Disclaimers: Not my people. Sadly.

Warnings: None really. Little bit of angst. Shonen-ai? Maybe, if you're looking for it. I never specified the speaker's gender.

Basically a piece about Aya/Ran from the perspective of his lover, whoever that is. It's just fluff, but eventually there will be one for each of the Weiss boys, if not for Schwartz. Anyway. . . here we go.

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Orchids and Roses

The stars are coming out now. I can just see them peeking past the drapes he has across the window - a few bright sparks in an otherwise solid black sky.

He'll be here soon. I'm sitting on his bed, rocking back and forth, rocking his bouquet. Orchids. Roses. Made with his two flowers.

Orchid. Ran. He used to be more like an Orchid, before the accident. . . I run my fingers down the pearly, violet petals. Open. Soft. Gentle to see and to touch.

I let the orchid fall back onto my lap and finger the blood-red roses. He's a rose now - vibrant, cold, locked up so tightly in his velvet petals. And thorns. I smile to myself in the darkness. Definitely thorns. He can be very dangerous when rubbed the wrong way.

Well. . . less so, now. Now that he has me. It sounds selfish to put it that way, but it's true. He's softer now - not like an orchid, but maybe a rose without thorns. My friend. My companion. My lover.

I look up as he opens the door, steps through into his room, his sanctuary. He smiles at me, at the flowers. . .

His eyes immediately become more complicated; he recognizes the significance - realizes what I've realized. That inside the ring of roses he's built so carefully around himself, there's still a delicate orchid - Ran. As he takes me in his arms, I can feel the soft petals around my waist, tangled with my heart. . .

I can feel that, even though he's lost the orchid's innocence, he has also lost the rose's sting. My koi. . . mine.

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That was pretty short and crappy and weird and all that, but it was fun to put nice words together. I was also trying to show the softer side of Aya here. Who's his lover? It's up to you! Please R + R.