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This story's got SAD parts. It also includes things I don't condone and do not advise you to do like- cheating, drinking, keeping secrets, holding onto silly angst, or mixing whiskey and rum. If you do it, I hold no responsibility.

So. Enough of that, more importantly,

This story is DEDICATED TO kurono-aijin!

This is all for you Kuro, who wanted long fics from the sentences challenges. (Sorry it's such a crappy fic) K. Shutting up now.

ENJOY!

#04 - Wishes

It had been over too soon. That was her thought as she sat, on her bed, miserably staring out the window at the moon. This was ridiculous. She should be happy, be sucked into that expected newly-wed bliss... It hadn't happened. Her husband was sweet, caring and extremely in love with her, but.. she wasn't. Not with him.

What was wrong with her? Falling for someone who simply could never love her? He was a daemon, for crying out loud! Well, she was married. Time to move on. Time to stop this crazy unrequited love of hers and fall in love with her husband. She had been cruel for far too long.

A star fell from the sky, and Yako smiled bitterly, her heart filled with pain.

And she wished, whispering silently, hoping against all odds that one day, Neuro would love her back.

It had been over too soon. He thought that to himself, resting on the ceiling of the Detective Agency. Night had fallen and the windows displayed a starry sky complete with a moon. Neuro twisted his head towards the window, thinking. It had been over too soon, that period of the Louse's life where he and he alone was truly the only one who controlled her. It annoyed him. But he knew it would happen, sooner or later.

She was mated now, that ridiculous evolved human he had spent his time on, and all his efforts were for naught. The Louse would want children, no doubt, an entire brood of little louses, and very soon she would be too busy to solve mysteries.

Pah. He didn't need her. She was useless. He had only allowed the marriage because it helped her to seem normal, to be like many of her pathetic species. If she didn't marry, it would be an oddity. Neuro was decidedly cool about the whole affair. Once he had known, about the relationship and what it might lead to, he had to agree. Marriage really was the best idea in the end. It ensured that the humans would be interested in the Louse and stop paying attention to him so much.

At least that's what he kept telling himself, as he sat alone for many nights in his office at the agency.

Neuro was truly alone. All his slaves were elsewhere or dead, permanently. Neuro dropped to the floor, stood and lay down on the couch. He closed his eyes, thinking back to that night. The last dance. It had been nice. The Louse had been warm and had fit perfectly in his arms- he must be turning human at an alarming rate if he had thoughts like that. But still.. That night.. He hadn't wanted to let go when the music stopped. And when he saw that mate of hers.. how strange.. Rage. That was what he had felt. White hot rage burning through him as he watched the man claim the Louse, kissing her. He opened his eyes and glanced out the window again, to redirect his thoughts. The moon still hung in the sky..but what was that? Neuro fixed his eyes at the sky as a burst of light shot through the sky.. that was what the humans called a shooting star, was it not? His mouth quirked for a moment, his mind filled with humans' oh so odd habits and traditions. Right.. When a human saw a shooting star, they made a wish, right? Heh, silly humans..

He propped himself up on one elbow, still actively watching the star. Daemons didn't make wishes. They didn't dream and they didn't feel as humans did. But since Neuro did dream and did at times feel as humans did.. Well, he had never been one to follow the norm anyway. And so, he grinned and wished with the an image of the Louse in his mind.