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anythingdrabbleTitle: For Lack of Attention
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII
Author:the_paradigm
Characters/Pairing: Basch & Penelo (Basch/Penelo if you want)
Rating: G
Challenge: Amnesty Round, Challenge 22: Blossom
Word Count: 100
Warnings: Age Gap
Spoilers: End-Game.
Summary: She was a girl, and then suddenly, she wasn't.
Disclaimer: I do not own FFXII or the characters.
“You have foregone your plaits,” he remarks quietly when she turns for him in her new dress.
She stops to look at him, and her bright eyes seem to laugh. “Basch, I haven’t worn braids in at least a year now,” she says with a small shrug of her shoulders, regarding him with a gentle, knowing smile. She was never going to be taller, she had said once, and with some chagrin. But that did not mean she would not grow, he had responded; she would still be a woman someday.
His throat tightens. He had not noticed, until now.
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII
Author:
the_paradigmCharacters/Pairing: Basch & Penelo (Basch/Penelo if you want)
Rating: G
Challenge: Amnesty Round, Challenge 22: Blossom
Word Count: 100
Warnings: Age Gap
Spoilers: End-Game.
Summary: She was a girl, and then suddenly, she wasn't.
Disclaimer: I do not own FFXII or the characters.
“You have foregone your plaits,” he remarks quietly when she turns for him in her new dress.
She stops to look at him, and her bright eyes seem to laugh. “Basch, I haven’t worn braids in at least a year now,” she says with a small shrug of her shoulders, regarding him with a gentle, knowing smile. She was never going to be taller, she had said once, and with some chagrin. But that did not mean she would not grow, he had responded; she would still be a woman someday.
His throat tightens. He had not noticed, until now.
