Title: The Remedy
Pairing: Jyouyako
Based on: Abandoned Pools – The Remedy
Notes: I like this one too. It ought to go without saying that the 'she' in this is Miyako, hence the pairing. Basing drabbles on songs is really very interesting. A quick (but rather important) note: I've lost my notebook, which is disastrous because it has my pairings list in it to ensure that they're chosen randomly. Until I find a way around this problem, there will be no drabble updates; rest assured that I will find a solution if it kills me.
Jyou watches her. She draws him in and she knows it; that's what makes the pain that little bit sharper. She'll flirt and she'll flaunt herself with all the subtlety of a brick through a window, all the while a cold glaze over her eyes telling Jyou that he can never touch her.
This isn't what makes him angry. What makes him angry is that others can touch her, and he is subjected to an unobstructed view of it almost every day. Sometimes he'll see her clasped in an intimate hug with Ken, and she'll purposefully catch his eye while tightening her arms. Other times her feet will be tangled with Daisuke's, or Koushiro's fingers will be absently sifting through her hair.
A part of him despises her for taunting him so openly. But he can't stop wanting her, can't stop watching her, and he knows his pain is as much his fault as it is hers.
He threw himself into his studies in an attempt to get over her, tried to develop an interest in other girls; he even asked Yamato to set him up with someone, which he did. And she was a nice girl, pretty and smart, but she didn't even come close to assuaging his craving for his tormentor. So he went back for more, clinging desperately to that thin scrap of hope that had over the years become both his best friend and his worst enemy.
Because he knows that she could make him happy. But he also knows that she won't.