Underneath It All: Sky and Syd
Disclaimer: Insert something witty and funny here.
Challenge: Escape
Timeframe: Somewhere before Endings
Being with her helped Sky to escape. She was upbeat and fun, peppy and playful. And even if it was only for a little while and there was never a time scheduled for it to be just them, Sky felt as if just being close to Syd made him invincible, made him the luckiest guy in all of the world.
So when he got a chance for it to be just them he usually jumped at it, even if he complained and acted as if she were only a terribly heavy burden to him. She knew she wasn't, that that quite honestly he was really in love with her, and so she would usually just tease him a little bit.
But it was always an escape for Sky, as if just sitting in an ice cream parlor watching Sydney nibble at an ice cream sundae was a portal to another world, another world where Sky was just as peppy and perky as Syd, one where they were together in a romantic sense, one where there was no Gruumm trying to take over or duties or anyone else to come in between them.
It was always a sweet little vacation for him, and he liked that there was never a pre-arranged time slot for it to be just the two of them hanging out. The rest of his life was neat, tidy, orderly. But being with Sydney was spontaneous, and they never came up with a specific agenda. With Syd, whatever happened just happened.
And he needed the escape.