Genre: Romance
Rating: PG-13
Words: 200
Summary: The dead can wait.
Pairing: Midoriko/Inu-papa
Notes: Written for the alt-pairing challenge at iyfic contest on LJ.
They met in battle, bloody and ragged, and when they fucked it was remarkably similar. Young and impatient - always a breath away from dying - she tripped into his arms and out again, a strange mistake to make. She wonders if he knew she loved him.
Now their hanyou child - and he looks so like his father - wanders, searching for his vengeance, seeking a way to free her, though he does not know it. He will always think the lovely hime was his mother, and none will ever tell him differently; they guarded their secret well. She is content with that.
The cruelty is this: he is dead is gone is dead, and she is trapped forever, never to escape, in a web of youkai limbs that are not his. She wishes otherwise, yet still the battle rages, and she dreams of a life not lived, of golden eyes and silver hair. She dreams of when she was young, and she spent her life without tomorrows. She remembers he was her reward.
She dreams of time.
Now she has all the time in the world. If ever her soul is returned to her, she knows the wish that she will make.