Author: Lipstickcat
Email: [email protected]
Fandom: FF8� but only just
Disclaimer: Kiros and Laguna don�t belong to me� but the rest do� Apart from a name that I borrowed�
Notes: 15 min fic. God, I laughed myself into pain writing this�
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I see you there. Safe and sound in your tank, your mermaid tail fluttering and twirling in the water. Don�t think you�ll always be safe, don�t you dare let your guard down. I�ll be waiting for the day he slips up, the day when this glass window isn�t enough to protect you.
Yes, that�s it. Eat. Fatten yourself up, forget about staying sleek and slender for him. You think he�ll still love you when you�re a big fat blob? Gobble up your food like it�s the only thing that makes you happy. Leap and splash your pretty tail, make him laugh as you greet him by soaking him. Talk to him, despite the fact he can�t understand you and you can�t understand him. Don�t you realise that you�re from different worlds?
You�re growing to big for that tank. Why don�t you come on out? I�ll give you a tour: See the sights of my teeth and tongue and belly.
I�ll tear through that gossamer tail of yours, shred it to rags, like an old forgotten web. I�ll sink my teeth into your flesh, feel your pale golden skin split asunder. I�ll taste you, and I�ll love you more than him because I�ll know all of you, inside out. I�ll love your organs and meat and blood. His love for you is superficial.
And then I�ll love your twin brother and sister, just the same. I�ll�
�Bad boy! Bad Tidus!� the underwater seascape is jerked away from his vision, the wind momentarily knocked out of him as hands wrap tightly, but carefully, around his waist. The world is tossed and turned in front of him briefly before he is placed over a familiar shoulder and carried off. He can see the tank getting further away. �Kiros! Your cat is scaring Angel and Treasure and Spot again!�
�Don�t be silly, Laguna,� the master sighs. �Tidus is a mouser, he has more pride than to chase your silly fish.�
Just you wait�.