"The Actor and the Pianist"

Summary: He searches, still he searches. He gazes at the stars every night, wondering if she'll appear: the girl with magic fingers and deep iris eyes. She waits for him to rescue her. He searches for her precious 'smile'. She places hope in him, he places hope in her. The cycle continues as they depend on each other, even when departed. The Actor and the Pianist: their thoughts, their separation, their story...

A/N: Trying to do one drabble for each Ryuusei no Gemini episode. Based on my own thoughts of what happened to Yin and why they replaced her with russian loli with big gun. Each one-shot is usually short and sweet, and packed full of my attempted fluff. Starting with ep2 because 1 is pretty much void of our favorite DtB'ers. If you don't get it, my theory is that Yin's connected to the meteor fragment that Hei is so trying to get. I think that she's either dead or unconscious or something, but in other words, not in Russia. :P

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Alone, left alone

Watch us slowly disappear with time

Unknown, still unknown

Forgotten, lost, and left behind...

the actor----

Iris-less eyes peered through a rickity telescope. He studied the stars, those fake stars that tempted the wisest man to believe in them. The dark haired man pulled his gaze away from those beautiful lies and lowered himself to the frosted Russian ground. Since she had left, he had stopped taking care of himself. His hair had grown out to his shoulders, unkept and shaggy. A bristley beard spiked off his chin. Since that night, he'd been searching intently for the one thing that could bring her precious smile back to him: the meteor core. So close, he was so close! Somewhere in this country he would find it, he had to find it.

Frustration and anxiety ate at his very soul, or the one he had left. The man called 'Li' was truely gone now. His act, his facade, it was destroyed; he had no need for it. She accepted him for who he was, in all his awkwardness and irrational decisions. She accepted the man named 'Hei'. Her name echoed through his mind: 'Yin'. Yin and Hei, black and white...

Wait for me, will you wait for me?

Need you on my side

Way for me, make way for me

With arms wide...

----the pianist

Emotionless eyes stared blankly at the starry landscape before her. Still, quiet, peace; nothing was ever disturbed here in this place of silence. She was like a princess, a princess of the fake stars. The girl held her arm up, sightless eyes flickering towards the milky light radiated by the heavenly bodies. White hair lays in neat curls down her shoulder and chest. Would he come? Would he rescue her? That Black Reaper, she trusted him to take her from this place of sadness. That man named Hei that made her stone heart beat, that helped her to smile.

Tears streamed down her face but she felt no sadness. Oh, those sweet emotions, why were they out of her reach? Right in front of her, she could feel them begging to get inside. There was one way she could express how she felt: music. The feeling of those ivory keys over her porcelain skin, the energy that pulsed through her body as her sensitive fingers danced, the poem that wrapped around her while she played, but most of all, knowing that he was listening to her works of art caressing the air...

At the memories, she pushed her lips into the form of a smile. He always laughed when she did that. Was he laughing now? Was he able to see her? The white light shined through her blind eyes. She could faintly see that moonlight of atonement. Yin, that was her simple name. She held the memories of Kirsi. She wanted to be like that Kirsi, with feelings and emotions, with a life...