Well, Hello and welcome to my Little World of Weirdness!
I state for the record that, despite the fact I really, really wish I did, I don't own any of the official characters that will grace this story; it's all CLAMP's! Always has been, always will be! I *DO*, however, own Marcibay Hilligans and Hei-ying Reed!! I also own Mystrasa Kyree, and the dragon isn't mine, it's on loan from my good friend, the Blue Goo! And what the heck . . . I own the mansion as well! [Laughs] Also I don't pretend to have any Mastery over the language of Japanese or any clue as to correct grammatical structure. I put it in and hope it gets across the point I'm trying to make! And I don't pretend to be able to write any sort of accents so please don't hate me!
"Speaking"
*Stress/emphasis*
//Thinking//
In This Tainted Soul . . .
By Dr Megalomania.
Part Twenty-One: Snowflakes
Yue strolled down the hallway to the stairs, he check his robes one more time before descending the stairs. It was Christmas; Keroberos had announced this fact as he always did, by running down the hallway yelling at the top of his lungs, "IT'S CHRISTMAS!!"
Yue smiled, he did enjoy the holiday, as he did his false form's birthday. He walked down the stairs, wondering where Keroberos and Clow had disappeared. Yue had woken up in Clow's bed alone, he lay there for a few moments just breathing in the warm scent of Clow that infused the bed. He wished he hadn't slept so long, and wished even more that he could have woken up before Clow. He would have just lain there and watch the powerful magician sleep. He paused and shook his head, it would not do if he continually fantasised about his creator, his feelings would simply never be returned, and Clow would just smile at him and repeat that Yue's love for him was merely that a pet would feel for his master. He sighed and walked down, he was going to the kitchen to get some to eat, but stopped in the entrance hall.
He clasped his hands behind his back and bit his lip, "But first . . . A little detour . . ."
He walked briskly into the downstairs study, checking that no one saw him as he rushed over to the window. It had been snowing last night and he wondered if it would be snowing today. Yue sighed as the window revealed that the snow had stopped. His shoulders drooped, "It's *not* Christmas without snow . . ." He sighed and almost turned away from the portal, when something caught his eye. He blinked; it was a single snowflake, a single white pure snowflake drifted just in front of his face.
"It's snowing . . ." he lifted his hand and caught it just on the tip of his finger, ". . . inside?"
Another snowflake danced impossibly and tantalisingly in front of him. He watched it, somehow knowing not to touch it, as it drifted over his shoulder.
"Hello Yue . . ." Clow smiled from the doorway, he was dressed in his full robes, his large hat rested easily on his dark hair, and a long purple scarf was tightly secured around his neck. Yue smiled and bobbed a bow quickly, "Ohayo."
Clow smiled warmly again and moved into the middle of the room, he beckoned Yue closer as he called his staff into existence. When Yue was stood just a few inches away Clow smiled, "Merry Christmas, Yue . . ." Yue gasped, as Clow leant forward and gently brushed a kiss over his forehead. " . . . And happy birthday . . ."
Yue blushed slightly as Clow smiled at him again, "Thank you."
"You haven't seen your gift yet . . ." Clow held out his hand and caught another snowflake on the tip of his finger, "I hope you like it . . ." Yue raised a question eyebrow as Clow looked upwards.
Yue tipped his head back, he blinked and his mouth fell slowly open. Above him was the Snow spirit of the Clow cards. She smiled and did a little twirl in the air, causing a small drift of snow to fall lightly on them. Yue looked at Clow, who smiled. He tapped his staff on the ground quietly, and looked up again. Yue stared up again; the snow was gathering small clouds.
"Happy birthday . . ." Clow lifted his hand again and traced Yue's raised sharp jaw, the angel couldn't see the wistful, hungry look pass over his creator's deep eyes, "My little moonbeam . . ."
The clouds exploded and it began to snow heavily on the magician and his creation, Yue spread his wings and fluttered them slightly, "It's snowing . . . Keroberos! Come look! It's snowing!!"
"Oh no!" Keroberos growled from the doorway, "I hate snow! I'm not setting foot in there!"
Clow laughed as his cards suddenly sprang from his robes and headed straight for the growling lion, "No! Clow! Call off your bloody cards! I'm not—"
The cards pushed him vehemently into the room as Clow laughed and watched Yue spread his arms and spin in the snow. "It's snowing!" The moon angel laughed, he stopped spinning and rushed over to Clow. "Thank you!"
Clow grinned and bowed, "May I have this dance?"
Keroberos growled and snapped at the cards, "Hopeless enchanted imps! Get off me!" As Yue and Clow laughed and danced around the snow filled room, Yue thought, //This is my best birthday . . . My best since he created me . . .//
Three years later, one winter's night.
"Clow . . ."
Clow opened his eyes and sat up in his bed. He could tell instantly that it was a vision, as Eriol sat on the edge of his bed. "Hello Eriol . . . what have you come to tell me?"
Eriol smiled slightly, he sighed and looked at Clow, "I think you know."
Clow nodded, he looked out his window; it was snowing lightly again. "It's time for me . . ." he looked at Eriol, "Isn't it?"
"Aye . . ." Clow almost gasped as Marcibay stepped out of the shadows, "Laddie . . . it's time to leave."
"You're here?" Clow smiled as he stepped out of the bed and grasped Hilligans' hand, "Why have you never come back to see me before?"
"Because it is not the practice of the dead to haunt the living!" Clow's mother said as she, his father and his uncle joined them. She smiled, "You have done so well my son . . . but now your work is done."
Clow sat back on his bed, "My creations . . .?"
"Well taken care of." Li Hei-ying stepped forward; his almost black brown eyes were glinting in the moonlight. "The next life awaits you."
Clow's father smiled as he sat beside his son, "You have other tasks to tend to . . . but your time has done . . . today . . ." he glanced at the clock, "Today is the last day of your mortal life . . ."
"Master?!" Yue blinked in surprise, this was hardly the birthday present he was expecting this year, "What do you mean?!"
"This is a joke right?!" Yelled Keroberos, furious and shocked, "You're kidding."
Clow was sitting there as if he had just announced that tea was ready, Yue didn't understand how could he say such a thing so easily, his eyes widened as Clow smiled and repeated, "This is no joke. Today I shall leave this life."
Yue managed not to stumble as he walked over to the window, usually seeing the snow falling softly in the night made him happy, but tonight . . . he could feel Keroberos look at him as he growled at Clow, "Today? This minute? Tonight? Or perhaps a quick cup of tea, maybe a bit of crumpet then you'll just pop your clogs?!" Keroberos was so angry at Clow, it had only been last year when he had separated the last two cards to them, Yue had gotten the Dark and Keroberos the Light, and now Clow was announcing that he was going to die?! It wasn't fair, he hadn't given them an inch of warning, not a single warning, Keroberos didn't mind, but Yue deserved something, he was in love with Clow. "That's what you've always been, Clow, damned stubborn!" Keroberos glanced at Yue again; his brother still stared out the window, "What about . . .?"
The angel glared at Keroberos over his shoulder, silently warning him not to continue. Keroberos cast one angrier look at Clow before stalking out of the room, evidently beyond expressing his fury civilly. //How could he do this? To the both of us?// He growled silently as he ran up the stairs, //To Yue who almost died because of his love for him?!//
Yue looked at the doorway and seriously considered leaving, he didn't want to hear this, didn't want to hear Clow tell him he was leaving again. He bit on his lip and looked at Clow, "You're going to leave us . . . leave me?" He stepped hesitantly closer, "why? Master, why are you leaving me?"
Clow smiled warmly, "I am so tired of this life," he explained calmly, "I *need* to go."
Yue looked down at the floor as he tried to absorb this fact. "Why? Why would you want to . . . unless . . . Are we the—?"
"No." Clow answered simply. "You're not the reason . . . neither of you have ever brought a single moment of unhappiness to my life."
Yue didn't understand this, his conflicting emotions battled each other, he should have just been able to smile and nod and say 'yes master', accept it, live with it, but then his heart felt like it was breaking, Clow was leaving them, but he was happy, it didn't make any sense. He fell to his knees beside Clow's chair, and picked up his creator's hand, "Then why?" The angel sobbed finally.
Clow murmured his response, "Because I am sick of knowing everything that has happened, that is happening, that will happen."
"But I love you!" Yue cried then flinched, he had committed a terrible sin. He looked down in shame; he shouldn't have said that, he waited for Clow to laugh with amusement; instead Clow slid his fingers under the angel's chin and pulled it up gently. "I knew this as well;" Yue blinked at him, wanting to ask why Clow had never said, but remained silent sensing there was more, "But I also know that one day you will fall in love with another, and he will be more than I ever could be to you . . ."
"No-one . . ." Yue was appalled, he shook his head, he didn't want Clow to say any of this, "Never . . . nobody . . . I'll do anything, just please don't leave me . . ." Clow petted him on the head, as he did whenever Yue was upset.
"There's nothing you can do, for it has already been decided . . ." Clow smiled, a hint of sadness in his eyes, "My beloved . . ." he closed his eyes quickly and swallowed as a smile quirked at his lips.
". . . Yue . . ."
Every Story Must Have A Beginning . . .
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And Now It's Time For LEAVE IT TO DOCTOR MEGALOMANIA!!
[Silence from all]
Kero: Told ya she'd break!
DrM: Shut it you . . . Clow just popped his clogs!
Clow: I did?! Hey, If I'm dead then how come . . .?
DrM: [types quickly]
Ghost of Clow Reed: Oh . . . [growls] you bitch!
Yue: [Wails] He left me!!
Kero: Oh, don't worry . . . he'll just come back and back and back and back and back . . .
DrM: Like the Durracell bunny?
Kero: Got it in one.
Ghost of Cow Reed: Please R&R . . . [Notices Mateem Bluewing sniggering and pointing at his name, reads screen name] HEY!!
DrM: [shakes head] that's what you get is you watch CardC[r]aptors at the same time as writing. . .