Saiyuki fic for Kintail - Jeep

[louiselux]

Happy birthday kintail! Hope you have a great day.

Here's a Jeep ficlet for you:



He couldn't remember being born, although his favourite one said he had hatched from an egg. Probably. He had no brothers or sisters and no parent. Much like the two he lived with. It was good, because it meant his favourite one belonged only to him. Apart from when the red one had him. Like now. He swooped and landed on the red one's shoulder and sank his claws in. He was deeply satisfied to see welling pinpricks of blood on bare skin.

'Lazy good for nothing man! You don't deserve him,' Jeep hissed in his ear. Then, when the red one cried out and batted him away wildly, 'I'm watching you. Don't forget it.'

'Ow! You little shit. Hakkai, stop laughing.'

'He's doing no real harm.'

'He's harming me.'

The red one scowled at him and Jeep easily dodged the object he flung his way, quickly identified as a sock. Graceless, Jeep thought. And undeserving. Anger inflamed his heart and he wished for bigger claws, for breath equal to a mighty gust of wind, so he could drive this wholly unsuitable red-eyed creature far away, to the other side of the world. And besides, it was dinnertime and he was hungry and his favourite one should get up and give him meat.

'You do know it's weird, letting him watch. It's like he gets-- overexcited or somethin'.'

'I don't let him do anything. He's very independent. Like someone else in this room I could mention. In fact... ' and his favourite one rolled the other over and pinned him down, which shut him up, Jeep was pleased to see. '... there are distinct similarities between the two of you.'

'He's nothing like me!' Jeep shouted, but they only glanced his way and then didn't take any further notice.

'Oh yeah?' and there was a meaning in their voices he couldn't grasp: affection and annoyance and a thread of hot excitement. 'There's one big difference, Hakkai.'

'Is that so?'

Jeep squinted at them. His favourite one made sounds like it hurt to touch, but it was plain he wanted to and liked it, even. The hot scent of salt and sweat made him crane closer, despite himself.

Maybe there was some good in it. Maybe stupid red-eyes wasn't all bad. Just mostly.

Jeep's neck drooped and he fluttered away to perch on the window ledge. Perhaps if he ignored them. He looked up at the sky and the scudding clouds and pressed his nose to the cold glass. It would be good to fly up there, to circle about and perhaps catch a fish from the river; maybe he could even follow that winding silver ribbon out to where-- to where-- he wasn't sure. Dimly he imagined a huge grey shimmering lake, bigger than any lake he'd ever seen and full of things to eat. It would be easy to fly away. It wasn't like he ever got fed on time.

Over his shoulder he could hear them murmuring and his favourite one was saying silly things that made no sense. The red one's fault. Jeep huffed out a breath and settled his head under his wing. Better to stay here and make sure nothing bad happened. After what seemed like a very long time they stopped making noise. He fluttered over and curled up at his favourite one's shoulder, snuffing in pleasure at the warm touch of his skin, then fell asleep and dreamed of fish.

Comments

[aqua-eyes.livejournal.com]

LOL! But cute too. ^___^

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thanks!