Prompt: no prompt, just a character study about Bourbon disguising himself as Akai
Characters/Relationships: Amuro, Vermouth, Akai
There was something Rye-Akai Shuichi-used to say over and over again, his mouth a sly curve: "I never forget the face of an enemy."
Rei looked in the mirror. The disguise that Vermouth had constructed for him was still in place.
Piercing green eyes, sharp cheekbones, dark curls that swept over his forehead.
Then there was the burn scar on his cheek. It was a neat dramatic touch; Rei's suggestion, not Vermouth's.
"My, my, Bourbon," she had said, "we'll make a thespian of you yet. I'm sure it'll shock that little kitten Starling."
Jodie Starling had been shocked. She was another one of Akai's girlfriends wasn't she - like Miyano Akemi - and that was really Akai Shuichi, with all those people who trusted him but all he did was lead them into danger. He would lie, or get them involved in things they shouldn't be involved in, or get them killed, or any combination of the above.
(Scotch had trusted Rye, and right now, Rei was wearing Rye's fucking face-)
Hands shaking, Rei tore the mask off. He took off those sharp sniper's eyes and slight pointed nose. He took off Akai Shuichi.
He turned on the faucet in front of him and tried to scrub all the traces away.
When he looked at the mirror again, he thought that he could still see Akai's face.
