Title: Footprints
Pairing:Gin Ichimaru x Rangiku Matsumoto
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or its characters.
A/N: This for traitors_smile for the gin/ran Thanksgiving drabble fest at the gin/ran LJ community. Thanks also for manonlechat and silawen for catching my mistakes.
Original prompt:
Anyhoo, requesting Gin/Ran, any age, no preference on rating, but here's my prompt. It's a favorite quote of mine:
"People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to."
There was never enough: food, wood, blankets. We were lucky we had each other. We took care of each other. I remember you putting a cup to my lips when I was burning with fever.
"Drink, Rangiku."
You looked concerned, and this was the first time I saw the color of your eyes: a light blue that seemed to change to red like eyes of a Siamese cat.
In the winter we kept each other warm, and on hot days we fanned one another. I loved you so.
You never said goodbye when you left me by myself.
Or gave me a chance to wish you well.
You would leave in the middle of the night. Did you not think I would wake up, or did you think I would find out in the morning? Why should I even wonder, it is just one of your many secrets.
No. It isn't a mystery. You had to have known that the absence of your warmth would wake me up, and that you could easily lose me in the dark, if I chose to follow you. If it was winter, you would leave me when it snowed, so the snowflakes could cover up your footsteps by morning. But would I have followed if I could see them?
I knew my answer when the Menos Grande came to rescue you, and the other two traitors. I knew even though I loved you, I could never follow you to Hueco Mundo. I could never hold on longer.
Or tighter.
But the sun is out and my footprints have not disappeared.
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