Disclaimer: I do not own Loveless or any of its characters.
Author's Note: This fanfic is an Episode 13-wannabe. I've been frustrated of the last episode because as the title describes it, it's Endless. So this is my version of what will happen after Episode 12. It is supposed to be a one-shot fic but I'm too lazy to type the whole story at once…
Soubi…
If Seimei is alive…
And he ordered you to kill me…
…would you do it?
Probably
"Based on the previous killings and your son's murder, the killer must be someone Ritsuka knows…"
Ritsuka tuned out the police investigator's voice and stared outside the office window watching as the snow falls. The time when he had the nightmare of the people he had grown to like, he felt grief and pain. But now…
Shuiko-san...
Yayoi-kun…
Shinonome-san…
Yuiko-chan...
They are all dead. Their bodies found this morning at the school.
Yet he felt numb. He felt nothing. Except for the heaviness that oddly sat on his chest.
Someone tapped on his shoulder and Ritsuka turned to look at the investigator's sympathetic face. He remembered the face but not the name. It was the same investigator holding Seimei's case. There was something odd on his voice as he spoke.
"Aoyagi-kun, I've been trying to talk to you"
And Ritsuka realized it was tinged with pity.
"I'm sorry, sir."
"It's okay. I just wanted to ask you something. I know you might not feel like answering them, but it is necessary." The investigator's look was asking for permission.
Ritsuka nodded. He fought the urge to let his mind wander again and tried to focus on the man's voice.
"Do you have any idea who might be behind this? Anyone holding a grudge against you?"
The boy faced town staring at the floor. His cat's ears drooping and his tail swishing rhythmically against the chair's legs. To the man, the boy appeared brooding about the question. To Ritsuka, he just couldn't lie at the man's face. Because lie, was what he was about to do.
Ritsuka shook his head in denial.
"Are you sure? Think again, Aoyagi-kun."
This time he looked straight at the man's eyes. "None, sir"
The man turned to his mother speaking to her. Ritsuka heard some words like "police guarding you until the case is solved" before he tuned everything out again. He looked back outside the window. The snow had ceased falling leaving the ground covered with it.
His heart felt so cold. So heavy. Like a block of ice. Like it was covered with snow.
Ritsuka hadn't been aware of when they had left the police station. He hadn't been aware of when and how they got home. What he only knew, was that his mother was holding his hand as he goes through the motion. Her mother's hand was warm. As if guiding him through the coldness and darkness of his world.
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