Broken Snowflake
By: Kai
Disclaimer: This has gotta serve for the whole bit; I don't own the Troopers, and I'm not making any money off this trash.
Notes: ....... Siiiiigh. This is my longest piece to date, counting anything for school or non-fanfic topics or whatever. It totals a whopping twenty-five pages on my word processor, and comes to five chapters plus the prolouge. God, I am so proud of myself. It also is the longest spanning project of mine; we're talking five drafts and over a years worth of work. Ahhhh. How nice to finally put it up. I'll put a chapter up a week, I think, just to string you guys along. Hahahahahahahahah.

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There were rules.

Rules that, although they had never been officially established, had been agreed upon. Rules that weren't meant to be broken.

From the first time, that fateful night they had tumbled into each other's arms, the rules had stood as the proverbial line in the sand, a fence between day and night, friends and lovers.

Slowly, they became addicted to those nights; in the dark -- one of the rules -- they would come together time after time, bodies arching into a private oblivion, reachable only from that dark, those lonely couplings.

Like shards of a shattered comet, snow dropped from the sky, silent and heavy. With each subsequent flake hitting the ground, the world fell into a deeper slumber, unmolested by the falling heavens, or gusting wind.

Among the sleeping masses, however, they lay awake, impurities in the quiet, their bodies twisted into a single entity under a sea of rumpled sheets.

They kept their eyes shut, closed against each other.

There are rules, they both thought.

However deep the rules were built up then, they let their fingers intertwine, the simple gesture threatening to melt the rules as simply as a handful of snowflakes.