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rainbowfic2013-05-27 05:32 pm
auguris) wrote in rainbowfic2013-05-27 05:32 pm
Entry tags:
Transparent 14. Sunrise
Name: auguris
'verse: Universe Lost
Story: Sunrise
Colors: Transparent 14. Sunrise
Supplies and Styles: Pastels (friendship)
Word Count: 482
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mentions of drug-use.
Summary: Bren has something important to tell Katherine.
Katherine settled in next to Bren, leaving half a seat-space between them. Not else occupied this section of the observatory deck; Horizon never really slept, but by one am station time most of the off-work locals tucked themselves in.
She couldn't have slept if she'd tried; Maven had gotten ahold of some e-zed, a lovely chemical mixture whose origin Katherine had paid no attention to as she let the tablet dissolve on her tongue. Bren was the Responsible Upstanding one, but he had ignored her cough-ahem activities and her teasing that he was up past his beddy-by. Maven had pouted when she left, but Bren wouldn't have come looking for her for nothing.
He leaned forward, elbows to knees, propping up his chin. Whatever he was fidgeting about had to wait, apparently; she threw an arm over the back of the bench. He was like a stray cat sometimes: let the creature come to you and all that.
"There it is," he said, and Katherine returned her attention to the window. Despite browsing the specs and knowing the layers of plastic and whatnot between them and space were so thick a cruiser could ram it and not leave a dent, if it managed to get through the shields in the first place, having space so... close, so there, so obvious, made her a little nauseous. Minos lay between them and endless black, a blue and green marble so close yet so alien to Earth. The station currently orbited the dark side; city light dotted the surface as stars in the black.
Katherine squinted; a blue strip of light appeared at, from their perspective, the bottom of the planet. She couldn't tell what it was at first, some strange reflection or illusion -- until she realized they were watching the sunrise.
"There it is," she echoed, smiling to herself. They sat in silence, watching the sun -- Helios, of course, the earliest explorers had been a bit obsessed with thematic naming -- rise up, so to speak, a little yellow globe right in the center. "This is, well, beyond beautiful, but shouldn't you be here with a certain someone else?"
Bren shook his shoulders in a weird half shrug. "Well, it's tradition. We watched the sunset when we graduated, and again when we left Earth, so I felt, well, milestone marker. You know." He cleared his throat. "And we can't really do this at the wedding, I fear I would be a bit busy with said certain someone."
Katherine clapped him on the shoulder, grinning. "You asked!"
He flopped into the bench, grinning back. "She said yes. Well, clearly, otherwise I'd be, you know."
"A terrible mess. All over the place. Weeping under your bed. Bren!" She threw her arms around his shoulders. "You're getting married!"
"I am!" He hugged her back. "I am so bloody terrified, please help me."
She laughed. "Always."
auguris'verse: Universe Lost
Story: Sunrise
Colors: Transparent 14. Sunrise
Supplies and Styles: Pastels (friendship)
Word Count: 482
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mentions of drug-use.
Summary: Bren has something important to tell Katherine.
Katherine settled in next to Bren, leaving half a seat-space between them. Not else occupied this section of the observatory deck; Horizon never really slept, but by one am station time most of the off-work locals tucked themselves in.
She couldn't have slept if she'd tried; Maven had gotten ahold of some e-zed, a lovely chemical mixture whose origin Katherine had paid no attention to as she let the tablet dissolve on her tongue. Bren was the Responsible Upstanding one, but he had ignored her cough-ahem activities and her teasing that he was up past his beddy-by. Maven had pouted when she left, but Bren wouldn't have come looking for her for nothing.
He leaned forward, elbows to knees, propping up his chin. Whatever he was fidgeting about had to wait, apparently; she threw an arm over the back of the bench. He was like a stray cat sometimes: let the creature come to you and all that.
"There it is," he said, and Katherine returned her attention to the window. Despite browsing the specs and knowing the layers of plastic and whatnot between them and space were so thick a cruiser could ram it and not leave a dent, if it managed to get through the shields in the first place, having space so... close, so there, so obvious, made her a little nauseous. Minos lay between them and endless black, a blue and green marble so close yet so alien to Earth. The station currently orbited the dark side; city light dotted the surface as stars in the black.
Katherine squinted; a blue strip of light appeared at, from their perspective, the bottom of the planet. She couldn't tell what it was at first, some strange reflection or illusion -- until she realized they were watching the sunrise.
"There it is," she echoed, smiling to herself. They sat in silence, watching the sun -- Helios, of course, the earliest explorers had been a bit obsessed with thematic naming -- rise up, so to speak, a little yellow globe right in the center. "This is, well, beyond beautiful, but shouldn't you be here with a certain someone else?"
Bren shook his shoulders in a weird half shrug. "Well, it's tradition. We watched the sunset when we graduated, and again when we left Earth, so I felt, well, milestone marker. You know." He cleared his throat. "And we can't really do this at the wedding, I fear I would be a bit busy with said certain someone."
Katherine clapped him on the shoulder, grinning. "You asked!"
He flopped into the bench, grinning back. "She said yes. Well, clearly, otherwise I'd be, you know."
"A terrible mess. All over the place. Weeping under your bed. Bren!" She threw her arms around his shoulders. "You're getting married!"
"I am!" He hugged her back. "I am so bloody terrified, please help me."
She laughed. "Always."