Title: A reason to live
Pairing: Elliot x Reo
Raiting: T
Warnings: spoilers to chapter 57!
Disclaimer: I don't own Pandora Hearts and it's characters. Everything belongs to Jun Mochizuki-sama.
Author note: I just recently read the RAWs of chapter 57, and couldn't resist the urge to write this fanfic. Like I said - it contains a big soiler, so if you don't want to ruin the mood of reading the chapter - don't read this fanfic.
I'm really sorry. English isn't my first language, and even if I asked my friend to edit it - feel free to tell me if you find any mistakes.
Thank you, my dear beta Mally! You help was really awesome!
Now I'm stopping saying randomness and letting you read my fic. Hope, you'll enjoy it ^^
He stared at his own hands in terror. Everything went wrong. Everything seemed so awkward. How could this be happening? The Headhunter whom he had been searching for so long…. Whom he had been searching just in order to ask one question: why? The Headhunter… was him…
Reo was sobbing next to him, mumbling something quietly, but Elliot ignored him. He stared fixedly at his mother's corpse. How… how could he have done this? Why? Why… was it him?
Memories of him killing his brothers filled his head. Pain. Fear. He was completely broken. He felt that he could be going insane at any moment. He had killed people who were precious to him with his own hands. He couldn't take it anymore. Slowly, not really understanding what he was doing, he raised his sword and pointed it to his own neck…
"NO!" Reo's loud, desperate scream made him start and look down. His friend stood next to him on his knees, clinging to the skirts of his jacket. His body was shaking, and his eyes were filled with pain and tears to an extent that Elliot could only nervously gulp.
"Do not … Elliot, please…" his voice was hoarse from tears. "Do not do that! It's not you… it's not your fault!" He lowered his head, his fingers on the cloth tightened so that the knuckles whitened. "It's my fault, Elliot… everything has happened because of me… I'm sorry… I'm sorry…"
Elliot froze for a second, and then his gaze slowly cleared. He knelt in front of Reo and cupped his friend's face in his palms. The sole thought that a minute ago he was going to end his own life made him want to puke. How could he be so weak? How could he be so blind?
"Your eyes are so beautiful, Reo," his voice sounded surprisingly soft. He wiped his friend's tears with his finger. "You shouldn't hide them…. Never again."
His mind couldn't hold the fact that he was a murderer anymore, that he had destroyed almost all of his family. It was a lot easier to think of something else at this moment. Anything else would be okay. He was angry at himself. How could he think, that there weren't any reasons to live anymore? There was a reason! A very warm and alive reason for him to continue living.
The reason was named "Reo".
So, without any hesitation he leaned closer and covered Reo's slightly parted lips with his own. He didn't need to think of anything else, at least for now. Nothing else mattered - just the warm feeling of having someone who wouldn't betray or leave him ever. The feeling of having a person whom he could continue to live for – this was the only feeling of hope he could harbor at that moment…
….because Elliot Nightray couldn't live for himself anymore.
A/N: R&R, please? ^^'