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Entry tags:
- edge,
- edge/rydia,
- ffiv,
- five times meme,
- kain,
- rosa,
- rydia,
- shortfic
FFIV: Five Times Edge Puts His Foot In His Mouth Where Rydia Is Concerned
Fandom: Final Fantasy IV
Pairing: Edge/Rydia
Warnings: None
Rating: PG
Summary: Edge fails at expressing his feelings. For![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lassarina.
Edge is pretty sure he's never going to get it right with Rydia, or about Rydia, or even just while he might vaguely be pondering the issue of Rydia while doing something else. She throws him all into confusion, until he wonders if he was ever as wonderful as he thought he was before he met her.
(Of course, he thinks: he was. He just isn't as wonderful as he'd like to be.)
The first time he messes up is when he accidentally calls the summoned monsters... well, monsters. In a not-nice way. She slaps him across the face and he manages to notice that she has a very effective slap, but fails at catching her hand and stopping her from stalking off.
"I'm sure your friends are all monsters too!" she says, for a parting shot, and Edge wonders if he actually has any friends these days.
When he tells Kain about it -- expecting some sympathy, if only because Kain wants him to go away -- he's half afraid Kain is going to poke him with that lance of his. He, apparently, heard that Rydia was crying some time earlier, and in connecting that with Edge because Edge opened his own mouth and landed him in it, decided that he was going to start being very hostile towards Edge.
(He didn't actually poke him with the lance, but the threat was most definitely there.)
And then, of course, he's driven to distraction by thoughts of her when he goes home. She's in the Land of Summoned Monsters, he's afraid she'll never come back, and Gramps is nagging at him (and nagging, and nagging) and asking what is the matter with him until he finally explodes. "I'm in love, Gramps! With Rydia!"
And there is a stunned silence and than Gramps turns and leaves the room. And Edge realises that probably wasn't the best time to inform the whole room that he's not interested in whatever match they've all been planning for him.
Kissing Rydia somehow proves to be a mistake, too. Oh, the actual kiss goes perfectly -- he gets her to dance with him this time, and then draws her out onto a balcony beneath the night sky, and all the while she lets him hold her hand. The kiss itself comes after some ten minutes of talking and a token wish on a falling star, and it's perfect and it's everything he dreamed of.
"I don't know what to say," Rydia says, softly, and there's a tremble in her voice and she trips over the words.
"Say it was amazing?" he suggests, all ego, and she gives him one disgusted look and sweeps off, and though he follows her all the way to her room, apologising all the way, he still gets the door shut in his face.
(Admittedly, he did fall silent every time they passed someone -- but that was tact and not ego.)
The next time he sees her, he's careful to plan everything in advance. He'll tell her how he feels, straight out, and no more mess. That's the theory, anyway. When he opens his mouth he discovers he's developed a habit of stammering over the words he's rehearsed almost too often. He hopes she'll take that as a sign of sincerity, but instead she takes it as mockery and storms off.
"If you want to win her heart," Rosa says, amused, "you could just try going to her now and apologising."
(And oh, how embarassing it is that Rosa saw him messing this up?)
"Maybe," he says, and wonders how it is that he's managed to land both feet in his mouth simultaneously every time, and how it is that Rosa still thinks he can rescue himself.
Pairing: Edge/Rydia
Warnings: None
Rating: PG
Summary: Edge fails at expressing his feelings. For
lassarina.Edge is pretty sure he's never going to get it right with Rydia, or about Rydia, or even just while he might vaguely be pondering the issue of Rydia while doing something else. She throws him all into confusion, until he wonders if he was ever as wonderful as he thought he was before he met her.
(Of course, he thinks: he was. He just isn't as wonderful as he'd like to be.)
The first time he messes up is when he accidentally calls the summoned monsters... well, monsters. In a not-nice way. She slaps him across the face and he manages to notice that she has a very effective slap, but fails at catching her hand and stopping her from stalking off.
"I'm sure your friends are all monsters too!" she says, for a parting shot, and Edge wonders if he actually has any friends these days.
When he tells Kain about it -- expecting some sympathy, if only because Kain wants him to go away -- he's half afraid Kain is going to poke him with that lance of his. He, apparently, heard that Rydia was crying some time earlier, and in connecting that with Edge because Edge opened his own mouth and landed him in it, decided that he was going to start being very hostile towards Edge.
(He didn't actually poke him with the lance, but the threat was most definitely there.)
And then, of course, he's driven to distraction by thoughts of her when he goes home. She's in the Land of Summoned Monsters, he's afraid she'll never come back, and Gramps is nagging at him (and nagging, and nagging) and asking what is the matter with him until he finally explodes. "I'm in love, Gramps! With Rydia!"
And there is a stunned silence and than Gramps turns and leaves the room. And Edge realises that probably wasn't the best time to inform the whole room that he's not interested in whatever match they've all been planning for him.
Kissing Rydia somehow proves to be a mistake, too. Oh, the actual kiss goes perfectly -- he gets her to dance with him this time, and then draws her out onto a balcony beneath the night sky, and all the while she lets him hold her hand. The kiss itself comes after some ten minutes of talking and a token wish on a falling star, and it's perfect and it's everything he dreamed of.
"I don't know what to say," Rydia says, softly, and there's a tremble in her voice and she trips over the words.
"Say it was amazing?" he suggests, all ego, and she gives him one disgusted look and sweeps off, and though he follows her all the way to her room, apologising all the way, he still gets the door shut in his face.
(Admittedly, he did fall silent every time they passed someone -- but that was tact and not ego.)
The next time he sees her, he's careful to plan everything in advance. He'll tell her how he feels, straight out, and no more mess. That's the theory, anyway. When he opens his mouth he discovers he's developed a habit of stammering over the words he's rehearsed almost too often. He hopes she'll take that as a sign of sincerity, but instead she takes it as mockery and storms off.
"If you want to win her heart," Rosa says, amused, "you could just try going to her now and apologising."
(And oh, how embarassing it is that Rosa saw him messing this up?)
"Maybe," he says, and wonders how it is that he's managed to land both feet in his mouth simultaneously every time, and how it is that Rosa still thinks he can rescue himself.
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