Penname: Demented Bunny
Original or Derivative: Derivative - Vampire Knight
Rating/warning(s)/note(s):M - For my own enjoyment.
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Prompt: Speedily
He promised to return soon, speedily he said. He kissed her lips and her hands and promised, and she believed him.
And she waited, days turned to weeks and weeks to years. But he didn't come.
There was a letter for her every week at first, but soon they grew shorter and fewer. And then they stopped entirely. He only wrote once more then, just to say he missed her, that one line and nothing more.
It gave her hope.
And then no more letters until one day he just turned up, on the doorstep.
With his luggage and a grim smile and he encased her in his arms, inhaling in her natural scent.
He grumbled that he was sorry and she pushed him away, asking where he'd been this past year.
"Sorting myself out", he mumbled, letting himself inside, he nodded at his surroundings before placing himself at the edge of the sofa. She asked him what that meant and he replied "I wasn't ready Yukki, to come home, the war changed me and I was angry and bitter and I knew I couldn't come back to you like that, so I stayed away".
Yukki shook her head and wiped her tears on the tea towel in her hands. She informed him that that just wasn't good enough and he stood suddenly, he strode over to her and placed his hands on her shoulders in that comforting way she remembered.
"I wasn't the same man Yukki, but I'm me again and I'm ready to be yours again".
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