Leaving the Nest
So this is a Pacific Rim based AU that I have with @blametheeditor, but it has little to no proper relation to the movies other than Jaegers and Kaiju. Doesn’t follow the rules of the movie, much of the lore is changed so don’t come at me. Damnual and James belong to Blame.
I promise, I’m not obsessed with aesthetic window pictures /or/ of tiny Jewel, I’ll post proper same size Sewel eventually.
Story: Non-canon. In our universe, Kaiju are a giant species mutated by humans, of which Seto is a part of (although he isn’t a mut). Despite first being feared by a team of pilots who kill Jaegers in their surroundings, he grows lose to them. But due to concerns and restrictions from the head of their complex, the is no longer allowed to have any sort of close relationships with his comrades, including a new girlfriend, Jewel. Unable to take knowing he could hurt them all physically, and hurt their dynamic as a team, he decides to leave.
Jewel feels her heart sting as she sees Seto pulling away from James, racing up to nearly throw herself out of the window into the cold night, hand closing around the fringe that fell over his nose and latching onto it.
“WAIT!”
His large brown eyes fix on her, blinking slightly before she hears the soft thuds of his shifting feet and he looms closer, brows twitching as he watches her closely. Scans the desperate expression, small and shadowed as he blocks any light from the crescent moon, but as beautiful as the last time they were allowed to meet. The time when she had left him with the same tears in her eyes, after raising her voice at him out of a desperate need for relief, then hiding from him despite everything that had happened.
The giant kneels before her, pressing his forehead to the exterior wall of the complex as tears build.
James and Damnual can sense the energy in the air, take the folded note as tall as the 6-foot teenager, and leave to sit silently in the hallway and read. They had said their goodbyes, and they too had cried – Damnual more than James – but they did. For they would miss the man to which they had devoted much of their time, the one that the teenager proudly called his Jaeger; the one that James knew as a man and through Jewel’s thoughts.
Their Seto was leaving...and it broke their heart. No more trips to the outside world, no more standing taller than a Jaeger yet free from the world, no more rumbling laughter as Gabriel galloped around them, no more cold nightmares warmed by the kindness of a giant. But hopefully, they could live out his beliefs, try and connect with the kaiju, find a better future and a cure for their kind.
But James knows well enough that for the two entwined in romance, it was different. They deserve their privacy
The woman doesn’t know what to do, doesn’t know who should speak first when they hadn’t spoken in days. Days of longing to be near him again. The irony is that the words lodged inside her throat as she stands inside the shadow, staring into his pained expression.
Jewel could only lean into the bridge of his nose and rest her head there as she once did, hand running over the warm skin as tears burn her eyes and nose.
“D-Don’t go...” She chokes out, fingers clenching even if there is nothing to grab. “Don’t leave me.”
“I have to. To travel space is my duty, searching for any remaining members of my kind.”
Seto replies, voice wavering slightly from the usual as he presses his nose closer even though they’re already together, needing to feel Jewel’s presence against him after so long. Feel the only hands he would let touch him in this way send tingles up his spine as he finally feels complete.
And yet, he’s leaving.
As she hears her worst fears spoken from the voice of her love, the pilot begins to break down, her chest hiccupping as tears flow and sobs escape from her like quiet cries for help. She can’t remember the last time she cried like this over a man, she was aloof when it came to her past relationships, but Seto was different. He was kinder, more resourceful, protective and strong in himself, but not too temperamental. He was like her soul mate, and you can’t let them go!
“Seto...we need you to be here. I-I-I need you, a,a,and if you’re gone...
“It w-won’t be the same.”
Seto can’t just leave her hanging half out a window, her tears wetting his nose until he pulls away; the space left quickly filled by his gentle grasp curling around her shaking back. His palm coming beneath her legs and holding her weight inside a cup as he wipes the tears with the back of his finger, murmuring quiet apologies to her. Because it hurt to see her crying, not knowing how to truly comfort her when he was the cause of her pain. The giant’s hands curled closer, leaving her curled in a loose ball inside his warm grasp, arms wrapped about his digits as she leans her head into the pad of his thumb.
“Shh, shh. I’m here, Jewel. I never meant to fall in love, but I’m glad I did.”
“Then why are you leaving me?” Jewel asks brokenly, craning her neck to look up to him and see the tears staining his cheeks, immediately shrinking back into the crowded fingers. “I-I’m sorry, I...I know this is hard on you too..”
“I can’t stay here, where I can see you yet not truly show my affection. Knowing that I might endanger your life and the life of our friends.”
The human gasps to herself as his hands suddenly rise up, tipping back into the curves of his hand as the fingers shift underneath her, seemingly nervous as she sits before his mouth. His head is turned to the side, exposing the moon’s light to his features towering overhead at an extreme angle. This was close as she’d put herself to his face in a long time, and it still brought back the wonderful chills of the first time they’d spent together.
“So I leave you with this. And pray you will remember me by it.”
Jewel’s eyes widen as a hand cups her back and prevents her from pulling back, his lips hesitating for a moment to let his breath shift around her, before a passionately pressed kiss smothers her from her head to her chest. Her breath is stolen from her as she has no choice but to return the loving embrace with as much as she can offer, while Seto feels everything inside him unwind, every word he regretted telling her summed up in one kiss. One she’s determined to keep for her. A spark of violet light emits from the giant’s fingertip, wrapping around her wrist before sinking in, pulsing their heartbeat into her skin. The record of a memory.
And then it’s done, and she’s released into the cold air and delicately set down out of the hands that make her feel weightless. Magenta eyes glistening with tears as he steps back from her into shadow, his hands pressing into the wall surrounding her window to help him stand
“Seto...I will always love you...g-g-goodbye.
Gabriel chirrs his own sad goodbye as he’s called back from where he gave them space, perching on his father’s shoulder as he wipes his eyes and gives a deep sigh before he leans into the wall again so his face sits tens of feet straight up.
“Until we meet again.”
He rumbles, with a fond stroke of her side.
A shock runs through Jewel as she finally understands. Understands the ingrained feeling of being protected that came from a Jaeger standing as tall as a tree, leaving her like a bug at his feet. But before she can tell him to return.
To kiss her again.
To take her with him.
He’s fallen into the stars.
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