Summary: In which Akane is shot and Kougami is one step too late.
Author's Notes: Okay, I wrote this after watching the Psycho-Pass movie and I was a little disappointed with the ending. And somehow, my frustration turned into this.
This story is not connected in any ways with the plots in canon. It's just a random one-shot but I guess you could say that it's set after the second season.
And you will see how I have made Shimotsuki Mika as my antagonist. Sorry, if I offended any fans. I've never been a particular fan of her.
I also know that it is highly unlikely for a normal Inspector to get their hands on such a dangerous weapon, but please, this is just a fanfiction.
I apologize in advance for any typos or grammatical mistakes.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything except the plot.
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Three thunderous shots run through the air, each bullet burying deep into Akane's soft flesh.
She is more than shocked to see a gun in front of her instead of a Dominator.
Crimson blood erupts from her like a beautiful artwork and splashes across her face. Her blood is warm against her skin.
Akane staggers with the force of the momentum, her legs crumbling beneath her.
She's in a state of complete silence for a moment; then she feels it.
The pain is overwhelming.
It hurts it hurts it hurtshurtshurtshurts.
Akane hears several people's screams behind her.
She absentmindedly thinks that Ginoza-san's voice sounds awfully panicked. And weirdly high-pitched.
Akane meets her fellow inspector's half-crazed gaze. The muzzle of the gun in Shimotauki-san' shaking hands is still steaming. Well, Akane thinks that Shimotsuki-san will not remain as an inspector for long.
From the corner of her eyes, she sees Yayoi-san aim her Dominator at Shimotsuki Mika.
Then Akane blinks and falls.
But she is caught by a pair of strong arms before she hits the ground and she sags into the warm embrace.
Her legs aren't working any more.
And her eyesights are getting blurrier by the second.
But Akane is able to smell the whiff of a very familiar brand of cigarettes.
She knows who caught her before she looks up to meet his gaze.
His brows are furrowed in worry and his eyes are blazing with fear and concern.
His mouth moves but Akane realises that she doesn't hear anything apart from a dull ringing around her ears.
And the powerful thudding of his heart beating against her ear.
Her eyelids flutter.
She is tired.
But Akane is glad to meet him in her final moments. She has so many questions to ask him.
When did he come back to Japan?
How did he enter the border without being detected by Sybil?
What is he doing here?
How did he find her?
But she's too tired and cold and it's getting harder and harder for her to breathe. Her lungs are clogged. She wants to sleep.
But there's one thing she needs to say before the end.
With her last strength, Akane reaches up and her fingertips graze his face.
His cheek gets smeared by her blood.
She smiles at him.
"...Kougami-san. ...I got tired of waiting...for you." Akane's voice is a bare soft whisper, but Kougami-san seems to have heard the fond exasperation laced in her words because a sliver of amusement flashes across his face.
Then she lifts up her head and her lips meet his.
It's only for a moment and he's too shocked to kiss her back, but it is enough for her.
She whispers her last words against his mouth.
"...Welcome home."
And Akane lets go and she knows no more.
She doesn't hear him yelling her name.
She doesn't feel his tears falling down to her cheeks.
She doesn't know that she is crushed into his chest and rocked back and forth in his embrace.
She doesn't see him fight back desperately when they try to pry off her corpse from his arms.
Akane doesn't know—.
Because she never wakes up again.
End.
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