Indiscriminate Happenings
Fandom: xxxHoLiC
Characters/Pairing: Yuuko, Haruka, implied Doumeki/Watanuki
Prompt:10:1- Poison
Rating: T
Chapter Genre: Revelations/Idon'tknowwhattosay
Summary: Companion to 'Perception' and 'Haven.' And the reasons behind the illness become clear.
PS Yuuko rules all.
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The extraction had taken hours and the strain had Shizuka unconscious, laying still on a bed that was already in the room when they first carried Watanuki. Yuuko sat perched on the back of a chair, her feet somehow balancing the weight. Haruka decided not to dwell, opting instead to discuss his young charges condition.
"So what exactly was it?" he asked, nodding his head to indicate at the small black ball that had been extracted from Watanuki's soul. Yuuko flicked it up, catching it and repeating the action as she pondered the answer.
"It's a poison," she replied, catching it between her thumb and index finger and holding it out enough for Haruka to properly observe it. "It infiltrates your body first, usually planted in something imbibed through the mouth."
"The medication," Haruka murmured thoughtfully, recalling several other patients that suffered from sudden and inexplicable fainting spells and seizures. Yuuko, being who she was, dipped her head in agreement to his quick connection.
"Yes. It is created by negative emotions; the lethality of the poison depends on the strength of the emotions." She glanced over at the unnaturally still body of the patient, then over to Haruka's grandson, sleeping as motionless as he always did. Even as a child he slept like the dead. "This one would have killed him if not for Shizuka-kun. After all, your own innate abilities would have gone only so far to assist him."
"Of course," Haruka responded amiably, a smile crinkling the laugh lines around his eyes. "Even with all my efforts, it wouldn't have worked without the bond those two have slowly been forming."
"It helps that they are tied together," Yuuko stated, amusement quirking her lips as she slipped the sphere into her pocket. "Even the freedom Shizuka-kun has from Hitsuzen cannot alter that fact."
"Of course not." Haruka sat back, disregarding the fact that there was no smoking inside and lighting himself a cigarette. All that was left now was to wait for the two to wake up and they could set about finding the perpetrator that was nearly responsible for the death of his adopted grandson.
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Yeah, this pretty well finishes that series off. I couldn't figure out anything else to do for this one and I had left the other two hanging for this, so yeah. Here you be~! ^^