This is the first Moon Child fic I will submit here, but not the first I've written. I hope you guys enjoy it and maybe get into the fandom if you're not already there. Keep the GakuHai love alive!! Though in this case, ShoKei? Love!
Heaven Can Wait
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Sho's hand in his was a little sweaty but Kei chose to attribute it to the warm weather of Mallepa in the summer. If he wanted to be honest it was damned hot but the older vampire wasn't going to mention that now. Besides, for the moment at least, there was a cool wind blowing off the ocean in front of them.
The sound of the waves on the shore was peaceful. They had parked high enough and far enough away that the powerful roar of the ocean was subdued, adding a small piece of tranquility to their inner turmoil.
His hair fluttered in the breeze and Kei enjoyed the sensation, his longer locks making it easy for the wind to play with. The blond considered shaking it out, ruffling it enough for more to catch on the breeze, but Kei knew Sho would think the action strange. A grown man playing in the wind. And why not? But he knew there wasn't anything that Sho enjoyed anymore.
The changing colors of the pre-dawn sky that had always fascinated Kei went unnoticed by Sho and for that Kei was sorry. It was the simplest pleasures that made life worth living. But Sho had never had time for simple pleasures, even when he was alive, and after his death Kei knew the other man had been too consumed with anger and grief to take the time to enjoy the changes in the world through his vampire eyes.
It was a shame. Sho would die without ever knowing. Perhaps that was the reason for the growing dampness of his hand, the faint tremors of his arm, and the way his jaw flexed as though he wanted to say something but would never force out the words.
Kei smiled softly, tightening his hold on Sho shaking hand. They were so close to being finished with all of it, to saying goodbye to a world filled with pain where everything a person loved was taken away.
But there was joy and beauty to be had too. There was happiness to be experienced in a world far from the one Sho had known all his natural and unnatural life.
And Kei wanted him to see it.
Sho looked over in surprise as Kei lifted the handle of his door. He gave the younger man another smile and a squeeze of his hand before Kei let go and slid out of the car.
"Kei?"
The blond walked around the hood of the car, ignoring the way Sho's eyed bored into his movements, keeping his eyes on the ever brightening sky. He stopped beside Sho's car door, bringing his gaze back to where Sho sat unmoving, a strange expression on his face.
"Come on, Sho. You've proved you're willing to die. Were you ever willing to live?"
Kei opened the driver's door confidently though his face betrayed his fear that Sho would refuse him now.
Sho cast one more look at the lightening horizon before turning back to Kei's pleading eyes and worried lip. It was almost enough to make him smile.
He stood up slowly, as if his mind and body were still at war over this decision though his mind seemed made up when he slammed the door shut again.
Kei's smile widened and he reached out his own slightly clammy hand to clasp Sho's.
"They can wait a little longer."
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