Tales of a Legacy
This is a pairing I hadn't considered before, but I finally came up with a plot bunny. I also feel the need to restate the disclaimer since it's been a few chapters: I do not own Tales of Legendia, its characters, or anything associated with it. I am not making money from these stories (obviously :P).
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Title: Shortie
Characters/Pairings: JayxNorma
Warnings: None.
Jay puts a knife through the skull of a monster that's about to attack Norma from behind and sighs. Dates with Norma are no fun, because she always drags him with her while she hunts for treasure. Jay almost never gets to choose what they do, and this is no exception. Norma says this is because he'd "only choose something boring like teasing Red." She also claims that because she is one inch taller than him, she is entitled to make all the decisions.
Norma finishes off the rest of the encroaching Egg Bears with a well timed Black Hole. She turns to Jay and grins at him. Jay blushes and looks away, although he does take this opportunity to grumble at her carelessness.
"Remind me why we're here again?"
Norma makes a show of looking annoyed at Jay's question. "Well, duh, JJ. There's a supposed to be another artifact like the Everlight. Remember the Relares tablets that were dug up in these ruins a while ago?" Jay doesn't respond, because he's not an idiot and he knew about them even before Norma did. "When translated, they were very similar to reports of the Everlight."
Jay brushes some imaginary dust off of his clothes in an attempt to look bored and thinks about other things they could be doing now. They could be fishing with the Oresoren. The Oresoren like Norma and her silly nicknames, and Jay is glad that they like her because he doesn't want to be torn between his adoptive family and his girlfriend.
Jay's odd train of thoughts makes him really want to go fishing instead of mucking around in a cave.
"And why do you seem so interested in this new treasure, aside from the fact that you're a treasure fanatic?"
"Hey, this treasure wouldn't be just for me! If we find it, I could wish for you to be taller, Shortie!" Norma hovers her hand a few inches above her head, giving Jay a visual for how tall he would be.
Jay's eye twitches. He doesn't really like Norma's nicknames (okay, sometimes he likes it when she calls him JJ, but he wouldn't voluntarily admit that), but Shortie is the absolute worst. He sees Norma giving him a sly look out of the corner of her eyes. She only uses that name when she's trying to be cute. Again, Jay thinks that he would really like to go fishing.
This is what spending so much time with Norma does to him. It makes him illogical and spontaneous. Before he can return to the intelligent being that he normally is, he puts his hand on Norma's neck and pulls her down, but not very far because it's only one inch, and kisses her. After he breaksoff the kiss he says;
"You're bad at making wishes and bad at dating. Next time I decide."
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Jay received the title of Vertically Challenged!
I was playing around in Jay's CQ and got to the scene where everyone was comparing heights. And thus this was born. More proof that I should never have kids.
And why does Norma always seem to get some action in every story she's been in? I also notice that I am a parenthesis fiend, and should cut back on them.
I should be cleaning… I have company coming over tomorrow.
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Well, now I'm just rambling because it's 2 in the morning. .
