General Introduction: This is where I'm going to collect my random Psyren ficlets for various challenges on Live Journal/requests. Some of the challenges have quite specific word counts, which I'm not sticking to quite so rigorously when I post them here. As a result, there may be some differences in the ficlets that appear on and those on the challenge community.
Most of the ficlets will be focussed on Haruhiko and Lan, with some Kagetora, Matsuri, and Ian thrown in. There will be a mixture of gen, shounen-ai, and het.
Emotion
(Challenge: for the writing_game prompt 'emotion', 200 word limit. Haruhiko and Lan centric)
Haruhiko rages in streaks of lightning, so hot and bright that the world lights up in a torrent of angry curses and sharp, shocking insults. Some days it feels as though he has so much anger that it burns, because nothing is right and he's so fucking useless and he's going to hell and dragging Lan down with him-
On those days, he hurts people he shouldn't. Kids with super powers just trying to do the right thing, good guys instead of the bad ones he's somehow ended up working for. Lan. Himself. The whole fucking world.
Lan locks his emotions up in a box where they are safe, and lives vicariously through Haruhiko's instead because it's easier; less painful and damaging. It's unfair, he knows, because it's Haruhiko then who hurts and gets that little bit damaged, and it's his friend (his best friend) who makes the decisions they need to make, allowing Lan to step back and remain somehow untainted by it all. It's his sister's life that they fight for, steal for, threaten to fall apart for, but it's Haruhiko who is willing to sacrifice his last few shreds of decency while Lan hopes uselessly for a better way.