APRICOT CREAM
14/07/11
Triangle: Teddy/Lucy/Lysander
Prompts: splash, dazzle & abstract
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Lucy – beauty personified. Her soul alone could dazzle a thousand lions into submission, her smile an even more powerful artefact in her cache.
She sat reading like she always did, not harming anyone, just being. The sea splashed away by her side, and she could smell the sweet apricots from her ice cream on her lap.
Teddy found her incredible, her shy indifference and kind heart, always-there-to-help Lucy. In some abstract way he thought he was perfect for her, he could be her knight in shining armour, the older gentleman who could take care of her, treat her like the princess he saw she was.
Lucy didn't need a knight though, she flitted and floated through life like on wings, carelessly batting at the wind and sky, needing no help, but only the breath in her lungs.
Lysander caught her one day, she was balancing on a branch and she had slipped, and fallen into his arms. Her smile of thanks enchanted him, he thought her special, perfect, the one for him.
Though Lucy thought herself indifferent, she never felt any more special than a link in a chain. No one was perfect, including Lucy, and she knew that the one for her would see that in her.