A fun little challenge to distract me from my studies ? Hell yes ! I am doing the 30 Kisses Challenge (List Gamma) with my dear friend Arienlys.
Playing with a modern, zombie-and-necromance Alternative Universe, with an agender zombie Hiyori and a necromancer Akon. And friends ! Who are going to appear in later drabbles !
Enjoy !
01 - Inside out
Hiyori was sitting cross-legged on their old and used couch, Pokémon game forgotten on eir lap, battle music still playing, with eir eyes focused on him. Akon turned his head toward em. It was hard to ignore that gaze, clinging to his skin, even if he couldn't put his finger on why ey was looking at him like this.
- What ? ... Seriously, what ?
- Did ya look at yourself this morning or ... ? Y'know that mirrors are a thing, right ? 's not like you are a vampire. Just a human necromancer. I'm the undead one here, ey said with a small grunt.
Akon rolled his eyes and leaned back in his computer chair, trying to get his attention back to his work, before ruffling his already messy hair and sighing. A small smirk was appearing on Hiyori's face, almost like a growling laughter, teeth and fangs flashing under eir lips.
- Okay, what's so funny ?
- Y'should really, I dunno, take a good look at yourself.
- I'm busy, Hiyori. So can you please tell me ? Because otherwise, seriously, I have an exam coming and...
- Yeah, yeah, work for that thing, yeah. Glad I don't have to study. Death has some perks. Undeath ? Whatever. No longer my problem.
~o~
With a deep sigh, Akon closed his laptop. A headache was slowly creeping its way along his skull and he knew it was a lost battle already. It was only the middle of the afternoon and he couldn't keep on studying like that. Maybe drinking something could help... He got up and closed his eyes, rubbing cold fingers against his temple, in the vain hope that it could help.
- Headache ?
He flinched before turning his head toward Hiyori, bright gold eyes looking at him, a fang barely shown through eir lips. Ey left the couch at one point in the afternoon, following the warmth of the sun, like a dog trying to nap in the warmest place in the house, and he lost track of em while trying to remember medical terms and illnesses and how human bodies work. It was funny, how it worked, how some parts had no secrets for him, not after living with a zombie. A grumpy, easy to anger, and sometimes very insecure zombie. Movies really didn't understand how they worked. But the same could be said for most of magical subjects and creatures...
- Yeah... Probably shouldn't look at a screen until it passes.
Hiyori had a nose for his problems, small or big, always ready to growl at them and bite. Ey pushed him toward the couch, before disappearing in the kitchen. Ey reappeared a couple minutes later, a glass of water and pills in eir hands. He downed them quickly, hoping it would kill the headache before it would kill him.
- You didn't notice, right ?, ey asked suddenly, looking at him with eir head tilted and a slight gleam in eir eyes.
- Noticed what..? No I didn't, since I don't know what you are talking about. So ? What should I have been noticing ?
- Your shirt. It's been inside-out since this morning. How the fuck you can miss something like that ?
Akon looked down on his shirt. Hiyori was right ; he could see the seams of his shirt.
- That was the thing you were looking at this morning ? ... Seriously ? You think an inside-out shirt is fascinating ?
Only the ghost of a smile answered him, with a low growl of contentment, and with a light sigh, he leaned in and kissed eir forehead.