Challenge 001 "All The Things They'll Never Know"
Title: All The Things They'll Never Know
Game:
Word Count: 363
Pairings/Characters: Gawain/Greil, Elena, Zelgius
Warnings: Really quite spoiler-y if you haven't beaten Radiant Dawn. If you haven't completed through Part Four: Endgame Part 2 or seen Ike's Memory Scene then thar be spoilers a-plenty! Ye be warned!
He loved her, not that he would ever admit it. She was the general’s wife and therefore so far off limits she might as well be on the moon.
He knew that he was found out when the general caught him looking at her, though. A raised eyebrow and a puzzled look was all it took for him to know that his secret was out. However the general never said a word to him, opting to keep his secret.
He treasured their kindness too much to make a play for her hand, instead cherishing each day that he could spend with them. He made it his mission to make sure that the general went home to her safe each night, and hoped, perhaps childishly so, that maybe they would name their son after him. That is, if they ever had a son. Every time he brought up the fact that they were childless, she would laugh, the general would get flustered, and the subject was dropped.
Still, even though he thought that he hid his affection for the general’s wife, rumors started to surface. He did spend quite a bit of time at their house, even when the general was away. She would come and talk to him before talking to her husband.
Only the three of them knew that she showed him kindness, what it was like to have family and feel loved. She looked at him as if he were her brother, and for her to even love him like that was more than enough.
When the general and his wife fled the country, the rumors flew with such ferocity he knew there was no way that he would every truly recover. Some blamed him, because they thought that the general had learned of his affection for his wife and had left due to the competition.
Please, as if he could ever complete with general for her affection.
But the uncertainty of his beloved general’s departure still ate at him, driving him to the brink of madness. When he suddenly left, the gossip didn’t die down until a full five years after – the likes of which Daein would never see again.
Game:
Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn
Word Count: 363
Pairings/Characters: Gawain/Greil, Elena, Zelgius
Warnings: Really quite spoiler-y if you haven't beaten Radiant Dawn. If you haven't completed through Part Four: Endgame Part 2 or seen Ike's Memory Scene then thar be spoilers a-plenty! Ye be warned!
He loved her, not that he would ever admit it. She was the general’s wife and therefore so far off limits she might as well be on the moon.
He knew that he was found out when the general caught him looking at her, though. A raised eyebrow and a puzzled look was all it took for him to know that his secret was out. However the general never said a word to him, opting to keep his secret.
He treasured their kindness too much to make a play for her hand, instead cherishing each day that he could spend with them. He made it his mission to make sure that the general went home to her safe each night, and hoped, perhaps childishly so, that maybe they would name their son after him. That is, if they ever had a son. Every time he brought up the fact that they were childless, she would laugh, the general would get flustered, and the subject was dropped.
Still, even though he thought that he hid his affection for the general’s wife, rumors started to surface. He did spend quite a bit of time at their house, even when the general was away. She would come and talk to him before talking to her husband.
Only the three of them knew that she showed him kindness, what it was like to have family and feel loved. She looked at him as if he were her brother, and for her to even love him like that was more than enough.
When the general and his wife fled the country, the rumors flew with such ferocity he knew there was no way that he would every truly recover. Some blamed him, because they thought that the general had learned of his affection for his wife and had left due to the competition.
Please, as if he could ever complete with general for her affection.
But the uncertainty of his beloved general’s departure still ate at him, driving him to the brink of madness. When he suddenly left, the gossip didn’t die down until a full five years after – the likes of which Daein would never see again.