Author's notes for this "work": A random collection of Gravitation drabbles I have done over time. Though most of them are attached to Shooting Stars, some may not be. Various pairings, various ratings, and probably fairly constant updates. Don't try looking for chronological order—there isn't any. If I feel the timeline is important, I will let you know in the individual chapter notes. Enjoy!
Title: Sex and Glitter
Pairing: Tohma/Ryuichi
Genre: Romance/angst
Rating: T
Notes: Shooting Stars timeline, somewhere within chapters 17-19
Word count: 275
When he descends from his stage, everyone flocks around him; he is the center of their universe, their deity. Everything is sex and glitter and fevered excitement, and that's the way he likes it best. He is sweating hard, his skin is glistening with it, and he is tired, so tired he can barely stay on his feet, but he is laughing.
After, though, he likes the darkness too, and the silent hours when breathing and heartbeats become loud enough to pound in his ears like the bass of some song they have not created yet, the best one because no one but the two of them knows it. Sometimes he thinks he might like that best, the darkness covering the sex and the glitter until it becomes private and he can keep it all greedily to himself. In the darkness, everything is his and nothing is forbidden. He can own the shining thing he covets, if only for a short while.
When the sun comes up like stage lights, there is a halo of gold shining on his pillow. He knows it isn't his to touch, but he does, because the dazzle of it is impossible for him to resist, though he knows he must eventually let go. Words come spilling from inside him, his essence, and later, he gives them away too. They come out sex and glitter and mix with the pure shine of the music that carries them away, the shine he craves and can never have enough of. He watches the words and the music fly away and he sings himself into exhaustion, trying to preserve the feeling of flying.