melodiesoflife | Event || The New Year

Event || The New Year

Characters: Anyone!
Where: The Enterprise.
When: The Night from December 31st to January 1st.
Summary: A Ball aboard the Enterprise, for well-dressed (mostly) Heroes of Light and their friends who want to dance and (especially) eat for free.
Warning: Nothing.

While the passing from a year to another isn't as big of an event as the Starlight Celebration, it is no reason to pass up an ocasion to celebrate and have fun. There are fireworks in all major cities and various activities to enjoy. Noticeably, there are gatherings of people in Aqures Ixen and Trano Golsaucia in particular, if only to conclude what is one of the most celebrated week in the year, and wish to each other the best possible year to come-- Though most people are worried about what's to come soon. After all, the end might be nigh with the Calamity about to take over the planet...

To celebrate this, the Heroes of Light have all been invited to stay aboard the Enterprise for a particularly prestigious and animated Ball. Indeed, the Enterprise will from Aqures Ixen and go all the way to Mysidia at midnight-- This way, New Year is going to last even longer than normal thanks to the magic of timezones.

There are tables with foods for everyone to eat and of course, music for people to dance together if they so wish. There is also a consequent number of chairs lined up, for all those who refuse to dance or are too awkward to do so.

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At the very least, Sephiroth knew Terra well enough to appreciate that she knew even less of figuring out emotions and feelings than he did. Where he'd been suppressing his own - as he had always been so good at- at least he had enough experience to know that he did feel them.

It was for that reason that he just stood there and listened as Terra found her words, not taking his eyes from hers and -though it wasn't easy with his could-be stern expressions- attempting to seem encouraging, or at least attentive. Opening up so far wasn't something Sephiroth was sure if he were quite ready for, but it was as if his heart were starting to scream at his head; just for him to let go of all the apprehension finally. Terra had been there, had seen him at his lowest and she was still there...and if implications made sense, based on what she said, she wasn't about to leave his side.

"I guess I-" He only broke eye contact with her a moment, to double check that there weren't anyone else in the hallway or anywhere that he could heard them; before slowly dragging his gaze across the space between them and back to her face. Carefully choosing his words. "-I've been apprehensive too."

"Whether it be through wishful thinking, or my own opportunism. I didn't want to ruin-"

Sephiroth blew a forceful breath out between them, trying to gain a foothold as he struggled over how to just start to begin to express his own feelings on the close friendship he and Terra had cultivated to this point. A moment later, he finished, and it all came together in one small comment.

"-I'm terribly good at breaking things. Sometimes even just in trying to protect them."

Terra shook her head feeling her heart slowly lift and soar. She hadn't ever felt this way before and she began to question her ability to contain it. Like Sephiroth she's always kept a careful control over her emotions and actions. She didn't feel like she could do that now.

"I won't break." Her smile widened and a soft, yet strong, voice echoed from her lips. "I want to protect you too." In this case it might be in a metaphorical sense but she knew that he'd understand. She wasn't going to leave or abandon him and she didn't want to hurt him.

"So nothing is ruined." She confirmed the last comment softly as if to ease any trouble his heart might feel. It was a little repetitive which was against Terra's usual speak patterns but she didn't care. She wanted to state everything plainly.

Terra, for her part in all this, had no idea what to do next. She confessed how she felt and for the moment it felt like she could runs a thousand miles and never get tired. Her cheeks were flushed and a strange bubbly feeling rose in her chest. She want to hug him or kiss him or something; she couldn't figure out all the feelings that flooded against her.

Sephiroth had been even more careful with his control, where he had relaxed a little more around Terra recently, after the slip up of his at the Starlight Celebration. It wasn't a case of being able to contain how he felt, it was more a case of having to lest he drive even more of an awkward wedge between the two of them. Never mind how right that fleeting kiss had felt.

He brought his bandaged hand forwards and rubbed at the inside of his palm with the opposite thumb. It probably wasn't a bad idea to come back to his cabin and get the dressing changed, anyway, being as it was starting to look a little ragged at the edges. Typical Sephiroth in not laying off just because of a few cuts across his hand. His eyes were all for Terra though, in a moment which seemed to go on forever.

He wanted to believe her. A corner of his heart clenched in on itself at the idea that there would always be someone there for him, who's life he just couldn't wreck with his own mistakes. But he was much too mature to think that it was really possible.

"Please." Sephiroth took a step closer to Terra, stretching out his good hand to rest on the side of her shoulder while he searched her eyes. They seemed to glisten brightly with hope, but he didn't want to lead her on when life inevitably would dull it in one way or another. It was only a matter of time. "Don't say that."

"Even the best intentions, the most perfect of circumstances, can be destroyed with no warning at all...sometimes by complete accident. I-"

"-I care about you too much, for that."

While Terra realized the truth of his words they hurt. It felt like daggers digging into her chest and then twisting in a slow painful circle. She inhaled a breath of cool air letting the cold sting keep in thoughts in order. She didn’t want to lose herself to her emotions now. Her head bounced once in a nod to signal that she understood however her words continue in their hopeful tone.

“I care about you too.” Her tone was soft but no less true.

“I know that nothing can last forever, we don’t even know how long we’ll be here…” One day she might have to go home to the world that’s rejected her. “…but I want right now. I want to be happy.” Terra didn’t care if it was selfish. “With you.”

As she saw it, Sephiroth was the only one who could do this and she didn’t want to lose that: what they had or what they could be.

“Can I Have right now?”

Sephiroth would have to go a long way to adjust his lifetime attitude when it came to being a realist. Months ago he'd have dismissed the notion of even having such intense feelings for another person develop in him, out of the simple fact that he just didn't really believe in them. His mind had forever been closed to even allowing himself to forge friendships, never mind something altogether more precious as he was now starting to appreciate this particular relationship being.

There was so much emotion, so many words left unspoken but they blazed behind his sharp light-green gaze, nevertheless, in which the slits had shrunk to their smallest.

Sephiroth was left blinking down at Terra in the wake of her words, trying to control a renewed rush of something that wanted to come swelling up and out of his chest; it should have been sickening, but it was altogether too warm for that. He flexed his grip around her shoulder eventually and discreetly bit at the inside corner of his mouth.

It was a gesture not many people picked up on, but likely something Terra had seen a thousand times when he were lost for words, or even thoughts. She was right; their time here on Crystallis was finite. They had no idea how long they'd remain here, or what might happen at the end of it all. Sephiroth found himself reminded of an attitude that others had encouraged him to adopt; but the question was, if he was really willing to scale his vision of the world down in such a way. A shorter-term focus, an infinitely more personable one, rather than having a goal in the end-game all the time and steaming on towards it.

"You already have my..." The edges of stern, almond shaped eyes softened. It was almost as if tears might well up, if he'd only let them. "...right now."

The grip on her shoulder shuddered a little, and then Sephiroth took that tiny step forwards to draw Terra into a hug.

Terra felt a mixture of surprise and warmth as Sephiroth pulled her close. Her arms wrapped around his waist and she pressed her head against his chest inhaling the scent that she's come to associate with Sephiroth. She felt herself smiling against his chest, the beads of water at her eyes falling down her cheeks in two silent streaks as a completely foreign feeling rose in her chest.

She wasn't just happy, it was more than that and it wasn't something she could explain in words. Her arms tightened around Sephiroth and she could feel their heart beats, both racing frantically in their chests.

"Thank you." She whispered softly against his chest.

The words didn't seem like enough but it was the only thing she thought to say. She was no longer aware of where they were standing, her long white dress rustled and shifted as she let herself rest against him.

Not that she could have resisted much if he'd really pulled at her, but Sephiroth was relieved that Terra hadn't hesitated as he'd stepped closer just...to hold her. A defiant, rushed thudding in the top of his chest was forever on tenterhooks and apprehensively expecting her to do just that.

But she didn't and it seemed, as she settled the side of her face against the dark fabric of the freshly-pressed shirt, that Sephiroth too just seemed to settle around her. His arms drew themselves carefully around her shoulders, a few strands of longer silver hair within his bangs just coming to rest against her bare skin as he dipped his head down; pressing the side of his chin against the side of her head a little and taking a deep scent in of the already-familiar way her clean hair smelled. Except this time it wasn't just to be appreciated in passing and it seemed to cling to his racing heartbeat and make it keep up the pace.

Sephiroth was careful in the way he breathed while they remained locked in that long moment. He didn't want to startle Terra, nor wake up if this was in fact a dream. Eventually he held her a little tighter, once he was certain she wasn't about to step away.

"I should be thanking you." The words, reverberated through his chords at closer proximity sounded deeper than they might usually. "For still being there, and putting up with all of it."

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Event || The New Year

Confessing? Yes, no....almost? /facepalm

Confessing? Yes!

Confessing? Yes!

Confessing? Yes!

'Can I have right now?' - this should be their motto, or something! ;__;

Yes! All they have is now. >.<

That's gotta be a song, somewhere!!