Title: What the Universse Holds

Pairings: Kurogane/Fai, Yasha/Ashura, others

Rating: M

Prompt:

Word Count: 1,125

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.

Lights shine on the rain streaked window. The coffee maker is on, the coffee burning, as the pot begins to smoke. Fai's body is stretched across the couch.

Fai looks at Kurogane, realization dawning on his face. The taller man has been dreading this.

Kurogane was yelling angrily at Fai, Fai's crying at the words, something that has never happened before.

Fai eyes begin to water with tears, Kurogane brings him closer holding him to his chest.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." Kurogane tries to console the blonde who's devasted. Fai clutches Kurogane's shirt tightly, his knuckles turning white.

"Why did you say those things?" Fai's voice is muffled in the other's shirt.

"I don't know. I didn't understand why you didn't tell me."

Fai is laying on their red couch, dead. A crumbled note clutched in one hand. Kurogane kneels beside him eyes narrowed in pain.

"When you said you wouldn't make it, I don't know why I didn't believe you. I don't think I took you seriously...which is worse." Kurogane held the lanky man tightly in his arms.

Kurogane brings the cold body in his arms, kissing dull blonde bangs.

"I should have believed you."

"How long do I need to take these?" Fai is taking some pills,

"Just until you start feeling better, the doctor said it would help you." Kurogane watches knowing that this is hopefully for the better. Fai nods.

Kurogane moves from the bed where Fai is asleep. Kurogane talked to Syaoran over the videophone.

"This is happening, Kurogane, you need to wake up and see that."

"..."

"Who are you trying to convince?" Kurogane looks at the sleeping blonde, he notices the dried tear stains on flushed cheeks.

"It will end badly." Kurogane didn't say anything. "Let's all meet tomorrow, Yasha has some ideas about making it stop."

",,,he died, because our father was afraid of us after that, he thought it best to get rid of us. Yuui died because of it. I was the only one left."

Kurogane said nothing, hoping his presense was enough.

Both of them are eating inside Kurogane's room. Fai stops to look at his lover.

"Kuro-seme, do you know how much I like having sex with you?" Kurogane would have choked on his drink, but he was used to the blonde's bluntness. He smirked around his cup instead.

"Hn, I think I do."

"Good." They lean towards eachother, seeking comfort in the other. Kurogane whispers to the lean figure pressed against his side.

"You know, I'll agree to whatever you believe about Solaris. I'll be the little wife agreeing with his big, strong husband. You must get such a headache thinking about it."

He likes the familiarity as he stares at him. This type of teasing, the nicknames, it reminds him of when things used to be wonderful.

Fai was on his hands and knees on the bed, bracing himself. Kurogane was behind him, covering Fai's back, his hips thrusting hard. The room filled with their moans, the sound of skin against skin, and harsh pants.

Kurogane growled as his hips stilled; Fai had already climaxed with Kurogane inside him and around him.

Kurogane nuzzled Fai's damp hair, taking in the scent of sweat. Fai had fallen forward on the bed, resting on his forearms. He reached back threading it through the other's hair.

Kurogane removed himself, settling them both down on the rumpled sheets. Fai laughed as he cuddled into the man's chest.

"Kuro-pyon says 'God' alot when we do it."

"I know." Kurogane nuzzled the blonde. They both stared for a moment.

"What does Syaoran think you should do?"

"Syaoran thinks we shouldn't leave until we figure out how to prove it's existence to Earth. He thinks it's God, but he wants to show it to everyone on Earth."

"Yasha wants to destroy it." Fai looks sad as he lowers his gaze.

"He doesn't think it's God, he's afraid because he doesn't understand it."

"It was obvious from the moment he first saw me." Kurogane held the blonde closer.

"Kuro-yam, do I really feel like, I'm...?"

"Yes."

"Then I'm glad." Fai snuggled deeper into the embrace. Solaris turns slowly outside the window.

"Everything you pursue, you end up becoming bored with it. The fact that you're good at everything you try just makes it worse." Kurogane stops talking for a moment to look at Fai whose laying in their bed, naked, just staring at the ceiling.

"Imagine my frustration." It's said coldly, Kurogane moves from the chair he's was in and to the bed.

Fai wakes up to see his lover sound asleep. He looks around anxiously until heis movements wake up the other man.

"What's wrong." Kurogane is still half asleep as he looks worriedly at him.

"You don't love me, do you?"

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm not Fai, that Fai died, he killed himself...I'm different." Kurogane just stares, he knows he's treading on thin ice, this is dangerous.

"Who have you been talking to?"

"Yasha." Fai doesn't lie this time, especially now when there's no need.

"When I'm asleep?" He can only imagine what those conversations were like.

"I'm just trying to understand what's going on." He turns to look at Kurogane. "How have you lived the past few years? Did you love anyone?"

Kurogane can only nod, he knows that Fai knows the answer already.

"But we fought alot."

"Yeah, we fought seriouslt towards the end." Both are staring at their hands by now.

"Why did he?" Fai looks up.

"You, he said I didn't love him."

"Did you?"

"I love you." Kurogane says it in all seriousness, no anger, no sadness.

"I love you too." Fai says it as a reflex, but he means it. Fai falls asleep soon after. Kurogane rests beside him.

All of them are in the conference room. They've been arguing and debating for over an hour.

"Mihara was helpless. He had created the science that discovered Solaris, and the ship that brought us here." Yasha explained.

"Why did you agree to come here? You've lost it." Yasha turns to Kurogane and glares at Fai.

"You're a coward. I'm just as human as you are. I see, I touch, I taste, Ifeel just like you do." Fai stared icily at the long haired man.

"You're not human, try to understand that!" Kurogane moves swiftly his face only inches away from Yasha's.

"Leave now." Slowly Yasha leans forward and whispers in Kurogane's ear.

"Fai's dead, he's just a copy. He's seducing you all over again, can't you see that? You think screwing him is part of some kind of research. It's onlu fucking."

Kurogane moves away, glaring.

"It'd be hilarious if it weren't so sad." Yasha turned and left.

"We didn't even get to hear his new ideas." Syaoran had been tense over the entire conversation. Syaoran rises and goes to the door mumbling about feeling sick.

The surface of Solaris shifts like a large ocean.