[A/N] A Spectrum of Light is a compilation of short stories done for a prompt/theme community on LJ. All were written by me, but they range in style, mood and pairings. Almost everything here is romance but you may find one or two that are based upon friendship or other such emotional connections. I've added "pairing" titles above each piece to warn those who'd rather not read specific ones.
3 ~Rae
Title: Sweet Poison
Pairings: Rei/Jedite
Theme: Poison
Her eyes were laced with arsenic. He could feel them from across the room, choking off his breath and slicing chills down the length of his spine. He had felt them from the moment that he'd entered the music suffocated night club, even before his eyes had found her on the upper balcony.
Their call was alluring, devastating, toxic. He tried to resist them and only found himself drawn further towards her. It was irresistible, unavoidable—he never should have come. Why had he? The deeper her poison crawled into his veins, the less he could remember. His friends had come with him but he didn't see them now; all there was to the world was the darkness, the thrum of the music, and her.
Up the stairs she'd drawn him though she'd not moved an inch from the balcony railing. Her friends were with her but as none of them tried to stop his approach they were inconsequential. She was radiant in perniciousness and burgundy silk. The fires of damnation hung caressing her skin, swishing over the gentle ivory as she took a solitary step towards him. It was more than she had ever done previously; perhaps, this time, she felt it too, the spell that she cast upon him. Or perhaps it was simply a part of that spell, to make him think that she was trapped as he was.
He'd never felt the effects of drugs but still he knew this for what it was: addiction. His hand outstretched to touch her and she let him tip that gentle chin, that moon-shaped chin, up to meet his lips as they descended upon hers.
Sweet acid—wonderful, excruciating acid—filled his mouth with her touch. It was eating him alive. She was eating him alive… he let her. Suicide was painless.