MixoMania

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Disclaimer : I guess I repeated enough that I did not own TRC. So I'll stop repeating myself. That's boring.

Short and painful chapter (from my point of view). Somehow those characters escaped me and started breathing air of they own. My little puppets… *sighs proudly*

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That's not love

"Why are you so nice to them?" Kurogane asked. "You don't really know them."

"We're all pretending, right?" Fay smiled. "You're pretending you're not gonna die, and they're pretending they don't know they love each other…"

"And you're pretending to be happy."

"I am happy. For now, until you're all gone."

Kurogane laid on the bed next to him. He had pushed Fay' soul where laid the actual Fay, and wondered.

"Do you think that could work? Pretending?"

"What do you mean?" Fay asked.

"I could pretend I love you."

"I don't think that'll work." Fay smiled. "Magic can't be fooled."

"How do we know, if we don't try?"

Fay and his soul rested almost on the same spot, and Kurogane bend a bit Fay's soul to make they faces coincide.

"Don't move", he ordered.

They he bent over to kiss him.

"That… that doesn't work", Fay said after a while.

However, Kurogane had not stopped kissing his soul, and Fay could still fell the warmth of his.

"Kurogane, it doesn't work", he repeated.

Kurogane opened his eyes and realised that Fay had sat down.

"Well of course, if you don't play along!" he shouted angrily. "Now do you really think it can work with you and your soul both in different positions?"

"But how could it be working Kuro-pu? What you're holding is the part of me that is dead."

Oh. That would explain why Fay had a soul of his own.

"Well that doesn't matter", Kurogane said. "And you get down there 'cause I'm not interested in kissing a stupid mage-like puppet."

Fay looked at him in shock.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"Well if I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die a happy man, and you're attractive enough to make me a happy man. Would you stop whining and lay down?"

Fay stood up.

"You'll soon realise that you don't need me being here to feel just fine, Kurogane."

He went to the kitchen, unaware that Kurogane had attempted to catch his arm and failed.

"All right then", thought the fairyman, angered.

And he went through what he had in mind, noticing happily that the mage did not knew that, from where Kurogane was, he could hear his moans all right.

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"I guess you're done", the mage said coming back from the kitchen.

Kurogane did not answer.

"And I guess you can call yourself a happy man."

"Don't say stupid things."

"How's that stupid?" Fay asked lightly.

He regained his side of the bed and laid there on his back.

"You where not here", Kurogane said.

"How was I not here?" Fay said. "You were holding my soul."

"That's no soul", Kurogane said. "That's merely a puppet. A warm, awesome puppet and that isn't you. That isn't you at all."

"Then why didn't you pick up any other of the puppets that are lying there with you?" the mage asked.

Kurogane pondered.

"I guess that's because this one looks like you."

Fay seemed angry.

"And you would've chose this one because you've crazy about me, right?" he mocked.

"I told you why. I find you attractive. That's not love."

"No it's not."

Kurogane turned his head to look at him.

"The one thing I don't get is why the thing isn't reacting. Well, it's supposed to be your soul, right?"

"I told you. I think it's the part of me that's dead."

"Well I'm not dead", Kurogane said. "I don't belong to this realm. I want to live, right? I just don't get it. Not even one of those corpses are rotten. Not one of them is cold. It's like if they where still alive, only not living."

"As I am", said Fay, "when I'm alone."

"Bullshit."

"What do you mean?"

"I think it's all bullshit. You're alive all right. It's that thing that's not real."

"Maybe", Fay said. "Now what?"

"If I'm really gonna die, I'd like to do the real you."

Fay chuckled. "Kuro-puppy's a stallion", he said.

"Don't call me a puppy!"

Fay started laughing so much he bumped his head.

"Ouch, I think I hit the bed!" he laughed.

Kurogane scratched his forehead. "Me too." He couldn't help but smile.