Title: Fall To Black
Category: Kingdom Hearts, AU, Historical, Romance/Tragedy/Angst
Rating: M
Pairing(s): Vexen x Marluxia
Summary: Mid 1400's. The Black Death is ravaging the towns. Amongst all the horror, love is blossoming. But, how do you fall in love, when you both know you're going to die?
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters portrayed in this story, I wish I did, but sadly, I don't.
Author's Notes: I've tried to make this as Historically accurate as possible and tried to keep the characters as IC as possible, though there will probably be a lot of OCC moments. Rated M for language and graphic content. (nothing sexual, it would have made a mess of the plot)
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Vexen's
POV
A Doctors Journal pt. 1
Journal Entry #34
1465, November 2nd
It is with a high degree of sorrow that I report 8 more deaths in this week. This Black Death has spread further and faster then I could ever have expected or imagined and, the rat infestations are making things worse. They feast on the bodies of the poor that lay on the sides of the roads, lain there by families who could not afford to send for that dreaded horse and carriage to carry the bodies away. As a doctor, I feel helpless in this current situation, as I have yet been able to find a cure to help any of these people. They have started calling me and those like me, The Doctors of Death. I suppose it's appropriate, and this damned protective doctors wear does not make the matter better. But hopefully it will protect us until we can find a cure.
But in other tales, I have been assigned a new patient. A quiet botanist who has lost all in his family. I received the letter a few days ago, after I lost my last patient. Hopefully, I'll be able to heal the ailments that this young man has and, Lord be with me on this, may he not have the ill luck of the horrible fate of this Black Death. I do not want to see anymore bodies being piled onto that damned buggy, and may those be my last words.
Vexen Evensholde
Local Doctor/Scientist
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End Chapter Notes:
Please forgive me for the extreme shortness in this first chapter. The style of story I am currently authoring is requiring of it. I should have the second (and longer)chapter up soon. Please reveiw.