"I want to go home."
She grabbed the nurse's sleeve as she walked by the bed, stopping her and staring at her with brown eyes that were dead to the rest of the world. Again, she repeated her words, slower this time. "I want to go home." She released the nurse's sleeve, turning her gaze to the man standing beside the bed, her lips moving as she tried to speak, no sound coming out of her. Again she tried, her voice still as dead as ever, as if she were trying to shut herself out of her body, "Take me home, Tokino."
Did it hurt, he wondered? The place where her ears had once been. He'd been simply watching her for the past couple hours, not saying a single word, other than the occasional suggestion to a nurse or a doctor, but never to the girl sitting in the hospital bed. He could barely even look at her at this point, not without seeing the absence of the ears on her head, and the lack of hair that had used to drape over her thin shoulders. An ally did this, someone she and Tokino had both trusted. Mistakenly trusted, that was.
"I... Can't," He finally spoke to her, his voice nothing more than a pathetic whisper. He hadn't been there he hadn't been there he hadn't been there. He hadn't been there for her. He hadn't been there when she'd gone to where she and Aoyagi usually met, he hadn't been there when Akame attacked her, and he hadn't been there when he'd raped her, tearing away her innocence and taking something that had rightfully been hers and then tearing her pride from her, as well.
Just this one child.
"Tokino, please."
There was a quiver in her voice. So young. She was so small, her face still rounded with youth, her body underdeveloped, her head not even reaching Tokino's shoulders, even when she stood on tiptoe. Just this one child. That was all. He'd just wanted to protect this one child, and he hadn't been able to.
"Tokino, take me home!"
Her voice was more urgent, her hand snatching the fabric of his shirt, pulling and yanking. Her eyes still had no emotion, but in them were more tears. Emotionless, she claimed to be. No, she could just hide her emotions well. Her home life had forced her to learn such a skill.
"Take me home!"
"No."
He just wanted to be able to protect her, just this one little girl. And he'd failed. He could still see her, the tears falling from her eyes, her uniform shredded from sheer force, blood and semen dripping down her legs. No reason, she'd repeated again and again. No reason, no reason, no reason.
"Tokino!"
He took a step forward, wiping the tears from her brown eyes that began to fall.
"I can't."
And he'd never felt so much regret as he kissed her lips, muffling another cry and inevitable order.
Original prompt: 500 words, Tokino kissing Mikado
Turned out to be 499 words
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