ficlet: Ghost in the Shell: SAC, post season one

[lyssie]

THERE ARE SPOILERS HERE. For everything up through the last episode of season one!

"I told you to live your own life," there's no apology in her tone.

Batou growls, leans in (he knows he'll pay for using his pysicality against her) and practically spits in her face, "You let me think you were dead!"

"If you had been more observant, you would have known I wasn't."

"Sorry, I'm not quite as cold-hearted as you," he snaps. But he has to, at some level, admit that she's right. If he'd noticed her wrist...

"You'll learn." A half-smile touches her lips, "Beside, you gave the situation the required verisimilitude. I've heard the Minister was impressed with the sorrow you expressed over the death of someone like me."

"Hey," he awkwardly shoves his hands in his pockets and shrugs. "You know me."

"Yes."

"So, hey... You wanna get a drink?"

"Mmm. Subtle." She shifts around him, jabbing an elbow into his side. "I suppose a cold-hearted bitch like me wouldn't mind a drink..."

"Yeah, about that, you know I didn't mean it."

"Maybe." Now the grin is sharp and amused, "And maybe you did."

Muttering, he slips an arm around her waist and tugs her closer. "Maybe."

-f-

Comments

[timjr.livejournal.com]

I said it before, and I say it again. Awesome.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Whee! Thank you =)

[vampirehunter85.livejournal.com]

...Awwww.

They're cute. And so totally canon.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Very cute. Like, Dom/Nate levels of cute, plus a nice bit of subtlety that makes me happy. (I like subtle, unless it's Sam and Kara, apparently)

Thanks. =)

[nique.livejournal.com]

Mwahahaha! Still love it. *pats them*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*bounces happily*

[nique.livejournal.com]

An appropriate action, given the above icon.

[ianmcin.livejournal.com]

Maybe I give Batou more acting ability credit than you do, but I thought he knew at the time that it wasn't really her who took that bullet in the penultimate episode.