Characters: Rangiku, Gin
Summary: All it takes is the blink of an eye, and it's over.
Pairings: GinRan
Warnings/Spoilers: Spoilers for Soul Society arc
Timeline: post-Soul Society arc
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach.
The shattered remnant of a whole slips from your hands and crashes, lifeless, to the earth to drown in silence and accusations.
Who can I blame, when all is said and done?
Who but myself, for not seeing what ought to have been so obvious?
I am… I am pieces of a whole, I guess, and not entirely all there. I am a jigsaw puzzle, but warped. Some of my pieces have been taken—forcibly—and replaced by pieces from different puzzles; they don't fit right. I am slightly misshapen with cardboard puzzle pieces bulging from me. If you look closely you can detect the asymmetry in my form.
He's the one who made me this way and he's just the same, except for him, none of the pieces fit at all.
All I had to do was blink, you know. I-I loved him, and all I had to do was blink and it was over. I wish—
Looking back, there were sings on the road painted neon-bright, but I couldn't see them. His smile was cracked and I couldn't see it. Hairline fractures all throughout, and I couldn't see it. I wish—
Blink, blink, that's all you had to do and it was over. I hated you beyond reason for cutting it off.
Come, come, you look so pale now. You've had your fill of darkness but you can't blink to undo it all. Your past actions are set in stone; nothing can undo them.
I'll never forget the way he said goodbye. As though he was just walking down the street to pick up milk from the store. As if he'd only be gone for five minutes. As though none of this matters and maybe it doesn't to him but to me it was the cracking of the world. I wish—
He said goodbye. I wish—
It all happened so fast. I wish—
All in the blink of an eye. I wish—
iwish—
iwish—
iwishmorethananything—
—A thousand ill-starred wishes, all killed at the root, all doomed from the start. All it takes is a blink of the eye, and it's over.—