Nana: Oi, sorry for the wait. I've been in Canada, and now I'm home and I'm exhausted but sleep is impossible, so this drabble is a product of my insomnia. Whoo yay?

Aki In The Bath

Title: Bear The Storm

Prompt: 070. Storm

Rating: PG-13

Hatori, you wouldn't like it, but sometimes it pretend it is you who is ailing. You who is forced into bed with volcanic fevers almost daily, you who must reign over the Sohma from that bed. You who must live in fear and pain and count the days until your death. Lying to myself makes me feel better, at first. Sets me free; and then I think; you would bear the storm better than I do. You would ache so silently that we would not even know. And now all I can get from my game is a guilt trip.