Drabble request four

[owlmoose]

Title: Breakfast
Fandom: FFX-2
Rating: PG-13
Set: Postgame
Spoilers: None
Pairings: Gippal/Baralai
Prompt: Baralai wakes up one morning to find a loaf of french bread in his bed. What happened? For iamleaper, who seems to enjoy stories involving Baralai and french bread.
Notes: 100-word drabble. No baked goods were harmed in the making of this story.

The sound of chewing woke me. Opening my eyes, I discovered a half-eaten loaf of french bread on the pillow, flakes of crust littering the sheets, and I lifted my head to glare at the other inhabitant of the bed.

"What?" Gippal said through his mouthful.

"You're making a mess."

"Sorry, 'Lai. Got hungry, needed an early breakfast." His eye twinkled. "You wore me out."

"Flatterer."

He grinned. "Want some?"

I plucked the loaf from his hand and set it on the bedside table. "I'd rather have something else."

He lowered his mouth to mine, all thoughts of food forgotten.

Comments

[yuna-flowering.livejournal.com]

Squee! :) I love well-written Gippalai. Very, very cute. I can just imagine it happening.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Thanks! This one was actually hard to write, but it was also fun. :)

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[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

This is the most provocative (no! not that way!) of the drabbles - I think. It genuinely packs an entire story into a hundred words. Well crafted!

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[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

not that way!

Well, but it is the only one that puts the characters in a bed. ;)

Thanks! I agree that, of this set, this story probably stands alone the best.

[mneme-forgets.livejournal.com]

That's very cute and very gippal. He would be thoughtless enough to eat half a loaf of bread in bed. *grins* And I just bet that is the sort of thing that would secretly drive Baralai mad, although he'd likely be too nice to actually mention how crazy it made him.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

he'd likely be too nice to actually mention how crazy it made him.

But Gippal knows anyway -- he sees the glare, and he loves knowing just how to push Baralai's buttons. ;)

These guys are fun to write. They're actually the only slash pairing I've ever written (hm, and both times in response to prompts provided by iamleaper). I like both characters a lot and they play so well off each other.

[iamleaper]

Perfect! I can just imagine Gippal's voice on that "What?" And I love the "all thoughts of food forgotten"... you really have a talent with these little drabbles, you know?

(And, for the record, I put the french bread in just about every request I make. If it's not french bread, it's someone else's pants. ;) Maybe you'll get that one next time!)

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. It was fun to write.

Given your request to hellbait on this meme, I suspected that the bread is something of a theme with you. At first I wondered if you were angling for a sequel! ;) I actually tried to work up something in that vein but I decided that the relationships there are much too complex to sum up in a hundred-word drabble.