Title: Under the Covers
Fandom: Card Captor Sakura
Series: Faces of the Moon

Rating: PG
Summary: Libraries are odd places

Characters: Yue, You
Warnings: Original characters, shortness (perfect 150 words!), um is there such a thing as book-porn? And does this count?

Under the Covers

You're bored.

Around you the books are too dusty and dry and clothbound and numbered to even loom over you. Looming is not for this library. You tap your toe to the buzzing of the fluorescent light and a passing librarian glares. You shrug it off and slouch down the aisle, finger an unexpectedly classy red-leather lion combo. The librarian is looking at you.

You look back, caught suddenly by a line of jaw, the curve of a character-line behind silver-edged spectacles. You wonder suddenly what it would be like to peel away layers of leather and cloth by candlelight, to breathe must, fingers pacing a slow word-track along the white skin of the page, to explore territories eternal and ever new with the reading.

The librarian's eyes flash like sudden moons; you swallow hard.

And go home with some nice Edwardian erotica, instead.

NOTES:

Right. 'Artistic' wank over and done with. Since it's so short, here's a really short Interlude to match it.

Interlude: You're Much Saner, It's Ever So Nice

"Nah, I wouldn't worry about it," Kero-kun said at last. He picked up his beercan with both paws and took a long swig from it, snuggled on Osaka's head under a too-big floppy tiger-hat. Around them, fervent baseball fans waited breathlessly for the final scores of their game. "Clow Reed was a real sweet guy," Kero-kun added in earnest explanation, "but there were problems with his personality." The crowd around them cheered as the sports announcement blared over the PA: The Hanshin Tigers had won again! "So, what, we jump in the river now?"

NOTES: Er, so I read that jumping in the river was one of those things crazy Osakan baseball fans do when their team wins. Yeah, you're right, this drabble doesn't make much sense. Keroberous does indeed state that there were problems with Clow's personality, though I can't remember in which episode of the anime. Next, The Cerberus Dialogues (because everything's better with Keroberous.)