10th Combo - Video

[redcladidealist]

[He'd been thirsty when he'd woken up early in the morning. Still a little sleepy, the six year old got up to go look for Kratos. Things like cups and faucets were a little beyond his reach. Not without a chair to stand on, but it would be easier to ask his daddy's friend. Besides, a part of him just wanted to see the man again, a tangible presence connected to his father. Being around the man made him feel that much closer to seeing his daddy again.

Yawning, Lloyd put his hand on the door knob of his room-



-and freezes, eyes wide. That's not a six year old hand on the knob. He's not six. He's...

Seventeen.

Seventeen, but he'd been six again for a week. A week he remembers. Sheena and Rise, Dino, Colette, Saki and Zelos, Emil, Haseo, people he didn't even know...

Kratos.

Lloyd can feel the heat of embarrassment creeping up into his face. All the things he'd said and done... and with his friends. With Kratos.]

Aw man...

[A little while later, after he's snuck out of Kratos's house, trying not to wake the man up, the teenager turns his Dreamberry on. His face is still a shade of mortified red.]

Damn it, what does this place have against normal?

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[redcladidealist]

[Lloyd immediately becomes flustered at having to explain himself.] Because... because you were! You were kind of... um... You had a lot of emotion! It made you look... different. You were cute!

[Lloyd obviously fails with words.]

[popstar]

That wasn't cute. [She shakes her head furiously from side to side.] That wasn't cute at all!

[redcladidealist]

[Nice to know he can turn the tables on her.]

Well, I thought you were cute.

[Well, it's what he's thinking now. What he'd thought at the time was that Rise was weird and what was wrong with frogs?]

[popstar]

[For a moment, Rise's cheeks puff up and she presses his lips together in a pout.]

Geez, Lloyd! That wasn't cute [At least to her it wasn't.] and that's the end of this conversation.

[And click.]