Fulfilment.
T: Yet another explorative angsty one shot to fill time between my larger fics and to stretch my creativity. This particular one shot is something I've been meaning to do for a while and has finally made it to print because A) I'm in an angst kind of a mood at the moment and B) I finally found a way of writing this that I liked! Beware the ANGST, the MESSING WITH MAJOUR EVENTS, the fact that this is, practically, a DRABBLE and of course the AU. I own nothing here but the evilness!
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He has planned for this moment for what seems a lifetime…
Has lied, sullied his fingers in innocent blood and has acted against his heart all for the chance of coming to this moment.
The other looks at his best today, the broken, betrayed look clear in his eyes more beautiful to him than even the other's smiles had been.
The last, useless, words have been spoken between them and they have fallen into the base communication of violence.
The other is slowing almost imperceptibly and he takes the opportunity to strike the final blow…
There is blood all about him and yet, somehow, it is not his own.
The other perceives his confusion and pulling himself a little from his arms he enquires,
"Why do you seem surprised, Seishiro-san? Did you not pull that final blow with the intent of killing me?"
"No." He can feel traitorous tears threatening at his eyes and burying his head into the other's neck he remarks, "At the end of her life your sister cast a spell upon me, a spell that only she could perform and that was meant to deflect this final attack upon myself.
"I had thought, you see, to die in your arms…to give you your revenge and to reveal to you, at last, the truth of my heart."
The other smiles then and his fingers lift to tangle, weekly, into his hair,
"If only I had known…if only things had been other than they were and yet…" he pulls himself forward, his lips breathing three simple words and then he is gone.
He clutches the corpse closer and though he can feel the bridge shifting already beneath him, though he knows that his 'enemies' are coming, he makes no mover to leave.
The final words of the one he had sworn to protect always…the one to whom he had trusted his future…are repeating through his mind and smiling his last smile he remarks, "It seems you have taken me again by surprise, Subaru-kun," before he places his head against the others chest and waits for the end to come.
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