If they had been born in the current century and meet in the last decade how Frankenstein and Raizel expressed themselves would be very different. I expect...
"Your back?" for good, he did not add. Knowing that wish would never be granted unless he was dead. It did not matter as much as Rai being alive here now. It could have easily been a yellow letter in the mail, telling him his partner, his dearest had died.
"Yes, I have three months leave."Frank approached his dearest, emotions boiling in his chest. It had been so long since he had seen the other he could not remember what else he could say. He turned to action instead.
He lifted the man who appeared so young and carried him to their bedroom. Frank intended to stay awake until he burnt those shadows out of Rai's eyes with his love. It would not work completely. His own shadows remained even now, with over a year to forget them. It did not feel right to forget.
The war had cracked him open painted madness on his heart and authorities had sent him home. So the madness wouldn't grow and destroy him. They remained blissfully unaware that the only thing that kept the wound from festering was this person in his arms.
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It had been an inevitable meeting. Frank was a field doctor treating the wounded as best he could when there were so many patients and so few hands to help them. Rai was a legend in the field the one who never failed to bring his people back alive no matter the mission, no matter the cost to himself. He was also a rumour the enhanced solder the experiment and the one who could not die.
Rai had been injured saving one of his men from death. They had brought him to the nearest med bay, Frank's own, so he could be treated. To this day Frank didn't know what he had done to earn it but he had gained Rai's confidence. Rai had told him the truth behind the rumours as he had told Raizel the torment he experienced with every patient lost.
Stuck in the temporary hospice with a very broken leg - because the authorities would not let him go to a hospital with proper paper records - Rai had all the time he needed to fall in love. He requested missions that kept him closest to Frank's hospice and with every injury he returned to the man's care. He watched as the doctor who could not harden his heart against the loss of his patients grew increasingly worn. Said what he could to alleviate the burden that would never go away.
Frank had in turn fallen in love with the soul that could stay so bright in this storm of blood and agony. Knowing the risk he had added Raizel to the emergency contacts. Raizel should be informed in the case of his death, and spent a few nights without patients when the interrogators came.
Raizel was most displeased when he heard and he responded by adding Frank to his list of emergency contacts. Realising they may very well make the enhanced human snap if they didn't leave his favourite doctor alone the questions stopped. They had received a month's leave together as an apology, they could not afford to lose Raizel's loyalty.
Frank had been surprised when Raizel responded to his flirting so readily. The relationship they had as unorthodox as it was became their life line. When Raizel eventually failed to keep his entire unit alive and Frank lost that one patient too many.
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"Welcome back dearest," Frank whispered in Raizel's ear when he had dissolved what shadows he could from his partner's eyes.
"I'm home," was the gentle reply.
Frank is Frankenstein it was meant to be a modern-ish AU snippet.
Really this is just one of those fics where you end up writing something entirely different than what you intended. I was meant to focus on how 'Master' means 'Dearest' to Frankenstein, how his service is an expression of love. Not a human war AU, egh.
