Chapter 5: In Which Is Soundless Fear and Fury
No, it wasn't supposed to be like this!
As in a dream, Tsuzuki found himself walking back toward the fallen boy.
As he approached, the father stood up protectively over the boy, teeth showing, hands fisted.
Tsuzuki stopped the older man, and knelt by the boy, in the father's frozen shadow. Tatsumi was struggling, straining hugely against him. It hurt. Tsuzuki sent him to sleep, though the furious father fought fearsomely against that as well, for a while, before falling like a log.
Tsuzuki grimaced as he caught him. He quickly lowered Tatsumi to the ground, focusing on the disaster he had wrought.
His thoughts flew in useless frightened circles as he stared at the boy.
It's not supposed to be like this. It can't!
He found himself summoning, willing Suzaku to heal the boy. The phoenix heals. She could do it. It didn't matter that she was just a figment of his imagination. He needed his nee-san to fix this.
