Title: failure
Characters/Pairings: Lev, Marie Olga
A/N: I have to say, I did find Marie's inability to comprehend Lev's betrayal really interesting. I wonder just how dependent she was of him?
Summary: It had to be a lie, a falsehood, a trick; anything but the truth. Lev wouldn't have betrayed her. He couldn't.
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Lev's gentle smile twisted into a cruel smirk. "I did it."
And it had to be a lie, a falsehood, a trick; anything but the truth. It was bad enough that Fuyuki was akin to a painting from hell, with monsters roaming through a city that should have been populated with people, not corpses. It was hard enough to accept that all of Olga's hand-picked, chosen master candidates had died or didn't make it to the singularity, leaving only the half-asleep idiot and the demi-servant Mash.
But to hear that Lev had been behind it all? That he had betrayed her—he wouldn't have. He couldn't. It just wasn't possible.
"No," Olga whispered, unable to make a sound louder than a whimper.
"Yes," he answered, malicious where he used to be kind.
Her eyes stung, her throat burned, and it had to be because of the fire and smoke. Not due to the disappointments that were almost like a second skin to her by now. Nor due to the lack of control that centered every facet of her life.
And definitely not because no matter what she did, she was a failure, she had always been one.