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FFIX: Five Times Beatrix Saves Garnet's Life, And One Time Garnet Saves Hers
Fandom: Final Fantasy IX
Pairing: None
Warnings: Angst
Rating: PG
Summary: Beatrix saves Garnet's life more than once. For![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sugartits.
As far as Garnet knows, Beatrix has always been there. Garnet doesn't remember the first time Beatrix saved her life, but it happened all the same. Beatrix was a guard at a banquet, and while her mother and father were busy entertaining a guest, Garnet -- a tiny girl then, barely three -- started choking on something she shouldn't have eaten. Everyone else watched aghast, but Beatrix calmly put down her sword, picked Garnet up, and proceeded to extract the offending object.
After that, all Garnet's attention is on Beatrix. And everyone else's is, too.
The next time Beatrix saves Garnet's life is many years later, because of course, her job isn't so much saving Garnet's life as protecting her from coming into dangerous situations in the first place. Around them both, the world goes mad: the eidolons are ripped from Garnet, Brahne is driven by Kuja, and Beatrix finally listens to the sensible part of her, the part that knew the right path all along.
After that, Garnet's life becomes a lot more dangerous. Beatrix is almost glad of that -- it gives her a purpose, someone she can protect, someone that she can pay her debt back to, over and over.
The third time Beatrix saves Garnet's life is not literal: she walks into the room to find Garnet crying. She's never pictured herself as the motherly type, but Garnet stands up and flung herself at her, and it's strangely easy to take Garnet in her arms and soothe her, stroke her hair, calm her down. Garnet doesn't say a word about Zidane, but Beatrix doesn't need to ask.
She kisses Garnet once, on the forehead, and tries to find the words to say everything will be alright. They don't come.
The fourth time... the fourth time Garnet is leaning out of the window, looking down at the ground. Beatrix is frightened, though she doesn't think her queen would be as selfish as to let herself fall, so when Garnet wavers, she takes her elbow and pulls her back. There is a look of despair on Garnet's face, her strength and determination laid temporarily aside.
"I wish he could come back," she says, softly.
Beatrix doesn't know what to say.
When Zidane does come back, Beatrix feels a little lost. Even considering Steiner's feelings, she wants to leave, to find somewhere of her own. Zidane will protect his queen now, after all.
But still she sees the attacker before anyone else does, before people are even sat down. She notes the strain on his face and the way he grips something under the table, and after five minutes of observing him, to be sure, she excuses herself from her seat at Garnet's side and slips round to him. She underestimates him a little -- his sword is out and he's leapt over the tables toward Garnet before she quite reaches him.
After that, there's no time for thought. Beatrix is as fast as him -- faster -- and she runs after him, intercepts him with a clash of steel on steel.
The sword slides down Beatrix's blade and sticks. So focused on that, on keeping the straining blades far from her queen, Beatrix doesn't notice the dagger thrust toward her side. If she did, she might have expected Zidane, sat at Garnet's side, to stop it.
But quicker than Zidane is Garnet herself, lunging forward with a knife of her own, the look in her eyes suddenly wilder and grimmer. A look befitting a warrior, Beatrix notes, somewhat dumbstruck, as Garnet disarms the attacker.
For a moment, their eyes meet. Garnet smiles at her, and Beatrix can't help but smile back.
Pairing: None
Warnings: Angst
Rating: PG
Summary: Beatrix saves Garnet's life more than once. For
sugartits.As far as Garnet knows, Beatrix has always been there. Garnet doesn't remember the first time Beatrix saved her life, but it happened all the same. Beatrix was a guard at a banquet, and while her mother and father were busy entertaining a guest, Garnet -- a tiny girl then, barely three -- started choking on something she shouldn't have eaten. Everyone else watched aghast, but Beatrix calmly put down her sword, picked Garnet up, and proceeded to extract the offending object.
After that, all Garnet's attention is on Beatrix. And everyone else's is, too.
The next time Beatrix saves Garnet's life is many years later, because of course, her job isn't so much saving Garnet's life as protecting her from coming into dangerous situations in the first place. Around them both, the world goes mad: the eidolons are ripped from Garnet, Brahne is driven by Kuja, and Beatrix finally listens to the sensible part of her, the part that knew the right path all along.
After that, Garnet's life becomes a lot more dangerous. Beatrix is almost glad of that -- it gives her a purpose, someone she can protect, someone that she can pay her debt back to, over and over.
The third time Beatrix saves Garnet's life is not literal: she walks into the room to find Garnet crying. She's never pictured herself as the motherly type, but Garnet stands up and flung herself at her, and it's strangely easy to take Garnet in her arms and soothe her, stroke her hair, calm her down. Garnet doesn't say a word about Zidane, but Beatrix doesn't need to ask.
She kisses Garnet once, on the forehead, and tries to find the words to say everything will be alright. They don't come.
The fourth time... the fourth time Garnet is leaning out of the window, looking down at the ground. Beatrix is frightened, though she doesn't think her queen would be as selfish as to let herself fall, so when Garnet wavers, she takes her elbow and pulls her back. There is a look of despair on Garnet's face, her strength and determination laid temporarily aside.
"I wish he could come back," she says, softly.
Beatrix doesn't know what to say.
When Zidane does come back, Beatrix feels a little lost. Even considering Steiner's feelings, she wants to leave, to find somewhere of her own. Zidane will protect his queen now, after all.
But still she sees the attacker before anyone else does, before people are even sat down. She notes the strain on his face and the way he grips something under the table, and after five minutes of observing him, to be sure, she excuses herself from her seat at Garnet's side and slips round to him. She underestimates him a little -- his sword is out and he's leapt over the tables toward Garnet before she quite reaches him.
After that, there's no time for thought. Beatrix is as fast as him -- faster -- and she runs after him, intercepts him with a clash of steel on steel.
The sword slides down Beatrix's blade and sticks. So focused on that, on keeping the straining blades far from her queen, Beatrix doesn't notice the dagger thrust toward her side. If she did, she might have expected Zidane, sat at Garnet's side, to stop it.
But quicker than Zidane is Garnet herself, lunging forward with a knife of her own, the look in her eyes suddenly wilder and grimmer. A look befitting a warrior, Beatrix notes, somewhat dumbstruck, as Garnet disarms the attacker.
For a moment, their eyes meet. Garnet smiles at her, and Beatrix can't help but smile back.
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