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She reached up and snatched him down, making him yelp, then held him tightly to her chest. "You are in so much trouble."
 
She reached up and snatched him down, making him yelp, then held him tightly to her chest. "You are in so much trouble."
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=== 2/18/18 ===
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==== BSD: Safety Net - Chuuya + Dazai ====
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''Catch me.''
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A breath, poised on the edge of the precipice. To fall and to dream and to lose the ability to wake of himself.
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''Catch me, partner.''
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Corruption was a long, long fall into an abyss where he could not see the bottom. He saw the light in Dazai's eyes, the hopeless look of a man who was not desperate to find hope, and thought even his partner saw the death at the bottom of the fall.
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He fell, not flinging himself but simply letting go, hands outstretched and waiting in the darkness.
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Dazai, who couldn't be trusted, caught.
  
 
=== 2/19/18 ===
 
=== 2/19/18 ===

Revision as of 11:58, 19 February 2018


January

February

2/4/18

K: 100 words of knives - Fushimi/Yata

Sometimes Misaki counts his knives.

He doesn't touch them, Saruhiko notices, just drops his head down to note them under a piece of furniture or gently shakes the harness out of the laundry, numbers mouthed noiselessly. If a knife is missing, he shakes the uniform again.

It's not that Misaki wasn't there, didn't know Saruhiko always had knives, or even that he didn't benefit when they faced down an enemy together.

Sometimes, his fingers rub over a scar just below his right shoulder, something noiseless on his lips.

Saruhiko leans over, glad that Misaki allows him to kiss it away.

2/15/18

BSD: "Looking Good" - Dazai + Chuuya

"Are you even listening?" Chuuya demanded.

Dazai blinked. "I can't hear you from all the way down there, you're so short!"

He said it by rote, spewing the first common refrain between them he could say on autopilot, and it had the desired effect of distracting Chuuya from where Dazai's attention had really been.

Chuuya fumed and sputtered. Dazai went back to staring at the new choker that had shown up on his partner's neck.

"Your necklace makes you look like a girl." Dazai poked it.

Chuuya growled and swore.

Dazai smiled, knowing Chuuya would wear it forever from spite.

2/16/18

Riftspace: 100 words of whispers - Zana + Cor

The tiny boy hit Zana like a missile, waking her out of a sound sleep.

"Cor?" she demanded. "Little brother, what's wrong?"

He was trembling, clinging to her, arms around her waist tight enough to hurt. He shook his head but said nothing.

Zana thought about turning on the light but didn't. Instead she settled one hand on his back, the other his hair and stroked through the soft strands. "I'm here," she whispered softly.

Her shirt was damp from his face, and he shuddered at the words. "Promise you won't go away?"

Their mother had.

"Yes, Cor. I promise."

Riftspace: 100 words of screams - Zana + Cor

Raising a little boy as rambunctious and eager as Cor was an exercise in the fine art of not screaming.

Zana took another deep breath. The four-year-old clung to the top of a teetering bookcase. Ijeve was a space station, occasionally subject to turbulence, and furniture was lashed to walls. Only that had saved Cor from crashing to the floor with the books.

"Little brother—"

"I'm sorry!" He whined as he scrabbled to maintain his grip.

She reached up and snatched him down, making him yelp, then held him tightly to her chest. "You are in so much trouble."

2/18/18

BSD: Safety Net - Chuuya + Dazai

Catch me.

A breath, poised on the edge of the precipice. To fall and to dream and to lose the ability to wake of himself.

Catch me, partner.

Corruption was a long, long fall into an abyss where he could not see the bottom. He saw the light in Dazai's eyes, the hopeless look of a man who was not desperate to find hope, and thought even his partner saw the death at the bottom of the fall.

He fell, not flinging himself but simply letting go, hands outstretched and waiting in the darkness.

Dazai, who couldn't be trusted, caught.

2/19/18

Riftspace: letting go - Zana + Cor

"Big sister."

Cor hesitated, enough to make Zana stop pouring tea to narrow her eyes at him.

He squirmed despite being a teenager. "You don't—" He huffed, then forced the words out. "You don't have to stay here for me. Anymore."

She stopped breathing, topped off his cup, sat. A slow inhale of steam. "I'm head of this entire training program," she said quietly, sipped. "I'm not suffering on your account."

She'd promised not to leave him.

"Little brother." Zana waited for him to look up. "I'm fine."

Cor finally nodded. His shoulders relaxed as he reached for tea.