Hi! Just a couple of notes: the text within /.../ is

subconscious thought, and the text within (...) is,

well, less subconcious thought. ^_^;; Anyways, hope

you like it!

~Kary

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Dependence/Withdrawal

/"This is your heaven, so if you die, I will kill

you."/

It's fucking cold out, and Kubo-chan's late.

I pull my jacket tighter around me. My breath makes

darkened wisps in the air, snaking up towards the sky

before disappearing. Damn smoke-breath. It's like my

damn memory--dark and cloudy and completely

untouchable. Try to grab it, and it dissipates like

Kubo-chan's smoke into no more than a stink in the

air.

It's seriously weird shit, I tell you. And it's

fucking cold out.

The shower's sometimes like the cold. When I'm alone

and when the steam rises it's like part of me

disappears, melts into the steam and rises up with it,

only to get sucked away by the fan. But the shower's

better than the cold, 'cause sometimes things come out

of its steamy smoke, like Kubo-chan doing the damn

laundry. And when that happens I like the shower,

'cause though I can't catch my old memories, new ones

come up to fill my head instead. Like...

(...sweltering heat. I can feel his hands. His breath

tickles the back of my neck. So close. It's so hot...)

Dammit. Where is he? (I want...)

/At first it was just a bright room and a warm bed.

Soft clothes. Curry and a dry place to sleep. But

later, it was a body to hold onto at night. Warmth to

curl up with in the dark. A reminder that I'm still

here, and that even if I can't find my past I've found

something.

Kubo-chan, I am what you've made me. You're all that I

remember./

The wind picks up, gagging me with my scarf. It's even

colder than it was before.

(You said: "Dying is an art, and I'd do it

exceptionally well. I'd do it to feel real."

Kubo-chan...

Don't you dare. If you do it I'll damn well kill you.)

Damn. Kubo-chan, where the hell are you?

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Author's note: Apologies to Sylvia Plath for taking

and distorting one of her lines and to Minekura for

taking and distorting one of her characters... O_o