A/N: Requested by cataclysmatic on Livejournal, drabble post 9/28/09.
Prompt: chrysanthemum
Disclaimer: I don't own the original work this is derived from. This work is complete, and its brevity is intentional.
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red blossoms
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Within the space of a moment, an entire world is born and dies.
In it, the princess is whole and happy and free, and smiling at him. Her arms are full of golden chrysanthemums and the sun is bright on her hair. He sits on the grass smiling back, his own heart unstained and content with this one moment.
Suzaku thinks perhaps he is falling in love.
And then the sky splinters and lets the screaming back in, and he sees her bloodstained eyes and her mad smile. The vision shimmers away like the last notes of evening taps.
It seems he was never meant for happiness.
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