A/N: I take a tiny break from the hiatus I'm on (ignoring the fact that I have not written for any of my chapter stories) to bring you my first Akatsuki no Yona fic. I love the anime and adore the manga. So here. Have HakYona angst.
Also! I am now on Tumblr! Go check me out under the same user name as on here, Empress of Everything. :)
Prompt: "We can never be together" kiss
When she kissed him, it was like a knife to the heart.
In her kiss were embers and ashes of a burned out love. It was regretful and broken and a goodbye.
Her kiss whispered "we can never be together" in a way her words never could. He clung to the last vestiges of affection, however imagined, on her lips with a frightening intensity.
He knew, in his heart, that her destiny and his lay together. How and in what form he hadn't known.
Until now. Until her deep eyes told him they were not meant to be.
He would always be the bodyguard, the man assigned to protect her by her dead father. In this capacity, he knew, she could never see him as an equal. It was subconscious. But when he had served her for so long, how could she see him as a lover? How could he stand on her level? How indeed.
Her first and final kiss told him as much.
And yet…it was a kiss. A kiss from his princess. A gift he never thought he'd be given.
He would hold onto the heat the embers held. Until they were extinguished, they still offered warmth to his slowly freezing heart.
That hint of fire would be his only solace.