Title: What the Universe Holds
Pairings: Kurogane/Fai, Yasha/Ashura, others
Rating: M
Prompt:
Word Count: 783
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.
"Am I alright?" Fai asks worriedly as he sits on one of the ships hospital beds.
"Yes." Kurogane and the others had since had the blonde do numerous tests.
"He won't do it you know." Syaoran whispers to Yasha, while they stand away from the couple. The older man is about to answer when Kurogane and Fai come towards them, both men exchange glances.
"This is Fai, my lover." Fai stands beside his lover, greeting Syaoran and instantly liking the younger man, Yasha is another story.
"Kurogane-san, we need to talk to you alone."
"It's fine, go ahead."
"I think we should share our...experiences with our visitors. Maybe we can find out something." Yasha then turns to Fai, who looks away from the harsh gaze.
"Who was it for you, Yasha?"
"My wife." Yasha looked lost as he spoke.
"Syaoran?" Kurogane turned to the youngest crew member.
"My brother."
"He appeared here exactly as he had before?" All three men look at eachother, Fai is shocked by the word 'before'.
"When you cut yourself did it hurt?" Kurogane looks at Fai. Fai nods in agreement.
"It's like a game, where they just keep reappearing again and again." Syaoran looked at the others, a worried look crossing his features.
Fai walked across their kitchen, making himself a cup of tea, halfway through he sees the bedroom light on. He knows that Kurogane's awake and as if proving him right the other man joins him in the kitchen.
"Why aren't you in bed?" Blurry eyes meet blue.
"I just wanted to think." Both know the malice behind the innocent words. Fai raises drinks his tea in small sips, all the while not looking at the other man.
The chatter of the people around fades away as they continue sit beside eachother on one of the couches. Somewhere of in the distance Kurogane can hear Tomoyo entertaining guests.
"I used to have a brother, a twin actually, and we used to have such strange...visions. Well it's hard to explain, the where more like dreamscapes, like time woud stand still, but we used to do so much more."
"Like what?" Kurogane listens intently, not wanting to ask about the 'used to' part.
"We used to pretend we could do magic...we would sit alone outside and stare at the clouds or talk to the trees and when it snowed, that was always the best, we would stay out alll day catching snowflakes." Kurogane smiled lightly at the warmth that had crept into the blonde's words as he spoke.
"How old were you?"
"Six or seven. What was really bad was that our father caught us one time and when we tried to explain it to him he got this strange look on his face."
"What kind of look?"
"Wary, because I think he knew that we would see him for what he truly was...I guess that's part of the reason why-" The life that had started to burn behind those blue eyes sputtered and died like a drenched flame.
"We don't have to talk about that."
"You know your the first person I've ever told this to."
"I remember days were I would just think about you."
Both had prominent jobs. Kurogane a psychiatrist, Fai a photographer. Everyone can tell they aren't fully there. Both are distracted by the idea of each other. Both smile, surprising their fellow workers, and they like it.
"Just thinking about what you were doing and saying, I was consumed by it. I loved it so much, the feeling it brought me." Fai leaned against Kurogane as they sat on the hard bed.
"I felt the same." Kurogane kisses the top of the blondes head tenderly. Fai raises changing into a set of loose clothes Kurogane found in one of the storage rooms. Red eyes staring at him sent shivers down her spine.
"I used to watch you undress." Fai stands in only a pair of sweat pants that hang precariously on his slim hips. He blushes and smiles at his lover's words.
"I...never got tired of it, every time it was exciting, you were and are beautiful. Right until the end."
"What happened to us exactly?"
"You mean...you don't remember?" Fai shakes his head slowly. Kurogane only watches.
"The only thing I remember, something burning. Coffee burning." Fai stares hard, trying to remember.