-- Rapture --
Chapter 5 - Undying
Tuesday November 11, 2003 (We will remember)
Scribbler's ramblings: This is a pretty short chapter because I didn't feel like dragging it out.
Disclaimers: Natsuki Takaya! CHA! You rock! BakaBabi! CHA! You don't! =P j/k, but your plot rocks!
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The magazine lady had called an ambulance on her cell, a string of nervous profanity escaping her lips after hanging up. The cashier had collapsed onto the floor, unbelieving about what she had just done, dropping the gun and forcing it away from herself, willing its power to leave her alone.
As for Tohru, she had looked back. Looked back just in time to see the drunken man crumple, and her Kyou topple from the unforgiving bullet.
She sank to her knees, cradled him in her arms. Panic, shock, love, anything and everything. "Kyou, don't leave me. We're supposed to be together forever remember? You made your promise, don't lie to me, don't leave me, please Kyou, stay," she whispered, streams of tears travelling down her face.
Too much.
The tears fell onto his placid face, and he gingerly stretched up to wipe them from her cheeks. "Tohru, my Tohru, I'll never leave you," he winced, pain in every breath.
But, he was becoming drowsy and his eyelids were closing. Now and forever. She would never see his loving, lively, bright eyes again. Her life was falling. Falling from a grand old oak of Time, and being tormented by breezes of Fate. "I'm sorry Kyou, I did this to you, I'm sorry, I'm sorry… I love you too much Kyou, promise me you won't leave," Tohru continued, unable to comprehend what was happening. This was her world. Her world couldn't die. Worlds and lives and hearts just didn't do that. They stayed… they stayed… they stayed…
"I love you more - than this life Tohru. I - I…" he rasped, trying to force the words out.
His lips were becoming slack, and his grip on her loosened. His eyes no longer focused, and her tears lay untouched upon his face. "…pro-mise."
His breathing paused.
Only paused, Tohru thought, trying to convince herself, only paused dammit, and he'll come back soon enough. He promised, he promised to me he would stay. He's coming back and he would never lie to me. Only paused, this life has only paused for a moment. Only paused, only paused, only paused… She stopped crying as time froze, and her world tripped and faltered. Her eyes stared at him, urging for him to breathe again. Wanting for him to breathe. Hoping for him to breathe.
Only paused.
"We'll go for a picnic tomorrow…"
Only paused.
"I'll pack us way more food than either of us can possibly finish…"
Only paused.
"We can be together, Kyou…"
Only…
me
alone.
"Be together on those sunny days that will never exist," she concluded.
The wail of the sirens.
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Sunday November 30, 2003