Two Tears

by reminiscent-afterthought

[AT, 03/06] She'd been the catalyst. He'd been the killer. Both of them were stained with blood, blades that could only cut more wounds no matter how others tried to heal them. And neither of them had enough left to atone with.

1. Chapter 1

A/N: Written for the

Becoming the Tamer King, Training Peak task
AU Devils of Doom Challenge, 280 – double suicide
Hats Challenge, Juri/Yuu, and for the Diversity Challenge, c31 - write a fic that explores death.

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Two Tears

/1/

She could never cry enough.

Everybody asked her to stop. Begged. Ordered. Coaxed.

She could never stop. She could never bring herself to stop.

She could never cry enough to make up for what she had cost them all, no matter how they asked.

Nor did she deserve to reach that impossible height, because that would mean everything was forgiven, everything forgotten. They might have forgiven her. Or so they said. She could not forgive herself.

It was her penance. To cry but to never be able to cry enough, as much as they deserved.

She could – and would – never shed enough tears to equal their blood.