He was a simple man
Theme: Secret Joy (#29) – theme taken from 101_Kisses
Genre: General
Rating: PG-13
He was a simple man, really.
They had known it. He had figured it out eventually.
It actually made things rather easy.
So, if Jadeite wanted to think that he was here to ogle the maenads, so be it.
He didn't see the need to correct him. Didn't recognize to what purpose it would be done.
He simply enjoyed the presence of his comrade.
Jadeite, despite all impressions and appearances, was a comrade. Even if they had never been before, circumstances deemed they be so now. To at least get away from the boy who only appeared to speak mysteriously and quite annoyingly to them.
And though he'd really rather not admit it, Nephrite really did feel a kinship with Jadeite, as someone who'd been through what he had, as someone who knew his past, who was connected to his past.
He was someone who could remind Nephrite of who he had been, before he lost himself in this hopeless paradise, filled with all the beauty and desperate loneliness Nephrite could imagine.
And if the view so happened to be water droplets rolling off of two naked maenads built for dreams, so be it.
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