[identity profile] blackcatjiji.livejournal.com 2011-02-16 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Coming Back Around (http://endlessvideo.com/watch?v=p5KOERF_akc) by John Powell — How to Train Your Dragon Soundtrack

Jiji wasn't quite sure how it had come to this.

He didn't know much about anyone here, except that they were mostly human and all just a little on the wrong side of strange. What he did know is that when everything suddenly started falling down on him he had to run. Cats have a sixth sense for more than just long falls, and when the rumbling of the buildings caving in ended, he found himself alive. Lost and trembling in the gloomy crawlspace under a broad expanse of collapsed wall, but alive and unhurt. The human next to him wasn't quite so lucky; if he was breathing at all.

For a long time it was very quiet, and Jiji moved to sit beside him, edging closer and closer. Was he breathing? The armor and the helmet made it impossible to tell, but he was still warm and the cat had half dozed off, curled firmly in the curve between Vautie's neck and shoulder when he started to wake.

"Hey, are you okay?" Jiji mewed, soft and frightened.

"...Cat?" the voice was incredulous, as if he was having more trouble with the idea of Jiji being alive and here, than anything else.

"Yeah?"

Oh. Oh! the hugging, that was always...nice, in a weird, uncomfortable, unpleasant sort of fashion. Then the human was up and Jiji was free to trot along at his side as they both moved together towards the faint light at the far end. Jiji had thought he was sitting on the street and the building had fallen on him, but somehow they were atop an enormous pile of dead building, and what stood before them was a cliff.

"C'mon cat, let's go."

"Huh?" but Vaultie was holding out his hand so Jiji hopped up and together they climbed down. At first it was slow, and easy, but then his grip slipped and they were falling together through the sunlight. It was like flying all over again.



I don't even know if this makes sense and I hope you like it. I wrote it and it is for you.

[identity profile] kidfromthevault.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
b-baaw this is-- adorable and sad. And I love your style.