I'm back! I took a week off for the holidays but I kept writing! This is actually the fifth piece I wrote but the third one I'm publishing. It seems whenever I write Vanitas he turns out to be either ridiculously angsty or perverse. And I don't know which one is perverse. So I'm changing up the order of chapters so you guys aren't bombarded by angsty Vanitas (unless you're into that sorta thing).
This one's in Aqua's point of view. The song is Taking Over Me by Evanescence.
Enjoy! I really liked writing this one.
Taking Over Me
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I lie awake and try so hard not to think of you
But who can decide what they dream?
And dream I do...
She could see him again, her dreams had taken a darker turn ever since their first meeting in Radiant Garden. He haunted her, stalking her behind endless darkness; in her dreams she'd run but he'd follow, laughing at her desperation to get away.
A hand clamped on her arm and she was whipped around to see a black mask. Though she couldn't see his face, she knew he was leering at her. "Got you." He whispered and the darkness would envelop her in a cold embrace.
She screamed and then she woke up sweating.
I believe in you
I'll give up everything just to find you
Suddenly, the masked boy—Vanitas—took refuge inside her mind, she saw him not only in her dreams but whenever she closed her eyes. When she was supposed to be looking for Terra and Ven, she found herself looking a the shadows hoping to see a dark figure.
There was something festering in her heart and it was growing.
I have to be with you to live, to breathe
You're taking over me
What was he doing to her? Aqua tried to steady herself after another dream of running away from him. This time, he had caught her again and pinned her down, trapping her in darkness... and his arms. She shook her head vigorously, trying to forget how strong and muscular his arms felt. How would she even know what being in his arms felt like?
The again, she had crossed Keyblades with him—she knew his strength. Breathe. She told herself, just breathe, it's just a phase.
I look in the mirror and see your face
If I look deep enough
So many things that are just like you are taking over
Now Aqua was certain she was going crazy, not only was she seeing Vanitas in her dreams, she was seeing him in her waking hours too? In the corner of her vision, she'd see a dark figure and she'd turn, certain that it was the real him—only to see nothing. "What is going on?" She asked aloud.
It was getting harder and harder to distinguish reality from fantasy.
"Letting your guard down, Aqua?" She shrieked and turned around, Rainfell at the ready and once again, saw nothing.
But she could have sworn that it was Vanitas's words that breezed past her ear just now.
You're taking over me
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Vanitas laughed from his spot in the shadows, cleverly hiding from the blue-haired Keyblade master. His life had gotten so much better when he learned how to manipulate the darkness in another's heart. He had watched his Master do it enough times to Terra to figure out how to do it to Aqua. And all it took were a few whispered words in her ear while she slept and a nudge of darkness to her dreams. To add fuel to the fire, he would appear to her, just a little out of view so that she could catch sight of his figure before teleporting away and making her question herself over and over again.
It was so surprising to him that she didn't realize what was going on, that darkness was growing in her heart. Maybe she was welcoming it? His lips pulled back in a feral grin, maybe she already had a little bit of attraction to him already? He knew he made a fantastic first impression on her. Oh if he could enter her dreams! What fun they could have! What he would do to her.
Just a little more; he chuckled when Aqua cried out in her sleep—when would she start crying out his name? Just a little more darkness and then she would be his for the taking.
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Reviews are most welcome, I appreciate them a lot!