G, KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN!, UNI&GAMMA
§ devotion §
¶ Uni is sweet and tiny. Her hands are baby plump and pale white. It is as if her mother's smile was cut from her mother's (cold dead beautiful) face and pasted onto her cherub's face. She is wise, insightful, cheerful, perfect. She is all the good things that were in her mother, condensed into this tiny bundle and made all the more wonderful for it.
His love for her feels like a dirty thing until he decides it is the love for a daughter-- and why not, a child of his beloved he can consider a child of his. He does not consider a further love, because it doesn't matter that he's murdered countlessly and remorselessly, he has morals that he will not budge.
He was grateful for this exchange, of a new object to place his devotion. Uni was an angel sent from heaven, appearing in his moment of despair. He himself could not have chosen better, even if allowed to choose from the whole world he would pick Uni. This is Devotion. It does not waver. His is no candle, he tells himself, dropping into the cliche, because eventually candles run out of wick and wax.
He struggles now to keep himself from using past tense. Uni is gone though, vacant. He knows there is no way she is there- there has been no hint of a smile. He knows that if she were there, she would smile for him.
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28.7.2008
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