Fandom: Tales of Symphonia
Pairing: Kratos x Anna
Theme set: Gamma
Rating: PG
Notes: Large amounts of spoilers for Tales of Symphonia. Whoot!

#01 - Ring
He's never given her one, and she doesn't expect one; he's too dedicated to think about silly things like ceremony.

#02 - Hero
"I'd want to be like Martel," she says slowly after being asked what mythological hero she wishes she was, and Kratos swears his heart stops beating.

#03 - Memory
There are too many things he failed to erase from his memory, and yet when she sleeps in his arms he can't help but forget.

#04 – Box
It is red as sunset and tied with pink ribbon, and as she boldly presents the gift to him he savours the feeling of her small hands in his.

#05 - Run
They've been on the run for so long he wonders when he first realized that he couldn't live without her.

#06 - Hurricane
He's like the eye of a hurricane to her- so utterly calm, despite all that life has thrown at him.

#07 - Wings
She had never seen them before this moment; in the hazy state of utter completion and love, his control slipped just enough to let them out- she is so mesmerized by their beauty and his angelic form that she forgets the pain and cries tears of joy.

#08 - Cold
He holds her shivering form safe from the bitter cold wind in his arms, and ponders how lovely it must be to feel.

#09 - Red
"Your hair," she says, to answer his unasked question, "is red as blood- that which keeps us alive."

#10 - Drink
She's never once seen him consume alcohol, and she supposes that he is afraid of losing his will and telling her all the things he wants her to know.

#11 – Midnight
When she woke up, the moon was high and the stars were blindingly brilliant; she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and once again found him wide awake, steadfastly protecting her from midnight's terrors.

#12 – Temptation
After four thousand years of enforced abstinence, he is finding it more and more difficult to resist the temptation to take her as hard and long as his angelic body can bear.

#13 - View
He took her to a cliff overlooking Luin once, and held her tight in his arms; the view shocked her breathless with its beauty and he whispered that he would give up his sight for her.

#14 - Music
One night, after a day of running and hiding more terrible than expected, he catches her singing a lullaby to her swollen midriff in a small and worried voice- he joins her with an angelic counterpart and they make beautiful music together.

#15 - Silk
She knows her skin is battered and broken from years of defiance at the Ranch, but to him it is smoother than Elven silk.

#16 - Cover
His hands cover her eyes perfectly when she loses her will to keep watching.

#17 - Promise
"If…my exsphere was removed, and I turned into a monster- promise, promise that you'd kill me."

#18 - Dream
He suddenly is gripped by a powerful feeling of loss when he realizes he has not dreamt in four thousand years, but reminds himself that perhaps it is more wonderful to be with her; awake, but dreaming.

#19 - Candle
They are huddled in the back warehouse of an inn with only a candle as a source of light as raiders from the Ranch sack the town in search for her; yet when she curls into him just so, the flickering light makes her strangely even more beautiful.

#20 - Talent
He is talented at sword and speech and making her forget her life at the Ranch, and she is talented at song and dance and making him forget four thousand years of sins.

#21 – Silence
Sometimes at night when they sit around the fire and all she can hear is nothing, his ears will be perked as he listens to the silence of their unborn child's heartbeat.

#22 - Journey
Someday, he knows, the journey will be over and he will have to return to Derris Kharlan- when he thinks of that day, he feels frightened.

#23 - Fire
He lights the fire for the night's meal with a gently upturned palm, and she can barely resist the urge to touch it.

#24 - Strength
She has taught him that power does not come with crystals or blind judgement; time and time again, he is humbled by the strength contained in her fragile body.

#25 - Mask
He pulls off his mask when they she rests in his arms and bares the human hidden within.

#26 - Ice
"Your eyes are an oxymoron, Kratos," she once said, boldly, brazenly- "The colour of earth, yet they're warm as ice."

#27 - Fall
After Martel's death, he swore he would not love anything- and four thousand years later, it took Anna to show him how hard he could fall.

#28 - Forgotten
It's gotten to the point where he's almost forgotten why they're in the run in the first place, for instead of thinking about Kvar and Mithos all he has time to think about is how much he loves her.

#29 - Dance
She was a born dancer, so skilled that every time she moved to imaginary music with him they fell even more for one another.

#30 - Body
She is like a pile of sticks, bony and brittle from unpleasant years at the Ranch; it's impossible for her to understand how someone like Kratos- lightly tanned with a swordsman's chest and a muscled stomach- could find her attractive.

#31 - Sacred
Her body is shaking in the aftermath of horrid pain, but tears stream down her face and she smiles for real when the nurse hands him the tiny bundle and whispers, "She's decided, Mister Kratos, to name him Lloyd- in the scriptures of the Goddess Martel, it means 'Sacred'."

#32 - Farewells
She waves farewell to the setting sun every night, and he has made a point of joining her.

#33 - World
It's such a nice escape from stuffy, recycled Derris-Kharlan to live off the good tidings of the land with her- when the sun shines freely and the grass hums a lullaby in the wind, he feels like they own the world together.

#34 - Formal
He showed his Cruxis uniform to her only once, and she grudgingly agreed that formal wear really did not suit him.

#35 - Fever
Lloyd is watching silently as Kratos changes the cloth on Anna's forehead yet again; just seeing her pale face so deeply red and listening to her laboured breathing- she's in so much pain- has pushed him over the edge, and despite everything that he is and once was he begins to pray to Martel.

#36 - Laugh
She's never heard him laugh before until Lloyd asked him if angels brought Mommy and Daddy together.

#37 - Lies
She told him once that the myth was that angels could not tell lies; he shook his head and told her that most angels had trouble telling the truth.

#38 - Forever
He would spend eternity with her if he could, but only angels live forever.

#39 - Overwhelmed
She had always pretended that she was strong, unyielding, untouchable- it made it that much more unbelievable every time she was completely overwhelmed by something as simple as the feeling of her hand in his.

#40 - Whisper
"Not in front of Lloyd," she whispers, as he makes to touch his lips to hers, "you know he imitates everything you do to me on Noishe."

#41 - Wait
She's only human, and sickly at that; despite the fact that Yggdrasill's chasing him now too, he waits up for her every time.

#42 - Talk
"We need to talk, Lloyd," he imagines himself saying, but the Sylvarant Tower of Salvation grows larger in the distance and he wonders how much it will hurt to lose her again.

#43 - Search
He's not sure what they're searching for, freedom or solace; when she has Lloyd in her arms and creeps into his bedroll, he thinks he's found both.

#44 - Hope
He has a beautiful wife and a three-year-old son- he wonders how long he can hold on to the fervent hope that everything will turn out all right.

#45 - Eclipse
The sickly shadowed sun is like a sign that Kvar is catching up with them.

#46 - Gravity
Their destinies were like tiny suns, pulling each other in until nobody could tell whose desires were whose; Mithos had once told him at length how Gnome pulls all objects towards the centre of the sundered planet, but the force between him and Anna was much stronger.

#47 - Highway
"Life is a one way road," she said once, "If you ever look back, Kratos, you're doing it wrong."

#48 - Unknown
Their future is completely unknown, and that is fine with her; she finds certainties boring, anyways.

#49 - Lock
He knew that if she would ever be taken from him, his heart would go back to the way it once was, so locked up and forgotten.

#50 - Breathe
With her last breath, the monster before him begs him to remember his promise- and that she loves him.