companions are tricky. Emotions are sticky.
Both should be avoided at all costs.
Or at least, that's what my philosophy was.
In the beginning I told myself I wouldn't get too close. I couldn't afford to.
I told myself it would be easy to manipulate my own emotions. It would be easy to feel nothing but as each day rolled around and turned into another- as I watched their smiles, tears, feats, and fears… the protective shell around my heart began to crumble.
I thought I was safe. It was a phase. It would pass and it almost did too.
Until a tear strained princess confessed to me that she didn't know how to dance and her boy-knight had only just gotten the courage to ask her…
How unfair that two souls, so violently ripped apart by fate, should continue to be separated by something as mundane as the waltz.
I felt anger, pity, hopelessness, loss, and grief.
All for them- those I should not get close to. Those I should feel nothing for.
That was it.
That was the very moment I knew my heart would break if I didn't teach young Sakura-chan how to dance and as I showed her step for step I felt something else awaken in me.
Joy.
Author's Note: A strangely hard one to write. I like parental Fai. As immature or imbalanced as he may seem at times I really think he's good with kids. Just not when there's alcohol around. ;)