When All Else Fails
{ 15 June 2010 } Written for Eternal Destiny. Prompt: "Desperate." Lyrics and inspiration courtesy of "Dreaming Wide Awake" by Poets of the Fall, an episode of Supernatural, and Final Destination ;) WARNING: Character Death.
"Kagome, wake up," he whispered. When the miko who lay parallel in his arms refused to wake, he gave her a little shake, knowing all the while—as the desperate often did—that that, and nothing else he'd try would work. Her skin was too pale, her body too limp and fragile. Though she wasn't quite dead, her wispy breathing told him that in a few moments she would be and desperately, InuYasha wanted to cling by the points of his nails to those few seconds Kagome had left by him.
Too late, the melody is over
The joke seems to be on me 'cause I'm the one not laughing
Down here on the floor
He felt the hated tears stinging his eyes. "Damn it," he muttered, pushing his face onto her shoulder. This scene was all too familiar. Why did the Kami insist on making him suffer the same things twice? Why did they force him to fall in love with the same girl all over again, only to lose her all over again?
Deflate, the mystery of living
In the most heartless fashion I could ever Imagine
No pretense of décor
`It's not fucking fair!' he thought angrily, wanting to lash out at the world. He couldn't do so with Kagome in his arms. Instead, he shifted her onto his lap.
…and saw something roll out onto the muddy ground beside her.
`What the…?'
Carefully maneuvering around his dying love his fingers skittered across the ground for the fallen object. Somewhere in the back of his grief-stricken mind, he knew exactly what it was.
Another place and time, without a great divide
And we could be flying deadly high
Hope swelled in his chest when his fingers latched onto it. Too blinded by the lure of a wish that could save her, he ignored every single warning he'd been given about the jewel. He ignored every one of her stuttering pleas not to use it.
All he knew was the tainted salvation pulsing out of the jewel and onto his love, then the joy of watching it reanimate her.
The consequences, he decided, could be reaped later.
…I'll sell my soul to dream you wide awake…
