Title: Anchor
Rating: K
Pairing: Seifer/Squall
Summary: Squall reflects on Seifer. Companion to Mirror Images.


Watching Seifer watch him, all gleaming adoration and want and broken-emerald gaze, is like being stripped out of his walls, bare and exposed. Everything he could have ever dreamed of, everything he feared, everything he is, is reflected back at him in a thousand tiny pieces, showing him how they've changed, grown, become broken. The world they've built up is presented to him in the wreckage, and it ensnares him, traps him, haunts his dreams.

It's the only stability he has left, the only anchor to life holding him down, proving to him that he's not the only one here.