Hare and Hatter; The Talk; Firing One

[ardwynna]

Title: Hare and Hatter
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Cid, Barret, Marlene.
Team: SOLDIER
Prompt: Barret Wallace
Word Count: 100
Rating: G

Cid took a step back, double-checking what he thought he had seen in his peripheral vision. Barret was at a low, lace-covered table, on a little chair that didn’t look like it should hold his weight. Marlene passed him a tray of cookies and served some up for her moogle toys. Cid scratched his head. “Barret, what are you doing?”

“I’m at a tea party, foo’. What’s it look like?” Barret lifted a tiny pink teacup in his good hand, pinkie out. “You want in?”

Cid set his spear up against the wall. “Sure, why not.” Marlene made good tea.


Title: The Talk
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Barret, Marlene.
Team: SOLDIER
Prompt: Barret Wallace
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG

“So, there are differences between one and the other and those differences are what make boys, boys, and girls, girls.” Barret cleared his throat.

“A penis, Dad?”

“What?”

Marlene shrugged. “I’ve seen Denzel’s when he forgot to lock the bathroom door. Cloud’s too. One time he spilled hot coffee on his lap and had to yank everything off before he got burned.”

“You seen ‘em.” Barret went numb.

“Yep. How old do boys have to get before they start growing hair there?”

Barret stood. “Tell you what, Marlene. I’ll tell you when I’m done having a little talk with Cloud.”


Title: Firing One
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Barret
Team: SOLDIER
Contents: Self-love
Prompt: Barret Wallace
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG-13

After the operation, Barret had plenty to occupy his time. There was Marlene to see about. His clumsy left hand learned the work of two.

There was physical therapy for the new arm. His body had to adjust to the weight of a metal gun. The rest of him needed training too, to make up for the imbalance of the burden on one side. It was some time before he had the energy, even in half-sleep, to consider more personal needs.

He considered it a stroke of luck that he hadn’t shot his balls off the first time he tried.

Comments

[megpie71]

I suspect that Tifa was very firm with Barrett about him giving Marlene The Talk, because while she was more than capable of doing so, and probably better set up for dealing with it than Barrett was, she's also fairly firm about Barrett not ducking out of the hard bits of parenting. Besides, she's already gone through the fun of giving Denzel The Talk (because we all know Cloud's reaction would be to blush bright red, and immediately remember some urgent deliveries in Wutai, Nibelheim, Cosmo Canyon, Gongaga and Icicle Inn which needed doing Right Now, sorry, not gonna be back for a couple of months) and explaining puberty as it all pertains to boys (with all the absolute lack of first-hand knowledge she has there). Fortunately Denzel was smart enough to know not to ask the embarrassing questions on a night when the Turks were visiting the bar, because while he's a curious kid, he also has a well-developed instinct for self-preservation, and knows asking either Cloud or Tifa about these sorts of things when Reno is in earshot is basically a fancy version of a suicide note.

I like the first one for Cid's nonchalance about being invited to the dollies tea-party, and his reason for accepting. Of course he's willing to take tea with Marlene's dolls and her dad - good tea is good tea.

[ardwynna]

Tifa has her hands full with two man-cubs in the house, one of them drastically overgrown at that. Barret can darn well handle his own but he'll let Tifa deal with the bra shopping.

The sight of a big guy like Barret successfully sitting in a kiddy chair would make anybody pause, but once Cid processed all that, tea is tea.

[yuuzaisha]

This is gold! I love it

[white_jenna]

:D Really like these.