Title: Prevention
Author: sky75rk
Standard disclaimers apply.
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"What makes you think I'll let you go?"
"What makes you think that you'll stop me?"
They've had this conversation before.
"Shuichi! Return those back in there now!"
"Stop giving me orders!"
Only back then, it had been the other way around.
Has it been three years already?
"Where are you going?"
Violet eyes stared at golden ones, almost painfully trying to mask the hurt. "Out of your life. Just like what you wanted,"
Why was it ending?
"Don't go," a quiet whisper no one heard.
The door was left opened.
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All it took was a minute.
A single minute to ruin everything they had worked so hard for, with a word he can't take back. A single minute to lose himself and completely drive away the person that understood him. A single fucking minute to realize what he had done and attempt to return things back to normal.
Yes, all it took was a minute to squander all for the second time.
It was unbearable to accept that everything could be washed away by one word.
Leave.
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He had fallen asleep.
Slowly, his golden eyes opened and he found himself lying on his bed, his arms starched widely beside him. His clothes were still the ones he wore the night before.
He hadn't changed.
'Shuichi…"
A minute, it seems, can be everything. Even for him.
"Yes?" a voice emerged from the door. "Is there anything you want, Yuki?" the vocalist asked. Yuki stared in disbelief.
"You're… here,"
Shuichi crossed the remaining distance between them. "Of course I am. I would never leave you," he put the water he brought for the novelist down on the side table.
Leave.
Yuki's sudden pull caused the pink-haired boy to tumble forward into the blonde's arms. Silently, he thanked the gods that he let the glass go.
In the stoic man's embrace, Shuichi found the grace to smile. "Don't worry, Yuki. It was only a dream," he reassured.
It only took a minute for him to feel a lifetime's worth of regrets.
"Even so," Yuki started as he stroked the boy's tresses. "Even if it was only a dream, that minute can come anytime,"
He stared at Shuichi's eyes and murmured. "But I won't let that happen,"
The vocalist smiled and embraced the novelist tighter. "You're such a romantic Yuki," he teased.
"Shut up,"
-Cue: Glaring Dream-