Title: What the Universe Holds

Pairings: Kurogane/Fai, Yasha/Ashura, others

Rating: M

Prompt: # 97 Ghost

Word Count:

Warnings: Yaoi, death, angst, romance, language

Notes: AU based on the movie Solaris; Most of the dialogue is taking from the movie.

Disclaimer: Solaris (both movie and novel) and the CLAMP characters are not mine.

"They come when you sleep."

"That's right and we all have to sleep sometime." Syaoran shrugs at Kurogane.

Kurogane and Fai are asleep. Kurogane bolts upright the sound of footsteps in the room waking him.

"Mihara?"

"Leave the lights off." Kurogane tries to think clearly.

"I wish you had come sooner, maybe then I wouldn't have killed myself." The scientist smiles at his friend.

"You think you're dreaming me, like you do him. Understand this that I am the real Mihara just a new incarnation."

"What do you want?"

"To tell you Yasha has an idea of getting rid of the visitors."

"Will it work?"

"Yes. I'm here to warn you. Don't trust anyone; find yourself a weapon of some sort."

"I can trust Fai." Kurogane looks determined.

"You'll end up like me."

"You're not Mihara."

"Who am I then?"

"A puppet."

"What about you? Maybe you're my puppet. But like all puppets you think you're human. It's the puppet's dream, wondering if their human." Mihara smiles again.

Kurogane wakes up, his lungs burning for air, Fai wakes up startled.

"Kuro-pin, what's wrong?"

"Mihara, he talked to me, he was here." Kurogane clutches his head.

"But I thought you said he was dead?"

"He spoke to me." Kurogane leaves the room with Fai close behind. Kurogane goes to the lab where Mihara's body is laid out, the girl isn't with him.

"I love you...I never said it enough back then."

"Don't, I'm the one at risk here. If we're playing out what happened before, I won't survive." Kurogane walks over to Fai.

"It'll be different."

"How do you know? You're all I know, there was no 'you' from before." Fai looks forward depressed.

There in a bookstore, Fai's looking at a book of poems; Kurogane's resting against the shelf in front of him. "Marry me."

"I'm not going to marry you." Fai says it with no ill intentions, but with a real smile.

Kurogane wakes u to see he's alone in bed. A bad feeling crawls into his gut as he leaves. In the lab he finds Fai on the ground, his throat and part of his face eaten cleanly away. A small canister lying on the ground.

Kurogane lefts him up and takes him away. Syaoran pokes his head into the hall way.

"What happened?"

"He drank liquid oxygen." Both men go to Kurogane's room. The blonde placed down on the bed. Kurogane strokes Fai's hair.

"He's dead." Syaoran looks sadly at the older man. As they stare their shocked to see one of Fai's fingers twitch. Fai starts to shake.

"He'll come back. I think that he can only live here, that he'll die if he leaves here, but it's only a theory." Syaoran looks on as Kurogane stares at Fai who looks like he's having a seizure.

Fai's body starts convulsing, he continues to wake up. He slowly begins to return to normal.

'I never get used to these resurrections." Syaoran leaves. Kurogane places a shaking hand on Fai's forehead. Fai opens his eyes and realizes he should be dead. The blonde begins to cry.

"Why, why can't I die? I'm not Fai, you've always known that."

"Fai-"

"Don't call me that." Fai snaps at him.

"I'm not going back, I'm staying here with you.''

"Then you'll die." Fai looks coldly at him, eyes a dark shade of blue.

"I want to spend every second I can with you."

"But what will I do if you die?" Kurogane can't answer.

"Do you think I can get pregnant here?" Fai is resting beside Kurogane on the bed.

"We'll know soon."

"I can't be a mother." It's what Fai had whispered to him at Tomoyo's party.

"That's...good to know."

Kurogane is at their apartment, packing a bag. He never thought he would do this, but he never thought Fai would do that.

"Please, don't do this. I'm begging you, Kurogane." His full name is used, it's serious.

"You should have told me." Kurogane refuses to look at the blonde.

"It wouldn't have made a difference. I had to Kurogane; I didn't know you would react like this."

"Neither did I."

"You never said you wanted one."

"I never said I didn't."

"Kurogane-" Fai is about to cry.

"I can't stay here."

"Please, I won't make it." Fai wants to hold Kurogane back, to keep the man from leaving.

"Then you won't make it." Kurogane leaves, brushing past Fai. A few hours later and Fai lays unconscious on the couch.

Fai has curled in on himself, sobbing. Kurogane is trying to console him.

"I came back; you know that, I came back that night."

Kurogane reaches for the note in Fai's hand as he kneels beside him.

"I couldn't make it either, I'm so sorry." Fai has calmed down slightly, while Kurogane wraps his arms around the blonde.