Written: 7/19/07
Word count: 100, 100
Rating: T
Characers/Pairings: Hakkai/Gojyo (sort of), Hazel
Spoilers: For Reload 7 manga
Warnings: None
Notes: For s0hmam0miji. She always talks about this part of the manga, and it inspired this. Two connected drabbles.
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Gojyo was crying.
Not full-blown crying, but crying nonetheless. He felt the tears run down his face, dripping onto Hakkai.
He didn't care.
one and two and--
He heard a rib crack and winced. Hakkai was in for a world of pain when he awoke.
--ten and eleven and--
Hazel was on the sidelines, waiting for the death that wasn't coming If he tried anything, he'd find that a furious halfbreed was just as scary as Seiten Taisei.
--twenty-six, twenty-seven--
Hakkai had died once on him.
It wasn't happening again.
--twenty-nine, thirty.
Two breaths and repeat.
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Hakkai had taught him before the damn journey.
Thirty compressions, then two breaths and repeat.
His lips were soft, as the redhead figured they'd be, but cold. So cold, too cold.
one... two...
He wasn't waking up. Gojyo pressed harder, more desperate by the second.
--three and four and--
Then, the twitch, the gasp. The unmitigated joy that he was breathing alive, color returning to his face.
Right then he knew. Without a dobut. He truly, madly, loved Hakkai.
"...Why are you makig that face?"
"Sh-shut up, you."
He couldn't say it, not yet, but they both knew.
It was enough.
For now.
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