Title: Smile
Rating: K
Pairing: KyoyaXRenge, TamakiXRenge, KyoyaXHaruhi
Prompts: fake, false, phony
WARNING: This is AU!
Renge stood with a smile on her face. It was a fake smile for the fake 'friends' her world revolved around. Everything was polished with beauty but on the inside ugly, sickening fake was all there existed.
In this plastic world she dwelled, a pretty doll that was supposed just to be there and smile. Her mouth hurt from so much smiling, her lips felt like falling off and her face felt like cracking. But she played her role as did the others. Smile, smile, smile.
Renge was perfect; she was perfectly broken by this world of hers. But she couldn't grieve; that meant letting go of her smile, a smile that she had worked at for years.
Her fake husband wrapped his arm around her waist and smiling was all she could do to keep from having a breakdown at their very own party. From the corner of her eye she spotted Haruhi. How she envied Haruhi! Why did every man in her life have to love Haruhi?
That damned witch looked so happy with Kyoya. Renge knew it wasn't possible but she had the feeling that Haruhi was mocking her. Her husband tightened his grip around her as he also saw his best friend with the woman he loved. Yet Tamaki just stared and Renge had the urge to stomp oh his foot, because fake is fake and that's what their marriage was.
Tamaki didn't love his wife, Renge and she never loved him. Pity and empathy, that was what they build their relationship on. Sickening pity and exasperating empathy. They could never be more, would never be and they honestly didn't want to be more.
Broken as she was Renge still offered Tamaki a measure of peace and mournful as he was Tamaki still took care of Renge. Because even if the marriage was fake their friendship wasn't. Tamaki cared for Renge, he just didn't love her, and his wife knew it was the same for her.
Tamaki was a good man. Renge was a good woman. It was just their union that wasn't good.
Fake may be illusions but they didn't hurt as much as reality.
I wanted to do something tragic. I keep seeing all these Kyoya/Haruhi stories and I couldn't help but wonder what it would be like if they did get together. How would Tamaki and Renge take it? How would they cope? This is what my brain came up with.