Finally Meet You
A small scene from my runaway au that matches today's episodes...
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No, I wasn't watching Steven Universe when I wrote it. I don't know what you're talking about.
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“This is why you left… isn’t it?”
Sun stared at the wall, at all the photos she had taken of herself and her new friends, at the shelves filled with trinkets and plants and origami, at the posters of Wall-E and My Little Pony and Sailor Moon and other movies, bands, and shows they liked, at the artwork she either made herself or had commissioned, at the large trans and bi flags that were proudly hung up the wall.
Sun stared at the life Nexus had created in this small bunker underground and he was finally realizing something he should’ve already known from the beginning.
Nexus watched Sun carefully, watched how his eyes scanned over each frame and shelf in their small fear created home as she swallowed down hard on nothing.
“You were right to leave,” Sun said.
Nexus was caught by surprise at this and yet she remained unmoving, trying so hard to keep a blank expression despite her quivering lip.
Sun reached up toward one of the shelves, taking a small origami dragon made from purple paper off the wooden surface, and cradled it in his hands as if it were made of glass.
“I always thought you were failing us. But if you were happier here…maybe… we were failing you.”
Nexus couldn’t control the overwhelming emotions that washed over them like a flood. She turned her head away, refusing to look at Sun as tears began streaming uncontrollably down her face. She scolded herself mentally, almost begging herself to stop crying. Her trembling and sniffles didn’t go unnoticed.
“Nexus?”
“I hate you…” Nexus said in the smallest pathetic wobbled squeaky voice that she ever heard come out of her voice box.
It took a minute of them standing there in silence before one of them moved… and it was Sun that initiated the hug. Nexus found herself melting into it, almost desperately. She buried her face into his shoulder, clutching his vest with both hands like it would anchor her there. Sun held her like she was going to disappear again and that little paper dragon was still held carefully in his hand without an unwanted crease or crinkle.
“I’m so glad to finally meet you, Nexus.”
And she sobbed.
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