The Mattress Manuscripts
By: bakayaro onna
Summary: A series of very short ficlets - some silly, some serious - starring Eiri and Shuichi, and featuring a mattress.
Story Fourteen: Alien
See story one, "Coconuts", for author notes about these writing exercises.
Disclaimer: I don't own Gravitation in any way, shape or form.
Alien
A story from The Mattress Manuscripts
Word Count: 182
Started: 11/14/2008
Completed: 11/24/2008
Eiri knows he has an alien living inside of him. It lurks within, chewing on him, poking his tender insides, making him uncomfortable in his skin. It has control over his head, hands and body. It makes him do things he does not want to do. He has fought it for years but it is a strong creature. Sometimes it leaves him alone and the writer thinks he has finally purged it from his mind, body and soul. Then something happens to cause the chaotic being to reappear and run rampant throughout his entire system, spreading devastation, turmoil and confusion.
The alien always returns when Eiri walks into the bedroom and sees Shuichi sleeping. It does not make any difference if the younger man is snoring loudly, flopped over the bedclothes wantonly, curled up in a ball under the covers, mumbling in his sleep, or breathing quietly. Whenever the blond beholds his soul mate slumbering in their bed, the alien crawls inside Eiri and takes control, despite anything he does to try to stop what it wrestles out of him.
He smiles.