Red Queen One-Shots

Light in your eyes

Warning: This is my crackship Farley x Ada aka Fada, but it's not a big thing between them yet. I think it's worth to read (for the angst) even without agreeing on the ship, but that's just me ... ;-)

As this is a w/w ship, there will be a lot of she/her pronouns. I hope I made everything clear, but if it's not, just ask.

I'd die for you.

It was an obvious thing to say. Diana Farley would do everything for her daughter so she might grow up in a better world than her parents did. Thus Farley continued to kill and risk her own life for the victory of the Scarlet Guard.

It was also a wrong thing.

Ruth Barrow reminded her everytime Farley left Clara in the care of her grandmother, as if she didn't know herself. She did know, while not minding Ruth's constant insisting either.

"Don't you dare let my grandchild grow up as an orphan, Diana Farley," Ruth would chide her when she took Clara into her arms and Farley would nod.

"I promise that I'll come back," she pledged. "I'll see you soon, dove," she then whispered to Clara, and turned around to take part in another confrontation with Silver warlords.

Farley didn't dare to tell Ruth about the letters she wrote for Clara in case she would not return, despite her promises. You could never know, not after what had happened to Shade. Not after what had almost happened to Mare. But she swore to herself she would read those letters to Clara herself one day, to show her how much she loved her - and to tell her about her father.

She wasn't going to let anyone forget who Shade Barrow had been, least of all their daughter or herself. But it was a strain, a sting in her heart, to be beholden to a dead man while desperately trying to live.

The colonel's questioning gaze was aimed at Farley for most of the meeting. She understood him, really, because the Guard's current strategy, her strategy, seemed strange enough for those that weren't told about it.

Her father kept insisting on involving the rebels in the battles - to not call them outright civil war - between the Lerolan-governed Delphie region and Maven in Archeon.

"It's the perfect chance to evacuate the technies in Gray Town," the colonel proposed. "With the industry in the Rift withholding ressources, Maven Calore cannot maintain the capitol. General," he addressed Farley and she still felt the amazement of hearing the colonel pleading to her.

But she merely cleared her throat. It wouldn't stop him for long, so she added, "we support the technie Reds with supplies. That must be enough, as we'll need the factories for our own plans. Just as the Lerolan Silvers can deal by themselves."

The colonel frowned, but he realized when he had to withdraw until later. Yet his stare lingered, he would not give up. Farley glared back for a moment before changing the topic. Next to her, Ada Wallace illustrated Farley's statements without a prompt. Ada's thinking was quick in more than one regard and Farley patted the other woman's thigh in thanks. Ada turned slighty to wink at her.

But inwardly, she sighed. All of this only because she had no clearance to tell the colonel about Davidson's plot to turn the Silvers against each other. It was well within Scarlet Guard practice to keep operations classified, but this still seemed stupid.

When she had to tell the colonel about Cal's acceptance to reclaim the throne of Norta, he looked like he was going to explode until he started to shout in frustration instead. Fortunately, he stopped after a few seconds, or Farley would've seriously considered shoving Clara into his arms, if only to see what would happen. He was very reluctant to touch his grandaughter, and a part of Farley was angry about that. He was one of the reasons why she brought the child to her meetings.