Title: reverse osmosis
Disclaimer: I don't own the DGM series.
Characters: Leverrier
Summary: He learns night after night of the unforgiving nature of memories and the long arms of the past.
[reverse osmosis]
Inspector Leverrier
Some nights he wakes sweating, a scream caught dead in his throat.
He can never quite explain why sleep comes hard for him, nightmares breaking up his nights, cold, clammy hands resting lightly on his throat, fear pressing against his collarbone like the ice-cold tip of a dagger.
Some nights he smells blood, the thick odour of it wafting beyond his nostrils, whipping up a backlash in his stomach, the promise of entrails hanging thick behind the curtains. He doesn't dare to get out of bed on such nights; the floor is riddled with traps, cluttered with the bony, clawing fingers of those he sent walking into the unforgiving darkness.
He tells himself, but I had no choice! but the shadows still climb up the damp walls, their wispiness hiding secrets he'd rather not know.
Some nights he wakes sweating, the smell of freshly dug soil lingering in his lungs, a mountain sitting on his chest, and blood red eyes scanning the dark room for signs of life, because surely it was a dream.
Just a dream, just a dream, and he fights back the scream –
He can see his sister, her pale legs dancing, her hollow eyes seeking, and he's pinned to the bed and her hands come a-reaching.
In the morning, he wakes a pale, gaunt man, cheeks sunk in and hair combed back, toothbrush moustache quivering.
He looks old, just another man, just another man.
But even in the morning, the ghosts haunt him; they creep behind him, slithering in dark corridors and whispering to him in forgotten languages, and his sister comes forward and brushes her hands against his hair and opens her red, red mouth, and he fights back the scream –
Some nights he kneels and prays for real and begs for forgiveness for he has sinned so fatherinheavenihavesinned and he prays for repentance because fatherinheavenihavesinned and goodness knows he isn't anything like Cain and fatherinheavenihavesinned it was painful watching his sister die, her blood on his hands.
Forgivemefatherforihavesinned, and he fights back the scream –
(For he has sinned, and sinners must pay the price).
A/N: I love writing about Leverrier. There's so much to write for him, this most reviled of DGM characters. I do believe he once had a good side to him. Circumstances can bring about unhealthy changes in about anyone…
Yep so thanks for reading and I'd be pleased to hear what you thought about this! (: