Trees [Silent Hill Movie, Rose/Cybil, PG]

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Title: Trees
Author/Artist: rosehiptea
Rating: PG
Warnings: A little dark. I utterly failed to get anything like smut out of this. I apologize.
Word count: 312
Summary: Rose and Cybil try to remember what normal was like.
A/N: For the prompt: Silent Hill (movie), Cybil/Rose: protectiveness - "We can do this"



"On Sunday mornings Sharon crawls into bed with us, just for the warmth."

Rose and Cybil are huddled together in the back of a schoolroom, waiting for the nightmare to continue. She rests her head on Cybil's chest as she continues.

"Then I make scrambled eggs and we read the Sunday comics."

Rose's shirt is splattered with the blood of a nameless something, and Cybil's face is bruised and smeared with dirt.

"Sharon likes card games. I had to argue with Chris not to teach her to play poker."

At that point Rose buries her face in Cybil's neck and makes a sound like a sob. Cybil lifts her chin and looks into her eyes. "Shh... We'll find her; we'll make it through. We're in this together."

Rose's arm tightens around Cybil's waist. "What do you like about living here? In this part of West Virginia?" she asks.

"That's gotta be the country," says Cybil. "I can step outside and I'm practically in the woods. Green everywhere, and that pine smell, and birds. You should see it, Rose... You will see it." She strokes Rose's hair.

After a pause Cybil goes on. "My friends and me, we all go hiking. Some of them make a big deal, go out for days, weeks. The Appalachian Trail and all that. I just go out around here mostly. But I love the old forest, where the trees have been here so long."

"I'll never see green again, or another Sunday morning," says Rose. She tries to rise from the floor and Cybil puts one leg over hers to hold her down, and then hugs her tightly. "Just sit for a while, Rose. I can't face any more of what's out there right now and neither can you."

Rose lets her leg entwine with Cybil's and relaxes against her again.

"Tell me again about the trees..."

Comments

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Smut or no smut, that was still utterly lovely. Oh girls <3, I so wanted things to end better for them (even if I knew which of Cybil's endings from the first game they were likelier to take inspiration from) in the movie, and oh. Just, the desperate "Ok, tell me about something normal and not-jesus-what-the-hell-is-that-thing, and oh *girls*.

Thank you for this! :D

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much... I love their interactions in the movie, and brave Cybil and everything, but I wanted to write more of a small moment with them. I'm really glad you liked it!

[were-lemur.livejournal.com]

Should it be "Some of them make a big deal ... " ?

I love this. It's sweet and tender and determinedly hopeful. *ignores what actually ended up happening*

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Yes, it should. Thanks for catching it; I'll fix it.

And I'm really glad you liked it. I had to write it with some serious denial of what actually happened.

[aurevoirpeyton.livejournal.com]

augaushdkljas srsly, I patiently wait for femslashtoday to tell me that you've done some lovely Silent Hill ficlets <3<3<3 I looooove this pairing & you depict them so right.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'll have to write more of them then. Thank you so much, I'm really glad you liked it and this review made my day.

[ijemanja.livejournal.com]

Love this. Just gorgeous.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much. I enjoyed writing it.