Characters: Aizen, Orihime
Summary
: Little mayfly, you are dying anyway.
Pairings
: twisted Aizen x Orihime
Warnings/Spoilers
: spoilers for Hueco Mundo arc
Timeline
: Hueco Mundo arc
Author's Note
: This is basically what would have happened if Aizen had taken a more "personal" interest in Orihime while she was on Hueco Mundo. Scary.
Disclaimer
: I don't own Bleach.


He sees no harm at all in playing with her until she breaks and then discarding her afterwards. After all, Aizen's in charge and Orihime's just a prisoner. Officially speaking, she's an "ally", but in the reality that everyone knows, she's a prisoner, so a blind eye is turned to this. What else can be done?

Inoue Orihime's mental state is of little concern to the other Shinigami and the Arrancar anyway; she's no different to them sane or unbalanced.

That, of course, is what Aizen counts on.

The little mayfly can't complain, either. She knows better—if she ever says a word the pendulum will fall and everyone she has ever cared about will die. This is all the power Aizen has ever given her—the power of holding her friends' lives in her hands, to clasp to her chest or cast away to the wind at the first opportunity. This power is the chain that binds her to him, for all eternity, because Orihime's the one holding the sharpened pendulum over the necks of her loved ones, and if she leaves him, she'll have to drop it, and kill them.

With the one power Orihime has sapping all the rest of her power away, Aizen has free rein now, and she knows it.

A glass jar is placed over the little mayfly, robbing her of air and leaving her to buzz helplessly around the confines of the jar, searching fruitlessly for a hole in the glass, for a way out. The jar is removed only when she lies unconscious on the floor and is on the verge of suffocation.

Orihime's frantic attempts to save her own life are only entertainment for Aizen, anyway. Death would rob him of his enjoyment, and he still needs the girl, anyway.

That doesn't mean he can't have some fun first.

Eventually, the time comes for ripping of the wings.

Aizen can't see what she's so upset, so viscerally frightened about. After all, this won't hurt a bit.

Little mayfly, you are dying anyway. You have but one day left to live.

What different does it make, if you greet Death without wings?