Author's Notes: Well, it's about time I finished this, ne? I haven't been in a real fan fic writing mood in awhile. Hopefully I'll be inspired to finish the other Utena fan fic I'm working on now that this one is finished.

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Saionji moaned into the kiss before he realized what he was doing. He wasn't about to surrender to Touga. To a man who admitted he didn't love him and was using him as a pawn.

He pushed Touga and when this failed to stop him, Saionji bit Touga's lips savagely

Touga backed away rather startled as Saionji wiped the bitter blood away and fought to keep himself from crying.

"You didn't have to do that," Touga said somewhat icily fingering his lips.

"You didn't have to involve me in any of this," Saionji said violet eyes flaring with anger. Anger always came to him quicker than sorrow. He was relying on the anger to keep him from falling apart again.

He turned away from Touga and sighed heavily.

He winced as Touga chuckled. "I just noticed that you still haven't answered my question."

Saionji turned around slightly and watched Touga gracefully land on the bed. He gave Saionji a sexy smile, pushing a stray wisp of red hair back.

Saionji looked down at him, eyebrows twitching in silent fury.

"Well, darling?" Touga whispered in a teasing almost caressing tone of voice. "I don't have all day.

Especially if I have to find a replacement," he added with a shrug.

Saionji growled but if was more a weak sound of desperation than what he had been hoping for.

"You should have no trouble. I have always been easy to replace," he said as emotionally as possible. Under the circumstances, he was rather proud of himself that he had achieved a highly lethal level of apathy.

Touga chuckled and reached up to pat Saionji's cheek.

"Not as easily as you think. Besides, if you're my rose bride who's to say you won't get your wish granted, ne?"

Saionji wasn't sure what to say to that. He frowned. Every time he was about to give up hope, Touga had to twist everything around.

He yelped as Touga pulled him down onto the bed by his hair. Touga moved on top of him with the grace of a dancer and smiled down at him.

"Say yes and maybe someday I'll love you."

Saionji closed his eyes and fought against his body and his heart to not say yes, to not settle for the best Touga seemed capable of. People didn't change because of wishes. Hearts didn't change because of a surrender...because of a defeat.

But what chance did he have anyway? The best he could hope for was the revolution of the world, for better or for worse.

For sickness and in health...

Some bride he would be.

He gulped as Touga stared down at him with luminous blue eyes like a psychotic panther pretending it was a domesticated house cat.

"Hai," Saionji managed in a faint whisper in a half-hearted attempt to deny his reply while at the same time giving in to Touga.

Touga chuckled and moved up Saionji's body, pushing his knee between Saionji's legs as he did so.

"Can't hear you, lover. You're going to have to speak-up."

Saionji gritted his teeth and let out a "Yes" and a moan at the same time.

Touga buried his head against Saionji's throat and grazed it with his teeth.

"Now all that remains is to consummate the marriage," Touga said with a toothy grin before he began to remove his uniform.

Saionji closed his eyes and pretended that the world had been revolutionized already. He smiled wistfully imagining himself safe in Touga's arms as the marriage was consummated and the honeymoon began.

~FIN~