When Hearts Stop Beating
Rating: PG
Genre: Angst
Characters: Kagura, Sess too
I have my heart.
It beats beneath my crushing grasp.
It's slow, faint, and sluggish. Yet it is music to my ears. After wanting for so long I finally feel whole. Even as blood covers my hands, and smoke rises from my quivering chest.
Quivering! There's movement there. Life!
I want to scream my triumph to the skies. I've done it! I've won! He no longer has any hold over me. Yet my cry comes out as a horse grunt, and I realize that I am dying.
He has always claimed my life.
Now he has taken it.
Black clad feet appear in front of my wavering vision, and I look up to greet a pair of concerned golden eyes. Concerned. I can read the emotion there now. Perhaps more than one has gained a heart today.
I try to smile at him.
It seems that after all of this time, my heart still beats for him.
I am the wind, I think blissfully.
And now . . . I am finally free.