Title – Like a Moth to a Flame
Author – Kaylbunny
Pairing – Rei/Serena
Disclaimer – Not mine
Notes – A drabble again, just over 330 words. There's a surprising lack of angst too.
I see you standing across the room. There's a sea of people but I can see you clearly. Not just because of your hair, beautiful though it is, but because of something else. You have an air around you, an aura like no one else I've ever seen. It's breathtaking, like you.
I move across the room, slowly, like a cat stalking its prey. But you're no mouse. No mere mouse could ever move like you, so confident and graceful. You're lost in the music, I can tell. You're at home in it, twisting and gyrating, moving to the rhythm as though it's as natural as breathing. An extension of your heartbeat.
The crowd parts before me like Moses and the Red Sea, as if they know where I'm going. I tap you on the shoulder and you stop your dance immediately, turning to face me with a smile on that lovely face of yours, and like a moth to the flame I'm caught. I know that if I do not have you then I'll have lost something I've been wanting for a long time. I sense that you are it, but I dare not say or do anything to jeopardise that.
Instead, I take your hand and ask you to dance. You smile again, radiating beauty for the whole room to see and nod your head, entwining our hands. I lead you further to the centre of the floor, finding a space where I can have you all to myself, not wanting to share you with anyone.
You don't seem to mind, and as one song melts into another you stay with me, not going anywhere or making excuses to leave. So we keep on dancing, distantly aware that time creeps forward but not acknowledging it. And at the end of the night, when the music stops and we walk out together, you don't say goodbye.
Instead, you lean forward, brushing your lips ever so slightly to my own and lead me away with a smile.
The End.