[[au - bakura is ryou's brother. / there is a reason this is in no grammar! i was testing an alternate writing style for this, as you can see i went back to another one in the second chapter.]]
it's the middle of the night and ryou can't sleep
marikku always knows when ryou can't sleep because the door is open and he sneaks in and he can hear the younger boy shut the door so he wakes up and smirks at him
ryou is always adorable. ryou always smiles and laughs when there's nothing to laugh at and people say he's disturbed and people say he's insane and his brother left him here but marikku doesn't believe them and neither does ryou
ryou loves him, ryou sleeps next to him and plays games and acts like any other person, ryou doesn't judge him for liking the dead or finding killing fascinating and he tells marikku that he's fine
marikku knows what love means and he appreciates ryou loving him, he doesn't know if he's quite human enough to feel 'love' back but he's obsessed, he's so obsessed with the silver haired boy
he is an angel and perfect, an innocent boy on the outside who cries out for marikku and mumurs his name in his sleep and runs his fingers over marikku's scars and moans his name so perfectly and has the most perfect pout that could bend the world to his will
he is like glass yet stronger, he is a divine being in his own right no matter how fucked up everyone says he is, ryou is perfect to the egyptian no matter what
marikku doesn't know if he 'loves' ryou, everyone says only humans can love and marikku isn't human because everyone says he's not but ryou says he is, and marikku doesn't know if he loves ryou but he's so obsessed with that perfect smile and adorable eyes and soft laugh
so when ryou crawls into his bed he smiles and ruffles the boy's hair and holds him close and makes sure he has no more nightmares and he kisses ryou's forehead and all of his scars across his arms and neck and ryou says he loves him
and marikku says he knows, he's glad, and he doesn't know if he loves ryou by everyone's definition but to him this is love, so he murmurs ryou's name softly and smirks as ryou falls asleep
and he thinks maybe, just maybe, he understands what love is and he feels it for the boy, before he falls asleep with his arms around him.