Title: What the Universe Holds
Pairings: Kurogane/Fai, Yasha/Ashura,
Rating: M
Prompt:
Word Count: 1,216
Warnings: Yaoi, death, angst, romance, language
Notes: AU based on the movie Solaris, Most of the dialougue is taking from the movie.
Disclaimer: Solaris (both movie and novel) and the CLAMP characters are not mine.
Kurogane rummages through old video files, searching for answers. He discovers a tape of the three scientists talking about the God-like planet.
"It's God." Declared the Syaoran on the tape.
"It doesn't matter, we need to find a way to make all of this go away." Yasha glared at the younger man.
"But think of the opportunities..." Mihara, always the scientist, always the one out for new discoveries.
"No! What if it follows us back home? What if this, whatever the hell it is starting happening on a mass scale back on Earth?!" Anger blooms on Yasha's always passive face, as he slams a fist down on the gray table.
"We're not even sure, whatever it is, will let us leave." Syaoran stares at the other two, face neutral compared to his crewmates.
"Perhaps it's like a spider web, waiting for something to show up." The scientist's voice faded as Kurogane turned his attention away from the video.
He played another video, this one from his dead friends video journals. The screen showed Mihara staring at the camera, his hair even more disheveled and signs of stress were apparent on his semmingly tired face.
"...You ask questions at the end of your life, the sort of questions people who are content just don't ask...maybe life just can't be solved, maybe there are no answers for it just endless questions."
Kurogane stops the tape, turning off the screen as he gets up and exits the room. He enters his own room without so much as turning on the lights, the dark haired man flops down on his bed, the others words playing over and over again in his mind. Eventually the mixture of shock and stress lull him to sleep.
A pair of lips press against his and unconsciously he reacts hungrily crushing his lips to familiar ones.
"Fai..."
"Make love to me." Half lidded eyes gaze lustfully down at him, he could never say no to the blonde and now was no exception. How he had missed those fingers roaming over his skin, how he had missed tracing the contours of the body above his kissing sweaty skin as he savored the long forgotten taste.
Kurogane wakes up to see Fai asleep, blonde bangs covering his closed eyes. His gaze turns to the ceiling as memories flood his mind, images of the blonde sleeping soundly beside him resurface after years of dormancy.
Red eyes stare intently at the man across from him. The blonde hasn't noticed the stranger staring at him from across the train seats yet, but when he does there eyes lock on to eachother and both males seemingly go in to a trance neither looking away.
The train stops after what seems like hours and the blue eyed man that had stared back gets up to leave, breaking the spell that held their gazes together. Kurogane looks after him, blue and red lock on again for a brief moment before the train starts to move again.
Their first meeting, he smiled fondly, a the faded memory.
He had arrived at the party late, Tomoyo and Yuuko hadn't caught him yet so he wanted to avoid meeting his cousin and boss just a little longer. He scanned the room trying to find the two woman so he could stay away from them, but a flash of blonde caught his attention. He had just walked into the room and had immediately spotted Kurogane in the crowd.
The blonde smiles at him, while he can only manage a smirk. Both are happy to see eachother again. Kurogane makes his way to the strange man.
"And Death Shall Have No Dominion." Stated the dark haired man, the blonde looked at him confused.
"A book?"
"No, poem, by Dyaln Thomas, you reminded me of it when I saw you on the train." Kurogane doesn't understand why this man makes him so brave, he would never does this to anyone else.
"My Thomas is a little rusty." The smile almost reaches the others eyes. Kurogane whispers the rest of the poem to the man.
"That's not a very happy poem you know." A frown taking place of the almost smile on the pale face.
"You didn't seem very happen then, you don't now either."
"I wasn't, but tonight's getting better." The blonde leans up and whispers into his ear, hot breath tickling his neck, sending shivers down his spine.
"That's...good to know."
He blushed at the thought, he remembered how Tomoyo had teased him relentlessly for the rest of the week. He looks back at Fai who is still sleeping and reaches over to brush away a few strands of hair. Kurogane frowns, his brow creasing as images of that night swarm him.
The opened bottle lays on their bed, an even colder hand rests outstretched on the red sofa, the pale skin of its owner contrasts starkiling against each other. Rain streaks the windows as small rivlets race down the glass pane. Burnt coffee wafts into the bedroom.
"So, what do you remember?" They sit beside eachother Fai resting against his lover. Blue eyes look up into red, confusion marring the beautiful face.
"Kuro-rinta?"
"Do you remember movies, books, friends, family?" Fai thinks for a moment before he smiles.
"I do, but only now that you've mentioned it. As soon as you said it, I remembered." Fai turns his attention away from Kurogane to stare out the small window to Solaris.
"Kuro-wanko, is it a planet?"
"It's in a continuum that wasn't known to exist until a few years ago, I guess you could say it's in it's own dimension. It's a violation against everything we thought about the universe, space, or even space-time."
"Does it have intelligence?"
"Beyond anything we've ever seen."
"So it's something like a god, right?"
"Who knows." Fai smiles at Kurogane's stubborness he leans to kiss him, but the intercom interrupts them.
"Kurogane-san, are you awake?" Syaoran's voice echoed in the room.
"Yes, what is it?"
"Can you meet me and Yasha on A deck in about an hour?"
"Yes."
Kurogane kisses Fai's forehead as the blonde fidgets nervously.
"You okay?" Blonde hair sways as Fai nods in approval. The doctor closes the door behind him as he leaves his lover in the room. He stands just outside the locked door, listening for anything bad, he starts to move away until he hears a crash and the shattering of glass.
He rushes back in to see Fai covered in blood shards of glass glitter on the floor.
"Fai?"
"What...happened to me?"
"It looks like you were trying to break down the door, why would you do that?"
"I paniced when you left." Kurogane carries the blonde to the bed, rushing to the bathroom to get the first aide kit. He returns to see Fai's wounds healing in front of him. Fai looks at him horrified.
"What the hell?"
"Kuro-pon, whats wrong with me?" Frightened eyes look up at the doctor wide and unblinking.