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niki_chidon) wrote2009-01-02 06:00 am
niki_chidon) wrote2009-01-02 06:00 am
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Original fic: Sunshine~and~Rain (a Fairytale)
Title: Sunshine-and-Rain
Author: Niki
Notes: A Yule present I wrote to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
madhavkiradha. Reproduced here with her kind permission. Thank you to jane_elliot for betaing this, too:)
Once upon a time there was a little girl. Born to human parents, she was given a human name and a human faith. But she was not human, she was sunshine and rain, and therefore saw the world in the colours of the rainbow. She could never survive with a human name and a human faith, in the grey and brown world of humans.
The little girl grew and got brothers. They were human, and her all too human parents didn't always know what to do with little Sunshine-and-Rain and therefore spent more time with their human sons.
Sunshine-and-Rain grew up, looking for someone else who could see the world in the colours of the rainbow. She looked for a mate, a person to bind her soul with.
One day she met a human boy. He tried to listen to Sunshine-and-Rain when she talked about the world of colour but he was only human and saw the world in the same tones of grey and brown as her parents.
Thinking this was the closest she could get to her ideal mate, Sunshine-and-Rain pledged herself to the boy.
For years she kept her oath, trying to see the world as grey and brown and only their two little Flowers touched her heart with true colours. She also made friends who, though human, could occasionally glimpse at the colours she spoke of, some more than others.
Her Flowers grew, and like any children they broke her heart daily only to mend it the next moment. But the hurts the boy was inflicting on her unknowingly got worse and worse every year.
One day, many years from the day they had met, Sunshine-and-Rain had had enough. She told the boy they could not grow old together, that she was breaking her oath. After a moment the boy smiled to her with the smile of friendship that they had spent half their lives developing, and she knew he would be okay, and she would be okay, and their little Flowers would grow, loved by them both.
Sunshine-and-Rain began to build a life for herself and her Flowers with the help of her human family and friends. It was different, looking at the world without the oath weighing her down. It was like a veil had been lifted from around her heart and she could see what she hadn't with just her eyes.
There was a friend, a man, who had waited in silence because of her oath. But now she could see that he was not human after all! He was sunshine and rain, just like her, and could only see the world in the colours of the rainbow.
This time she did not need to hesitate when pledging her life; their hearts had already taken the oath and no human custom could make it stronger. He loved her Flowers as if they were his own, and she rejoiced in the thought that she could give him his own Flowers to love.
But like any fairytale, theirs was also filled with pain and hardships because Sunshine-and-Rain and her man lived in different kingdoms and it took many days of pain and longing to get them together.
But it happened.
And they lived happily ever after.
Author: Niki
Notes: A Yule present I wrote to
madhavkiradha. Reproduced here with her kind permission. Thank you to jane_elliot for betaing this, too:) Once upon a time there was a little girl. Born to human parents, she was given a human name and a human faith. But she was not human, she was sunshine and rain, and therefore saw the world in the colours of the rainbow. She could never survive with a human name and a human faith, in the grey and brown world of humans.
The little girl grew and got brothers. They were human, and her all too human parents didn't always know what to do with little Sunshine-and-Rain and therefore spent more time with their human sons.
Sunshine-and-Rain grew up, looking for someone else who could see the world in the colours of the rainbow. She looked for a mate, a person to bind her soul with.
One day she met a human boy. He tried to listen to Sunshine-and-Rain when she talked about the world of colour but he was only human and saw the world in the same tones of grey and brown as her parents.
Thinking this was the closest she could get to her ideal mate, Sunshine-and-Rain pledged herself to the boy.
For years she kept her oath, trying to see the world as grey and brown and only their two little Flowers touched her heart with true colours. She also made friends who, though human, could occasionally glimpse at the colours she spoke of, some more than others.
Her Flowers grew, and like any children they broke her heart daily only to mend it the next moment. But the hurts the boy was inflicting on her unknowingly got worse and worse every year.
One day, many years from the day they had met, Sunshine-and-Rain had had enough. She told the boy they could not grow old together, that she was breaking her oath. After a moment the boy smiled to her with the smile of friendship that they had spent half their lives developing, and she knew he would be okay, and she would be okay, and their little Flowers would grow, loved by them both.
Sunshine-and-Rain began to build a life for herself and her Flowers with the help of her human family and friends. It was different, looking at the world without the oath weighing her down. It was like a veil had been lifted from around her heart and she could see what she hadn't with just her eyes.
There was a friend, a man, who had waited in silence because of her oath. But now she could see that he was not human after all! He was sunshine and rain, just like her, and could only see the world in the colours of the rainbow.
This time she did not need to hesitate when pledging her life; their hearts had already taken the oath and no human custom could make it stronger. He loved her Flowers as if they were his own, and she rejoiced in the thought that she could give him his own Flowers to love.
But like any fairytale, theirs was also filled with pain and hardships because Sunshine-and-Rain and her man lived in different kingdoms and it took many days of pain and longing to get them together.
But it happened.
And they lived happily ever after.