Story: I'll Protect You
Universe: Shane Acker's 9
Relationship: 1 and ShadowSilver (father and daughter)
Genre: Drama, angst, hurt/comfort
( BEWARE!!! THE FATHER/DAUGHTER FLUFFINESS IS CONTAINED IN THIS STORY!!!)
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It was a normal morning as usual. The sun is dawning a bright orange and pink, and the temperature seems to be as cold as it gets. It's earlier, around 6 o'clock, and the weather is cold. It's a bit breezy, too as well.
At the home of the stitchpunks, 1 sat on the couch with his arms resting on his legs, tired from waking up earlier in the morning, everyone else (except 9) went out on an early morning scout, doing some work around the wasteland. The elder sighs deeply, trying not to doze off to sleep again. 9 then comes walking down the stairs, watching 1 trying not to drift off. The elder also shook a teensy bit from the cold temperature from the weather.
"Hey, 1." 9 said.
1 looked up at the young man, had nothing to say to him, because of his tiredness and him shivering from the cold. All the elder can do was sigh, putting his head back down, trying his best not to fall asleep again. 9 tilted his head, curious at the old man.
"...You okay?" 9 asked softly, trying not to pressure 1 too much. Especially early in the morning.
The elder sighs and decided to say to 9 quietly in a mumble "...Tired and... Cold."
"I know," the young man replied to 1's words "it's freezing. The temperature is getting cold. Is ShadowSilver up?"
1 sighs deeper and answered "No. Sleeping, still."
"Maybe because of what happened last time when you keep mistreating her and maybe tried to hurt her after your guys' argument about her following everyone's paths of scouting every wastelands instead of your path, and she thinks that you wouldn't be treating everyone else like we are freaks and possibly making those rules more unfair and not making things better? And possibly she gives you the point about your dumbass, unfair rules and why she suggested a better way to make this better?" 9 assumed smugly.
Annoying and angered, 1 snarled and snapped at the young man, trying not to wake ShadowSilver, his adoptive daughter up, who is still sleeping in her room "Well maybe because she wasn't even listening to me! She disrespects me, and not following my orders by following everyone's paths instead of mine, disrespecting my rules and gives me those damn attitudes and-"
"1," 9 cuts him off firmly "she's your daughter! You can't be treating her like that. Especially when she tries pointing out to you about what is better and what is right. You can't be doing that! C'mon! It's too early for this! You'll wake ShadowSilver up!"
1 at 9 for a moment, his face softened, sobering for a moment. 9 looks at him back, the same expression the old man is giving him. They both frowned.
1 sighed and said to the young stitchpunk "... I'm sorry, 9. I just... can't stand her attitude and her disrespect, but... *sigh* ...I love her. And I don't know what to do with myself. It's hard being a single father."
9 then smiled softly, sighs as well. "... I know. Try your best to grow your relationship with her more strong." He said. 1 nods sadly at his words. The young stitchpunk sighs.
"Welp," 9 said before leaving the house "I'm heading out with the others. You sure you're going to be okay with this weather?"
"I'm sure." 1 mumbled.
9 wasn't sure, though, but said to 1 before leaving "...Okay."
After 9 left the house, 1 sighs, trying to stay awake. He sighs, then looks up at the stairs, waiting for if ShadowSilver is up yet. 1 breathes slowly and softly. Then he gets up from the couch and walked upstairs to his daughter's room to check on her. He slowly opened the door, trying not to wake her up. He peered through the room to check if everything is okay. ShadowSilver is okay, she was just sleeping.
1 sighs, entering ShadowSilver's room as the girl sleeps on her left side, her hand close her face. She was sleeping peacefully, and breathing slowly and silently. 1 walks over to her bed and sat beside her, watching her sleep and her body moving up and down as she breathes.
1 frowns and sighs, gazing at his sleeping daughter. He reflected on his actions towards her and their arguments over their disagreement on which path of rules to follow. It would hurt ShadowSilver and 1 more. 1 strokes her arm and shoulder for 10 seconds, and then stroking her pink hair with his knuckles and his fingers.
1 continues to gaze at his daughter. Despite her disagreeing with his overprotective rules, his path that wouldn't make things any better, and her falling relationship with her father with arguments and his mistreating actions towards her, 1 has tried everything to make things better for ShadowSilver. He knows that. And it's hard for him, being a single father, trying everything for his daughter. He could feel the regrets coming to him after his actions towards the young girl in the past.
1 knows, and wanted to see how beautiful his daughter is, which she is now.
The elderly father continues to stroke ShadowSilver hair, watching her sleep peacefully. She was cold just a little, but with 1 at her side, she was warm.
1 sighs and leans towards the girl, planting a kiss on top of her head. Then just before he gets up, he hears a soft, quiet groan. ShadowSilver opened half of her eyes tiredly, half-tired. She turns her head to her dad, blindly seeing him after waking up, her body turned to the position to where her dad was. The girl sighs, 1 breathes softly and slowly, seeing his daughter's beautiful face, her body battling to wake up, but too weak to do so, caused by the temperature of her body.
"F-father?" The tired girl whispers.
"Hey." 1 replied softly and traced his daughter's locks of her hair. ShadowSilver shivers from the cold after being woken up.
"W-what are you doing here at this early hour?" She asked in her shivers "Like, what t-time is it?"
1 sighs before answering her. "6:05, everyone is out. They'll be back soon."
"This e-early?" ShadowSilver whispered in surprise. "Wow..."
Before she could say anything else, 1 places his back hand on her cheek, gazing at her face and breathes.
"...I'm sorry about what happened." He decide to apologize about their rough time in the past.
ShadowSilver sighs, all shakey and added "... It's, uhh... Alright..."
1 was about to add anything to say to her, but decided to let her sleep in a little at this early hour to be sure she is all up and less exhausted.
"I'll let you continue sleep a little. You'll need more energy for the day." 1 got up and said, exiting out of his daughter's room.
ShadowSilver turns to her side and attempts to fall asleep, but thinks about the way 1 treats her in the past. She had argued with him about his rules, why she refuses to follow them and tried to convince him a different rule. It broke her heart, and it hurts her how much she hated the way her father mistreats her like that. She was so scared. ShadowSilver then got up, fighting her tiredness. She yawned softly, breathing in and out, and everything is dead quiet.
The girl looked around the room, sighing sadly, and deciding to forget about the past and move on with the day. She gets up from her bed, threw on her light pink dress and looks into her mirror, sighing at her body. Then, ShadowSilver brushes her hair and then puts on her pink rose crown on her head. She smiles at her beauty, wishing 1 would be more impressive by her looks as his daughter she is to be by looking at how beautiful she is to him with herself. ShadowSilver sighs and began her day.
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Out in the destroyed city, 1 stood against one of the
damaged cars, sighing, thinking about his daughter. He was cold. The temperature started dropping as soon as dawn lit up brightly.
As 1 stood still as a stone by the car, 2, 5, 7 and 8 showed up behind him, curious at the elder, standing there, remorsing what happened.
2 walked over to 1 and asked "Is everything okay?"
1 turned to the elder as everyone else started walking towards them. 7 scolded at him, assumed what worst has happened. 8 and 5, on the other hand, both confused at the old man.
1 sighs and answers to 2 "... I'm fine. Just cold."
2 sighs. Then he asked him "Is... ShadowSilver okay?"
After 1 hears the name of his daughter, he reflected again. He sighs and replied to 2's question "Yeah, she's okay."
"I mean," 2 managed to say "after what happened, you kinda been an ass to her about why your path is ridiculous and-"
1 letted out an irritated sigh after 2 started to bring up the past.
"Well, I apologized to her, isn't that enough?" The elder firmly cuts the other elder off "I feel so bad for her, I couldn't begin to-"
"Okay," the inventor curs him off "first off, why are you like this? Why are you always a coward and an old jackass that doesn't make things better by doing what is right? Second off, you don't treat people like they are a pieces of garbage, or not sane, and especially you don't EVER mistreat ShadowSilver LIKE THAT! EVER! She was trying to point out what is right for us to do for survival and-"
"Okay, well maybe that girl needs to learn about safety!" 1 snapped at the old man. 2 blinked and stepped back away, startled and panting. 1 felt his anger boiling inside him and everyone looked at the old men after arguing over the past. The twins, 3 and 4 hid behind 7. 5, 6 and 8 stood there frozen.
2 looked at the angered old man, seeing what he truly is, a coward.
1 starts to soften up, and sighs to calm himself down. "I'm sorry." He breathes.
2 calms down as well, gazing at the remorseful man. 1 looks at 2, frowning sadly, reflected about the past once again.
2 sighs, and 1 said to him softly and quietly "... I've completely lost sight of almost everything. All I wanted is to do what is best for my daughter."
2 thought in his head, thinking what 1 should know long time ago. He asked the old man "Well, 1? Don't you think ShadowSilver is a bit... Old enough to take care of herself?"
"I mean," 7 began to say "she kinda does take care of her own self, but she has to have help from us at some time."
"True..." 2 added.
1 sighs and added also "I don't know... She seems... Defenseless and terrified at anything that she is afraid of and couldn't even take. I wanted to protect her... Because I love her as my daughter. I don't want her to be scared and worrying."
7 sighs and started to say to him, trying her best not to get angry with him "Well... It is true. But doesn't it have to do with her, having to not follow your rules, such as we do? I mean, ugh!!! 1, seriously, mistreating her is not going to help it! ShadowSilver is just a young girl, and she is scared, but she will have it in her heart to do what is right. And you got to understand that."
1 frowns sadly at the young woman for a moment before replying. He sighs and breathes out "...I know. I'm trying real hard."
7 sighs sadly, sobering and added "I know..."
Everyone looked down, thinking about the past between 1 and ShadowSilver once again, then they started to shiver over the weather's temperature.
"Damn, it's getting cold." 5 cursed in his shivering voice.
"Uh, yeah? It is!" 8 said to the one eyed stitchpunk.
5 scolded at him, then said to 1 "... Hopefully you'll be fine with ShadowSilver."
1 nods sadly and with a tiny smile, and 2 said "We'll be out. See you, friend."
The old man gave the stitchpunk leader a pat in the shoulder. 1 gazes up at him and murmured "...Yeah, I guess."
Everyone began to walk away from the old man, letting him alone to rethink about ShadowSilver and his actions in the past, which led him being lost in his thoughts, all alone...
1 sighs sadly in a deep voice, reflected on 2's words about his overprotectiveness to ShadowSilver, and fearing the worst what will happen to his daughter. His paranoia starts to grow stronger in his body, he could feel his chest would burst out from his worries. The old stitchpunk decides to head back home to check on his daughter, to see if she is alright without any worries, deciding to make things better for her.
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At the house, ShadowSilver was in her bedroom, sitting on her bed and playing her favorite instrument that was made back in the Renaissance period, the lute, even though she was too tired to sing because of her voice, even in an early morning, she got really bored after hours. She began play a calming and beautiful melody of the lute that echoed across the room.
As 1 started walking upstairs to his daughter's room, he hears the lute music playing inside. He knew it was ShadowSilver playing the music. 1 started to gasp out as he quickly walked upstairs, waiting for his daughter to sing. He wanted to hear her voice singing from across the room, knowing how much he loved his daughter's beautiful singing voice.
But after minutes of hearing the lute music playing, it didn't happen.
1 didn't even hear any singing at all. He grew curious, taking a deep breath and decided to check on ShadowSilver instead of waiting.
As the girl continued to play her medieval instrument, 1 opens the door and knocks on it. Startled, ShadowSilver gasps as she sees her father, making her slip by missing some notes of her music, stopping the melody. The girl panted and breathing in and out, her heart pounding in a fast speed in her chest as it rose and fell as she breathes, holding onto her lute.
"You scared the crap out me, father!" She breathes out, trying to give 1 a smile from her panting, and chuckles a tiny bit.
1 chuckles as he leans his elbow onto the door frame, a hand places on his cheeks, and his other hand placed on his hips, smiling at his daughter.
"Why didn't you sing for me to hear?" He asked with a smile.
"Well,..." ShadowSilver began to answer, blushing embarrassingly and looks away from the old man, then looks at him, lowering her instrument down, trying to be honest with him the reason why she couldn't sing in the early hour "...my voice was tired in this early morning... And I couldn't sing and I-"
"ShadowSilver, my dear..." 1 cuts her off, walking towards her with his hands on his hips "you don't have to be this tired for it."
He tenderly places his hand on his daughter's cheek, gazing at her. "...I wanted to hear your beautiful voice..." He whispers.
ShadowSilver turns away, blushing a bit nervously, trying to make a smile. "Uhh..." She stuttered "...Hehehe..."
1 chuckles and kisses her on the head. ShadowSilver giggles after his kiss, and 1 backs away from her, gazing at her.
"You are beautiful..." He says softly. ShadowSilver blushes.
"So..." ShadowSilver began to ask "what is happening?"
Before 1 answered, he thinks about what 2 said.
Would ShadowSilver know about this?
1 fears what she will respond if he told her the truth.
"Well..." 1 tried to say stutterly, but he couldn't. He felt nervous.
ShadowSilver frowns at him, curious. "What is it?" She asked.
1 sighs, couldn't bring himself to tell her the truth, and replies "... Nevermind."
"No, what is it?" ShadowSilver asked again. "Are you okay? Is something wrong?"
1 now sighs in annoyance, not wanting to bring up anything.
"I said nevermind!" The old man firmly said. He walks out of his daughter's room.
ShadowSilver, who is now worried and wanting to know what is going on, isn't gonna let 1 keep anything she is curious about a secret. She puts down her lute and attempts to follow her father downstairs.
"What is wrong?" She kept asking him, while he tries his best to ignore her questions he doesn't want to hear. "Is it about what happened?"
"Forget about what happened!" 1 snapped angerly. "We already apologized and that's it! No more of that!"
ShadowSilver startled at his words, leaving her breathing rapidly from being startled. 1 looks at her, hoping she'd never mention their past again. He walks away, leaving ShadowSilver angry at 1, for not actually telling the truth.
"...Well," she began to ask "... isn't it about your-"
"Yes it is! 2 and everyone else told me!" 1 snarled. This time, ShadowSilver wasn't even flinching at his words.
"What did they say?" She asked.
"Alright, we are not gonna keep this up, I am not talking about this no more, I am NOT gonna let you break my rules!" The old man refused to explain, leaving ShadowSilver more pissed, not giving up.
"Is it about your rules and your overprotectiveness towards me!?" She asks "Because everyone can't stand your rules and wanting to do what is right for them!? I would agree with them, but you? I don't think your rules are suitable for survival. Your overprotectiveness towards me is too much and-"
"I only did that to protect you and-!" The old stitchpunk cutted her off angerly, but she wouldn't listen.
"But the way you do it, though!" She cuts him off back "Mistreating me isn't very protective and helping! You don't do that to me! You were being overprotective of me because you worry about me so much! Wouldn't I be doing the things on my own and-"
"Now don't be a smart-ass!" 1 snaps, have had enough of the past and lectures ShadowSilver again. "I was only trying to protect you and the others! But you're giving me those damn attitudes and being disrespectful to me and not following my damn rules about safety! You think you can talk to me like I'm not sane about what crap I made to protect ourselves!? No! You shouldn't! I was only protecting you, God knows if something happens to you and that's IT!"
"But-" ShadowSilver tried to argue with 1, but he refused to listen to her.
"Don't you talk back to me! I don't give a damn how you feel!" 1 lectures her once again. "Enough of this damn attitude and leave all your morbid questions all behind in your own personal nonsense! Do you understand!?
ShadowSilver is left, startled at his cruel words. She shook, trying her best not to cry. 1 looks at her, his sinister eyes look like he'll do something to her if she doesn't listen to him. ShadowSilver breathes in and out, her chest rose and fell with a shiver. She slowly and trembled to the couch, sat on it with her legs shaking, her head down and her shaking wrists to her face, and she's freezing at the same time.
ShadowSilver sighs shiverly, leaving hopelessly losing the argument, her face warm. 1 is left to remorse the way his behavior is to his daughter. He sighs, regretting what he did.
Maybe he is overprotective towards her. But he couldn't help it. He loved her, and wanted to protect her. Wanting what is best for her.
The old man looks at his daughter, all shaking the way he raised his voice towards her, hurting her feelings and breaking her heart.
"Look," 1 began to say as the girl looks up at him, trying not to cry. "I'm sorry... I never meant to hurt your personal feelings. I am just overprotective."
"Then why do you treat me like that?" ShadowSilver asks softly, almost a sob. "I don't deserve to be treated like this. I am just... Afraid."
1 sighs and began saying "...I know, and I regret it. But your my daughter. I love you, and I want to protect you because I don't want to see my daughter getting attacked or killed."
ShadowSilver now begin to sob.
1 walked towards her and cupped her face, lifting her head up.
"...I want to safe. I wanted to protect you, darling." He whispered. "I wanted what's best for you."
ShadowSilver sighs in between her sobs. She looks down, doesn't know what to say or know. After all what she had been through with everything they have done, disagreeing one another, she knows she is scared, yet knows her father wanted to protected to her. Always... If something does happen.
1 sighs and looks down at the young girl. She looks up at him as well.
"Come here." The old man whispered, pulling his daughter close to his chest for a hug with his chin on top of her head, trying not to destroy her rose crown and attempting to comfort her.
ShadowSilver hugs 1 back, feeling warmth growing from the hug. She slide her left hand on 1's chest, facing her face as the old stitchpunk held her tightly. 1 pets the ShadowSilver's pink hair as she could feel his chest rise and fall as he breathes. The girl can also hear her father's ticking heartbeat, calming her down.
1 sighs and kisses his daughter's head, and continues to pet her hair. They began to pull away from the hug. 1 looks away from her, and the girl looks at him.
"... You okay?" She asks.
"...Yeah," the old man replied softly. "just... tired."
All he can do is just sigh, and he walked upstairs to his room. ShadowSilver follows him there, hoping to help him out with his paranoia.
"Is there something you like to help with?" 1 asks as the two arrived in his room.
"I wanted to help you calm your fears." The girl answers.
1 sat on his king-sized bed, breathing slowly. ShadowSilver sat next to him, held onto him closer to her, helping him calm down from his troubled worries and deepest fears. The old stitchpunk began to relax, as the girl strokes his arm. She sighs, and he did the same. They let go, and looked at each other.
"I know you've been worrying lately." ShadowSilver said. 1 nods and lets out a sigh and gets up to find a brush. ShadowSilver sighs and turns around behind, scooted back and crisscrossed. 1 helded the brush and started to redo ShadowSilver's hair.
"Can you remove your crown, dear?" He requested after he stopped for a minute. The girl did what her father told her, and he continued to brush her beautiful, long, pink hair.
ShadowSilver thinks about the protection she is given by her father, sighing, probably in a process of beginning to cry again, holding her rose crown.
"...Father?" She said. "You've been protecting me... But... I wanted... To protect you."
1 stops brushing ShadowSilver's hair at her words. He lowers his arms, frowning curiously and sadly.
"Why?" The old man asks softly.
ShadowSilver sighs, about to sob as she explained "...I don't want you to worry about everything and fear what is worst is coming to me. I know you tried everything to keep us alive. And I just... I want to protect you as well as you did to me. I just... Don't want to lose a dad like you."
She sighs again, about to cry. 1 sighs. It broke his heart seeing his daughter crying. He putted the brush away in the drawer and sat next to ShadowSilver. She turns around, facing him. 1 took her rose crown, placing it on her head and his fingers brushed her locks, seeing her beautiful face. ShadowSilver looks at him with smile.
"...I just wanted to see how beautiful you really are... And I promise to protect you and keep you safe from harm." Her father says softly.
ShadowSilver sighs and scooted close to 1, hugging him and cried quietly into his chest, burying her face into it. Her father hugs his daughter back. He cradles and kisses her as she begins to calm down.
They pull away and looked at each other. 1 places his hand on her cheek, smiling.
"...I know you want to keep me safe." He whispers.
ShadowSilver sighs as 1 lowers his arm, and he sighs, frowning, feeling tired.
"...You must be tired." The girl said to him.
"Mhm..." 1 breathes, and he began to lay down on his left side of his body, beginning to be in a process of sleeping. ShadowSilver scoots backwards to face 1.
"Do you think you'll feel better in the morning?" She asks him.
He nodded and replied in a whisper "...Yeah. I will..."
The girl places her hand on her father's cheek, petting it up and down, helping him fall asleep.
"I love you, father." ShadowSilver whispers in a sweet, soft tone.
"I love you, too, my daughter." 1 whispers in a deep, soft tone as well and began to drift away into his peaceful slumber, breathing slowly and calmly.
ShadowSilver then moves her hand away from his face, grabbing a crimson blanket with pinkish-red medieval swirls design she made him, and placing it on 1's body.
The girl then scoots next to her father, holding him and decided to sing to him to give him a chance to let him hear her, especially when he's asleep.
ShadowSilver beginning singing this to him:
"Anata o michibiku tame ni saru ten kara no supuraito.
(A sprite from the heavens leaving to guide you.)
Eien no michi no hikari no naka o arukimasu.
(Walking into the light of eternal path.)
Anata no kokoro o sora ni oroshite kudasai.
(Have your heart descent to the sky.)
Anata no hikari ni aruite, anata no unmei o mitsukete kudasai...
(Walk to your light, and find your fate...)"
After she finished, she hoped he heard her, even if he didn't understand the Japanese language.
Her voice was an angel. An angel coming down from the heavens to sing a lullaby to help people find happiness and to relax.
That is what ShadowSilver is.
ShadowSilver sighs, leans forward to kiss 1 on the forehead. The old man opened his eyes, seeing his beautiful daughter, smiling. The girl leans forward to hug her father. 1 hugs her back and kisses her head. They pull away for ShadowSilver to let her father sleeping.
The girl gets off of his bed, watching him sleep and exit out of his room, letting him rest.
1 thinks about what he heard. He heard his daughter singing to him. She had the most beautiful voice, even if he didn't understand Japanese.
All he knew... They want to protect each other from danger. As father and daughter...
And from that moment on, 1's promise... Was her promise as well...
The end.
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This fanfic is written back in January 2022.
It's my first 1 and ShadowSilver father and daughter fanfic ; I loved him throughout the movie, more like a father to me lol so I took the opportunity to write this w
It was my first shot and yeah. The lyrics are from Google Translator I did on there soooooooo yeah ;
Not much to say, but what y'all think?
Stitchpunk 1-9 and 9 belongs to Shane Acker, Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov and Focus Features
ShadowSilver and story belongs to me (SuperShadowSilver)
No copyright infringement is intended