a/n: drabble 2! only this one is a double. Leon and Krauser centric, intended to be read with a relationship in mind but I don't mind if you choose not to interpret it that way. Present tense knife-fight was my prompt.

Warnings: dirty violence. what, no porn?

I do not own any of the characters here present.


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Sharp minds and sharper edges, that was always the way they worked, and Leon regrets their past closeness now, if only for a second. Regrets and rejoices in it, because without it he would not be able to predict that movement – there – and he smart-steps aside, turning Krauser's single-edge on his double with ease.

A hiss from Krauser, and a nothing in return save that Leon bares his teeth, just perceptibly, but Krauser catches it and shows his own in a crooked grin; his scar twists as is its wont, and all Leon can think is how he used to caress that scar, feel its rough-healed edges under calloused fingertips and he shakes the memory desperately from his mind. No.

He focuses his mind, sharp as the twin edges of his blade, and catches a wild thrust from Krauser on his half-hilt just barely, the reverberations twanging his muscles like an over-tuned guitar. They sway, locked together like old times, and though they are fighting in earnest, now, it feels much the same to Leon; they breathe the same air, and push for dominance like nothing has changed.

Leon thinks, then, that nothing will ever change for them.

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