A/N: This story is inspired by the linked gifset. It is mostly written for the benefit of a few but it was far too long to post on anything other than this little nook, plus I kind of want to break it up. I am mostly awful with this site, but whatever! Reviews are welcome & encouraged :D
PT I: INTERVAL
He sees it. Familiarity. Moving it in his hands, he knows how it feels. The weight is tangible in the palm of his hand; the edges find the groves in his palm. Calluses on the tips of his fingers brush against it, the touch is so smooth, cool. Familiarity. Home. It seems so removed from one another, a concept that tastes foreign in his mouth but seems to scream from what he had cupped between his fingers. A picture lies on the ground, smiling faces in happier times laughing at him as the white noise grows louder behind his eyes and it feels like a fly is buzzing on his eardrums.
His biceps tense, trying to squeeze the object into another shape. Give it another meaning. But it's stiff, hard, brittle. A bind, a reminder. A reminder of something he can't remember, but sounded like words someone had yelled at him previously, trying to drag something from the recesses of his skull. The faces are still smiling, still laughing, the bile rises up his throat and there is the scrape of a door opening. He snaps, rising to his feet, pulling his wand out in the half light streaming through the dulled windows, and coming face to face with a face that made it all buzz louder.
"What are you doing here?"
The question is met with a hand moving to a pocket, fingers – one with an ornament to match what he had been analysing so closely seconds before – moving over the end of her own weapon and eyes never leaving him. There is an expression he can't read. The back of his neck feels tense, beads of sweat roll down the sides of his face, mouth suddenly dry. He knows why he came, he knows why he's here. But there is a ring clutched in his other hand that make him terse, there is something in his mind trying to get out, clawing its way forwards but too weak to make it.
There is a moment of silence before he finally gets it out.
"I'm here to kill you."