Fall from Grace
By hye-kyo
Disclaimer: Standard disclaimers apply.
A/n: This is super random, I really don't know what came over me and why I started writing this. The idea may be absurd.
Title: Parallel
Rating: T
When she thought the world was going to end, she stood in front of him, stripped off her clothes and begged him to take her.
Minutes after he called her someone else. Since the world was going to end, she thought it okay. Being called someone else while being with someone other than that someone else was okay as long as the world was going to end.
A couple of hours after, when she sat on the tub with the tap running, with him on the bed sleeping, she received a call from Misao saying that the prophecy has miscalculated and that the ending of the world will be in another three days.
People like her, she discerned, were eager to get away from the world. It was not her world after all and that minutes after the end, she would find herself back in the world where she came from. She knew that, as soon as this world ends, the man with the red hair lying on the bed will be gone and that she will be flung back home to her own world. So that being called someone else while you're really someone else is alright as long as the world's going to end since memories and feelings, including hurt, will disappear together with the disintegration of this world.
But since Misao said it would be in another three days, she felt the telltale signs of tears in her eyes. She wondered, would there be a parallel Kenshin back in her world? If so, would there be a parallel someone else whom he would call on? Perhaps. She found herself crying, wishing that the prophecy hasn't been miscalculated and that the end of the world will happen now.
The shower curtain moved and she looked up to find him, eyes heavy from sleep and hair bedraggled from the tumble and he stepped into the tub, took her in his arms and whispered, "Is it really okay? For you to go without telling me?"
She did not hide her surprise. Three more days, now that she thinks about it, is just three days and three days pass fast and that working through this conversation like a normal human would mean that the issue would not be resolved in probably two days, two days and probably then there would still be some minor unresolved issues, and that would leave just one day for holding-hands, hugging, whispering, caressing, and finally lovemaking. And by that time, as she would make her way through her unforgettable orgasm she would be transported back to her world never to realize where the heck that orgasm came from. And it all would be a dream.
"You know?" she finally responded. Just that simple thought took a couple of seconds.
"Of course. You think you could leave like this?"
"I'm Kaoru if you're missing that."
"I know you're Kaoru. That's why I was asking you," he said. He had started kissing her neck, she had leant her head against the side of the tub. She could feel the distinctive bulge against her inner thigh and she thought that she could make do with three days of lovemaking with him. Even if he calls her someone else. Besides every feeling will disappear in three days.
"Ah," she didn't respond. She closed her eyes and felt him move against her, within her, the water warm around her. "Did you know that everything will end in three days?"
"I know," he said. "That's why I called you someone else."
"Hn? What do you mean?" she touched his hair, kissed the bridge of his nose and the lobe of his ear. She murmured his name and whispered many wordless phrases as he moved.
"Do you think the prophecy miscalculates?" he stopped his ministrations and met her eyes.
"What do you mean?" she watched his purple eyes flash gold as if in mischief.
"It's easy to tamper with the prophecy," he said, "I'm a rocket scientist if you get my drift."
A tug pulled at the corner of her lips. No she did not understand.
"The world ended for most people like you minutes ago." He smiled, kissed the corners of her mouth soundly and continued, "Coming back is harder than not coming back."
Her eyes remained trained at him.
"I just made sure you missed the message the moment they sent it," he kissed her full bottom lip. "I had Misao misinform you of the time of the end of the world."
"She told me it was bound in three days," she kissed him back.
"Just to let you stay here a couple more minutes. Because if you didn't until I wake up, you would be wandering around the streets thinking why you're still here. Truth is, I had earlier told her to tell you the wrong time."
"Then when was it?"
"While I was making love to you," he moved again, "I called you another person's name because Misao said hurt distracts the signal. I wanted you to miss the signal in case you hear it and I'm explaining in case you still didn't get it."
"You mean…"
"Your world is not a parallel world. I have no Kaoru here. You have no Kenshin there. Why you came here in the first place I still don't understand. But what I understand is that you were meant to come here and stay here. With me." The tub was almost full and the water was spilling.
She started crying, broke into a laugh and relaxed into a smile. "With you sounds nice."
A/n: So? Absurd? Yeah I know.