Sjdflksfsaflieskjd I know I'm like three weeks late and this is absolutely no length at all. I don't even have an excuse. I'm just lazy.

Disclaimer: I do not own D. Gray-Man


Freedom

Neither one is free.

He is a Second Exorcist. He is not human. His brain belonged to someone else, his body was the Black Order's to control. He cannot die, and he isn't really living. Just mission after mission, over and over until the hourglass runs out and the lotus wilts and he dies, at last.

He is a Bookman. They see everything and feel nothing. They take on personalities as it suits their work, discarding these "selves" as easily as a shirt once the time is up. He belongs to the Bookman order, and is really nothing more than eyes and ears sent out into the world to record. Everything in the world is real and solid, except for him.

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Neither one is free. They do not belong to themselves – body, mind, or soul, and they never will. They will go on the way they are until they die. That's how it is.

Except that that's not quite true. Sometimes, they can forget that he will die and that he does not really exist.

When they are together, it all falls away, leaving Kanda Yuu and Lavi Bookman to be just the two of them together. No lotus, no other personalities – just one and the other, together. They don't need to speak, don't need to do – just being together is all they need.

When they are together, they can be free.


I'm repeating myself, aren't I? Sigh. Oh well.

Next week is spring break. I'll try to get my brain back into DGM and write another few of these (no promises, though – I'm still a lazy girl… sigh.)

- Ruyax