Title: Star Light, Star Bright
Pairing: KagomexInuyasha
Challenge: Begin with the line: "She lost consciousness during the night."
Rating: PG
She lost consciousness during the night. Or maybe it was more of a deeper sleep than before. She dreamed of a flashback, or perhaps a delusion. Or maybe a flashback within a delusion, but it was enough. It was Sengoku Jidai, December 16th, 1586. Snow was falling, and the full moon was out. She was walking outside, not wearing much, and shivering. She stopped for a moment beside a field and just looked at the glittering white blanket of cold.
It was something she did often, and it drove Inuyasha mad.
Her fingers and toes had lost feeling, but still she stood there, and watched the field and the sky, full of stars. The air was so clean, so pure, with no smog or city light to obstruct their blinding light. It looked as if someone had thrown handfuls of sparkling diamonds across black velvet. She twirled under their icy fire, her hair flying out around her, her white nightgown blending in with her surroundings. It was the kind of night that belonged to angels. It was the kind of night that made her believe she could be one.
She sat down, and stayed out there while the thin cloth soaked through and her lips turned blue, saturating herself with moonlight. Only when she thought she might just freeze completely did she move to go back inside.
Inuyasha was asleep, slumbering peacefully like he so rarely did. Kagome crouched by the embers of their evening fire and fed it until it blazed again. She thawed herself out before climbing back under the covers with her husband.
Before she fell asleep, she whispered, "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight."
She woke with a start, sitting up abruptly. She was in her familiar room, with her familiar surroundings. That had been before, she thought. Before everything had happened, before, before, before. She refused to even think about it.
A warm hand slid along her shoulder, and she sank back into bed.
"You alright?"
"Fine." She looked out the window at the stars and whispered, "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight."
