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title: Love and Luck and Lightning
series: One Piece
day/theme: Jan. 07/"motionless at 9:10, freezing time when it happened"
characters: Sanji, Luffy
rating: PG
notes: title based on lyrics to "Patterns" by Chris Koza
>He will not ever forget that smile, the toothy grin stretching from ear to ear like a white half moon breaking through the lashing rain. So beautiful, so joyful; Sanji will always remember this as the moment he stared death helplessly in the teeth, in the end unable due to the stopping of his heart, rendering all motion impossible, to make even a gesture of stopping the sword bearing downwards to sever his Captain's head.
They say your life flashes before your eyes when you are about to die. Sanji saw it: his deep and fragile dreams captured in those glittering black eyes about to be dimmed forever.
And then - the lightning struck.
And now it is as if time has been suspended by a stroke of grace from some prankster god, every battle playing out in the moment between the smile and the lightning, the moment of knowing one's own death. Sanji prays for lightning to open those eyes, that he might reaffirm his own existence, but each time Luffy rushes in with black eyes shining and a smile stretching from ear to ear Sanji realizes that the moment has only carried over from the last time his boy-Captain raised a blood-matted head from the ground, and that the lightning has yet to come.
series: One Piece
day/theme: Jan. 07/"motionless at 9:10, freezing time when it happened"
characters: Sanji, Luffy
rating: PG
notes: title based on lyrics to "Patterns" by Chris Koza
>He will not ever forget that smile, the toothy grin stretching from ear to ear like a white half moon breaking through the lashing rain. So beautiful, so joyful; Sanji will always remember this as the moment he stared death helplessly in the teeth, in the end unable due to the stopping of his heart, rendering all motion impossible, to make even a gesture of stopping the sword bearing downwards to sever his Captain's head.
They say your life flashes before your eyes when you are about to die. Sanji saw it: his deep and fragile dreams captured in those glittering black eyes about to be dimmed forever.
And then - the lightning struck.
And now it is as if time has been suspended by a stroke of grace from some prankster god, every battle playing out in the moment between the smile and the lightning, the moment of knowing one's own death. Sanji prays for lightning to open those eyes, that he might reaffirm his own existence, but each time Luffy rushes in with black eyes shining and a smile stretching from ear to ear Sanji realizes that the moment has only carried over from the last time his boy-Captain raised a blood-matted head from the ground, and that the lightning has yet to come.