I've been away. I'm back now. This drabble: Fye/Kurogane. Challenge: stained. SPOILERS to chapter 125.

Falling Down

The first time he breaks it's after a battle.

Kurogane looks at him when he walks in, dawning recognition in his eyes, and his smirk is both challenge and triumph. Fye hears his heart pounding, smells the sweet salt rush of life in his veins. He staggers forwards.

Somewhere in the middle of it he finds the desperate gulping motions of his mouth change to caresses, finds his hands wandering downward, finds Kurogane gasping, boneless, beneath him.

Afterwards there are stains of blood and semen on their clothes, and Fye can't look Kurogane in the eyes for a long time.