hey hey! so school's out, meaning I can update all my fics! (and hopefully finish some...) since pikashipper4eva was insisting that we update our Akagami no Shirayukihime fics together, this was posted. you can expect more updates in the near future! enjoy!
Theme~ #17: Scared of the Dark
Obi had long since stopped being scared of the dark.
His teeth clench as his eyes flicker beneath the lids. The sounds of his shallow breathing are harsh in the silence of the room.
He had to be after spending countless nights alone with only the sky for a blanket and the stars for company. That, of course, had come after realizing that there wouldn't always be tinder and flame at hand.
Distantly, he can taste the cold fear encasing his heart, groping its way up his throat to mix with the coppery flavor leaking from his tongue.
He'd spend the sleepless hours thinking of anything and everything. Anything and everything else to drown out all the clamoring in the corners of his mind.
He can feel the shadows stretch to hover over him, black and shapeless and trailing barely-there fingertips of ice up his spine.
The whispers echo in his ears to beat deafeningly within his ribcage and against his skull, tugging more memories with each pulse. Hoarse screams, cold steel in his hands, and warm blood.
"It was for a reason," he chokes out dazedly.
He bears it for a minute more before his eyes snap open. Clambering out of bed and onto the windowsill of his room, he hisses as the night air chills his skin, trying to focus on the blurred outlines of the palace grounds below.
But he isn't afraid. He can't afford to be.
"I'm not," he mutters. "I'm not, I'm not, I'm not…"
I said last chapter that I'd delve some more into Obi's character himself, so I did. we still don't know where he came from and what he's done, so I thought I'd write some more about it. but never fear ObixShirayuki fans! there's more shipping goodness to come!
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