Red Equals Passionate
[A glimpse becomes a look; they could not be more different but they still balance each other out. GenesisxRosso; drabble series]
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters or the FFVII franchise.
A/N: Anyone who's played DoC (and/or watched the cutscenes) will recognize this as Rosso's death scene apparent. For the sake of this pairing, some things have been altered. As for the dialogue...I only remember the "Absurd!" lines, really.... *sweatdrop*
Cheating Death
"Absurd…!"
The Crimson Tsviet forced herself to stand, ignoring the pain lancing through her body with every movement she made. Her red eyes blazed with anger and humiliation as she looked at the man who had made her fall. The sight of him sickened her.
"Absurd…!"
She would not give him that luxury. Rosso refused to give him the privilege to perform the deathblow. The Crimson Tsviet would rather kill herself than let that happen…
And therein lay the solution.
Rosso walked over to the edge of the platform that had been the battleground. Her hand glowing red as she cut the stone. "You will not kill me!" Her cuts were perfect; you couldn't see where they were until the stone began to fall.
She stood on the stone, laughing. Laughing at her defeat, her end, everything, deliberately ignoring the mental voices telling her she could still live on, she only had to unfurl it.
Rosso would not do that.
To live now would be to live in disgrace. And where would she go? She had no one now. She did not need foresight to know that Deepground's fate was sealed, perhaps from the very beginning.
Well, there was someone…but he slept now, and she doubted he'd wake, even for her.
"I love you and I will prove it as many times as I must."
Rosso closed her eyes as memories of her life flashed in her vision: her birth, her mother's death and meeting her father for the first time, meeting Genesis, becoming a Tsviet, seeing the sky for the first time in her life…
How long had she been falling?
The first thing I noticed was your eyes. They were the color of the blue sky in the image projections…
Why was she thinking about that?
Whatever, back to dy—
Before Rosso could finish that thought a black-and-red blur flew into the corner of her vision line and the Crimson Tsviet felt herself being hoisted upwards into a pair of arms. Strong arms.
It happened again: first she only saw the sky-blue eyes glinting with mako and everything else faded into focus. Rosso blinked, eyes widening as she saw the owner of the arms.
"What the hell are you doing!?"
I should be dead, why is the moron preventing that!?
Genesis only smiled, the wind blowing his chestnut mane in all directions.
"You really think I would just watch you die?"