Drabble #11: Running in Circles


Sometimes in life it's easy to run, to escape hardships in life. Sometimes, though, running can get you nowhere.

Such was the case for Bakura Ryou.

When he was younger, when larger boys would bully him, he found that running from them was a much better plan than taking the blows. When his mother and sister died, he ran from the hospital room, finding solace in a janitor's closet where he could avoid the image of his father holding that black electrical cord.

When he received the ring, however, he soon realized that running only led him in circles.

You can't run from yourself, landlord… the dark voice in his mind told him. It taunted and ridiculed him, belittled and demeaned him. He could never escape it.

Ryou wanted to run from him. He wanted to escape the hatred and torment pushed on his friends.

Ryou wanted to run from him. He wanted to escape the tainted kisses and blood-stained sheets.

Ryou had never wanted to lose his virginity to a voice in his mind. Ryou had never wanted to find his friends speaking to him through lead figurines. Ryou had never wanted to build the instrument of the world's destruction. Ryou had never wanted to be a medium through which the thief could cause harm. Ryou never wanted any of it. Ryou never wanted him.

Ryou wanted to run away from it all. But the thief had been right. You simply can't run from yourself. You'll be running in circles.


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