Tender Touches [Silent Hill, Claudia/Heather, PG]

[airborn.livejournal.com]

Title: Tender Touches
Author: airborn
Characters/Pairings: Claudia/Heather
Rating: PG
Prompt: Silent Hill, Claudia/Heather: Unexpected Tenderness – “You remember? When we were sisters?”
Warnings: None.
Word Count: 136


Her touch.


Claudia hoped for it the most in this despondent and tainted world.


The warm touch of the Holy Mother.


Perhaps too merciful and generous to a sinner like Claudia. With her oaths to Alessa broken. The pure hatred and disdain that was now directed towards her was evidence of such.


Soothing touch of her dear, sweet sister.


The familiar words and sickeningly-sweet names of endearment are contradicted by her scornful eyes and rusty-coloured stains of once-blood upon her features.


Her once ashen hair now a filthy blonde and fooled into undertaking such a miserable alias – assumingly pledged by that man; that Harry Mason.


Any touches she would possibly receive could only be those laced with bitter contradiction. And of blunt edges, burning bullets, and sweet, sweet blood.


Alessa’s touch.


Something Claudia could never have.

Comments

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

That's very lovely and evocative of her feelings of unworthiness and loss. I feel for Claudia here, actually.

[airborn.livejournal.com]

Heehee, thank you!
Claudia is just so intriguing and horribly sad in the game, I was really hoping I could try and stretch that a bit.

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

... oh goddamnit, now I feel kind of weepy. Which should be sad and tragic but it's a really, really good thing because it works so well with Claudia, she's such a broken and tragic character and the fact her sisterly relationship with Alessa was torn apart just hurts, because it extra, extra broke her and... man. I really feel for her here.

Thank you for the fic!

[airborn.livejournal.com]

Also the fact that no matter what, Alessa will never be the same Alessa she knew from before. It's just so obvious how much it affects her that she has to do all those things to her. Oh, Claudia... ;~;

Heehee, you're welcome!