Haunted House
Title: Haunted House
Author: Cat'n'mouse
Prompt: fluff
Theme: Angst/Friendship
Warnings: Character deaths
Pairings: MioRitsu (not really romance more like bromance-ish?)
Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with K-ON. I am not selling this fic. I am making no profits
Summary: There is a crack. It splits past the empty house, down the dusty room and past the aged guitars. It splits the silence into Ritsu's laughter; Yui's whines; Azusa's protests. It splits Mio in half.
Chapter One: Forethought
There is a house.
It's empty but warm and free of the usual residing family. Flowers dot the lawn in freckles, and the picket fence falls beneath the pressure of an overgrown bush. It still smells of love and of the last cooked meal. It smells of an intruder's new scent that blots the air.
There is a crack.
It splits down the wall in the bedroom, where a knife stabs into a photograph. The paper wrinkles and breaks where the blade connects but refuses fall, and the girls within sit on that flower freckled lawn, one grinning, the other looking at her hands. The crack splits them in half.
It runs down the wall, past the photo and away from the room. It follows its own path, seeking but not finding. It reaches downstairs.
It splits into a girl.
There is a crack.
It's splitting the girl in half, separating her senses and her mind. It parts the subconscious and the conscious, her memories from reality. The subconscious keeps her functioning, keeps her eating, drinking. It takes her walking every day, to the house, to the flower freckled lawn.
There is a house, there is a crack, and there is a girl. There is a crack in the house, in the girl.
There is a crack in Akiyama Mio.
This is part of a challenge fic I'm doing with two friends, one of them have an account here - Silent Arrow, aka Bella
The rules to the challenge are as follows:
Bella chooses for me a fandom I have never been in before, so something I know nothing about, which in this case, was K-ON.
She then chooses about five fics for me to read from that fandom, centred around a main pairing/characters (Mio and Ritsu).
And based on what I understand from the five fics, I need to create my own fanfiction.
Please note that I am NOT in the K-ON fandom, so I don't know about the quality. It's missing a couple of scenes towards the end but since I was never going to finish it I decided to post this anyway, and its readable without them. Enjoy
Cat'n'mouse