Day 11
Falling
(Sophie/King)
I fell for you
Step by step
Wall by wall
Tumbling down.
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She hadn't expected this at all. It was completely outside her sphere of knowledge, and frankly it left her baffled. It shouldn't have worked out like this. It shouldn't have been so simple.
Of all the people for her head and her heart to agree on, it had been him.
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I fell for you
Day by day
Hour by hour
Winging by.
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She watched him as he launched over and over again, as devoted to battling as he was to anything he did. Sometimes the blade circled clockwise, sometimes anticlockwise. He was master of both. Perhaps his blade was not Excalibur, but it was powerful nonetheless. The huge figure of Mars was more than a match for most. In battle he was unstoppable, unlimited. Only the most powerful bladers could hope to stand up to his strength.
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In the silence and the noise
I saw it all
In the breath and release
I felt myself fall
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She wondered, sometimes, at her own wisdom. Why she had pursued him. Why she'd forsaken a hundred other suitors who were probably more suitable.
Why she'd chosen King.
He wasn't especially noticeable, she'd thought at first. If she hadn't stopped to take a second look, perhaps she would have moved right by him and missed one of the best things to fly into her life.
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I fell for you
Drop by drop
Line by line
Voice so soft.
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She'd once described him to Mei-Mei, who had smiled and said "Oh, I love it when team-mates get together. I think it's adorable."
Naturally, Sophie had been immensely confused. King certainly wasn't her team-mate.
That was the first time that she had realised just how many similarities there were between her captain and the boy she loved.
A European background. An armoured humanoid constellation. A blade rotating left and right. An unrivalled power. A link to a powerful European sword.
She had spent the rest of the week in shock, wondering whether she had decided she was in love with King because she was actually in love with Julian, or whether it was the other way round, or whether she only liked the black-haired boy because she knew her captain and admired him. She didn't know what it was.
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I fell for you
Laugh by laugh
Smile by smile
Secretly.
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Then she met him again, and really looked at him and really listened. And she found out that maybe he and Julian shared a very similar blade, but that was it. In actuality they were utterly different. King was feisty and energetic and full of enthusiasm for anything and everything. He couldn't care less whether he had to live up to other people's expectations, because he just wanted to blade against the strongest bladers in the world, who also happened to be his friends.
Julian bore the weight of his family on his slender shoulders with pride, dignity and gravitas. King sparkled through life like a hurricane of fireworks. It was impossible to be sad when he was around.
It was impossible not to fall in love with him.
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In the silence and the noise
I saw you rise
In the dawning of the sun
I saw myself fall
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Her background proudly declared that she should have gone for a gentleman, someone with money and a title to spare, perhaps a mansion or two. Someone like Julian. But instead, she'd picked the young man with hair that bled white when he attacked at full strength, with bright blue eyes and a smile that spoke of nothing but a thankfulness at being alive.
She, too, was thankful that she was alive. It meant that she got to see him every day.
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Phoenix and flame
Circle unending
We rise but to fall
Empire and King
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Falling for him hadn't been hard. He was the only person confident enough to walk right up to her and ask her out, not knowing about her titles or her past or her money or anything. He just knew her as a blader, as a woman, as the girl he'd also fallen for.
In the end, it had been far easier than she had ever thought.
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I fell for you
Sound by sound
Hush by hush
I fell.