Tight Spot
Summary: When the Valkyrie's head goes missing, Ikebukuro is slowly thrown into chaos, and Orihara Izaya is forced to lower himself to the level of mere humans to drag everything back into order.
Warning: dark themes. Psychological thriller.
This fic was inspired by something from the LJ kink meme post.
Supremely short prologue:
Prologue
It was hard not to fall in love with it, if only a little.
Izaya reached forward to run his fingers against the smooth cheek of his treasure. It stared back unwaveringly, a perfect creature complete without a body. He watched as it blinked once, closing its lids for a brief second before opening them and allowing him to drown in their oblivion.
Humans were interesting but this, thiswas a panacea. Beyond human. A valkyrie. Proof that the improbable wasn't so impossible after all.
It had been plaguing his dreams recently. But this was a strange kind of love, almost like an exalted admiration. He wanted to become this creature, to take it over in every possible aspect, to own it inside out until every part of it belonged to him and was him, until he could claim its immortality and play every vein of Ikebukuro with his limitless sight.
The piercing light from the window forced him awake, and he sat up in bed.
.
In his office, Namie was twirling in her chair with a frown embedded into her features. When she saw him walk down the stairs, it deepened.
"Izaya. What did you do with it, and why'd it leave such a mess?" She asked, tapping her fingers against her arm.
He raised an eyebrow. "What did I do with what? Geez, stop being so loud in the morning."
She pointed wordlessly across the office to his desk, where the glass case that had held the head stood upright. Nerve-like cracks rippled across its surface, inching towards a smash at one end. The papers he'd left nearby were stained wet with the fluid that had sluiced out of it.
"Come on," Namie said with a hint of worry creeping into her voice. "Did you have it moved, or something?"
His breath caught in his throat when he realized that the Valkyrie's head was gone.