Title: To Be Valiant
Author/Artist: sailorraspberry
Medium: Fanfic
Theme: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason." - T.S. Eliot
Genre: Romance
Version: Manga
Rating: PG
"You should go now."
Venus looked up a Kunzite, arm draped across his chest. "So soon?"
He inhaled, eyes closed. "We should really stop seeing each other like this."
She arched an eyebrow. "You said that last time."
His lips quirked, and she knew that the battle was over.
It hadn't really started.
"Kunzite, why do you keep telling me that?"
He lifted one eyelid to look at her. She pulled the covers over her shoulders, eyes an intense blue. "I'm trying to be valiant."
"Valiant," she repeated, slowly, so she could test the word. "What for?"
"To do the right thing."
She fell back next to him, curled up along his side. There was a momentary beat of silence. "I think you're wrong."
He tucked an arm beneath his head. "Sometimes what may seem wrong is really right."
"Not if you don't want to do it." She sat up and looked down at him. A curtain of blonde hair tickled his shoulder. "Do you?"
Kunzite bit the side of his cheek, thinking. "No," he said carefully. "I don't think I want to do that."
She smiled and bent her head to kiss the corner of his mouth. "I didn't think so."