Soukoku Angst Week 2019 – Day 4: Time Loop or Nightmares
Giggles fill the air. Chuuya squirms as he tries and fails to get away from Dazai's cruel, cruel fingers that dig into his sides without mercy. The bandaged man has a grin on his face as he tickles his partner, long arms easy trapping the redhead. They're in their apartment, two years married, well on their way to reaching their third anniversary.
"Stop it-ha-Dazai!" Chuuya nearly howls, kicking at his husband's legs. He gets another jab to the side for that, and tears start spilling from his eyes even as he doubles over from the ticklish sensation. "I'll-ha-kill you-ahaha-if you keep on – no, not there! Osamu!" He shrieks as nimble fingers dig into his armpits. He's on the verge of knocking his head back into Dazai's nose, when a young voice interrupts them.
"Otou-san? Chichiue? What are you doing?"
The couple on the couch freeze and look over. Sure enough, their adopted daughter, Aya, stands in the doorway, head tilted cutely to the side. Dazai responds first, finally letting Chuuya escape from his fingers. "We're having a tickle contest! Want to join?"
"Yeah!" The ensuing tackle from Aya sends Dazai toppling into Chuuya, who steals the chance to get back at his husband. The bark of startled laughter that follows is music to his ears, along with Aya's tinkling giggles.
Later, Chuuya smiles as he cuddles up with Osamu and Aya on the couch, the little family tired out from the afternoon's antics. He slowly drifts off to sleep, happy and content.
Chuuya jerks awake, tears coming to his eyes as the warm walls of his home is replaced by the dilapidated surroundings of the basement he's holed himself up in. He reaches for the touchscreen on the VR machine next to him, selecting a memory at random. He sighs in relief as he sinks into another happy memory, ready to submit to the time-loop. Absent-mindedly, he thanks the inventor of the machine, before blissfully escaping into the arms of his husband.
Miles away, Dazai screams as he's tossed into another nightmare again and again and again, helpless against constraints that bite into his limbs and torso. Fyodor can only laugh as he watches his nemesis break under the force of the VR machine, gleefully pressing the loop button on his creation. He grins as he sees the footage from the other machine he placed with the little redhead – he should probably make a move to capture him soon.
Still, he can't wait for the day he tosses them both into the arena – his nemesis will tear his husband apart before realizing that it really is Chuuya standing in front of him, and Chuuya will be pliant enough to let Dazai come close enough to kill him.
What a wonderful way to destroy Soukoku.
Just for background: Fyodor took over the world. Ability Users are being hunted down and tortured. Fyodor caught Dazai and decided not to hunt down Chuuya, masterminding his dependence on the machine he created. The machine's name is 'Time-Loop', for obvious reasons.
A/N: Not quite sure whether this counts as a time-loop or a nightmare or any of the above, but I'm really running out of writing ideas – It is crazily hard to churn out angst fic after angst fic. Way shorter than I expected, but it's the best I can do for this fic – my brain simply won't cooperate any more. Hope you enjoy it!
