Title: Blood Music
Rating: PG-13? A little graphic (it's Lucci) and sex is mentioned.
Word Count: 3 x 100
Pairing: Lucci/Paulie with creepy Hattori.
Warnings: Spoilers for Water Seven, through chapter ... 349. (The fact that I can pull that number out of thin air demonstrates my unhealthy obsession with Water Seven)
Notes: Each of these can stand on its own, but they're meant to be a set of three. Each clocks in at 100 words even.

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When Lucci gets especially bored with this game, he lets his hand pause over Paulie's heart, fingers tense, ready to pierce, slide easily through skin until blood wells up, down through muscle where veins shudder and rip, into flesh and past bone until he can feel the pathetic pulsing of Paulie's heart, until the feeble echo of blood music in his ears swells to a symphony of savagery.

Paulie's breath hitches then; his eyes might grow wary but his fool grin also widens. Lucci's waiting to see the look in those eyes when Paulie can hear the blood music, too.

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Hattori is never afraid of his master, not even when Lucci is all fur and fangs and the low rumble of a growl. Lucci's new toy is afraid. Perched close enough that he can hear a breath stop mid-gasp over the noise of them together, Hattori watches, wonders if this time Lucci will kill. Wonders why the other doesn't run; stupid, so afraid and still returning to distract his master.

He mouths the syllables, though, helps his master stalk this stupid prey, and waits for the regular rhythm of this game to be broken by sharp fingers and pulsing blood.

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There's a tune to this, a beat: Paulie's pulse stutters as fingers pause (affection? like hell, but he swallows anyway) over his heart, as sweat (his own, Lucci's) rolls down his back; a rhythm: breaths, pants, off-kilter to the pounding of blood in his ears. A familiar pattern: Lucci smirks and Paulie snarls; bites in the dark; a laugh edged with threat, promise, heat. It's a tune he knows, and damn if he hadn't gotten used to it.

It's when he feels his heart stutter again, pulse blood around Lucci's fingers, that he realizes: he has always been tone deaf.

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It's been a year since I tried my hand at drabbles. This was a submission to the "Music" topic at the livejournal One Piece yaoi drabble community, oonepieceyaoi100.