Disclaimer: Oniisama e and all characters therein belong to Ikeda Riyoko. I'm just borrowing them for nefarious (but nonprofit!) purposes.
Warnings: This drabble contains spoilers for partway through the series, as well as references to attempted suicide.

Failure

The blood is flowing from Rei's wrist, staining the snow beneath it an obscene red.

In her last moments, she believed she was dying because of their love for each other. It was Fukiko's last kindness to her— to grant her the joy of believing her love was reciprocated, that they were in this together.

Fukiko looks at the body lying motionless in the snow. Suddenly it's all too much, and she's terrified. She drops the knife, blood spattering across the snow where it falls, and bandages Rei's wrist before she can bleed out.

She will come to regret it.