“I haven’t really been sleeping.” She yawns before letting out a soft laugh and rolling over to prop her head on her hand. “I guess not many of us have, huh?”
“No one wants to go back,” he says, and her gaze drops as she mumbles something. “What?”
“I didn’t…experience it,” she says.
It’s barely audible over the rushing in his head. Any remotely possible hope is gone now, cast aside with the revelation. “Oh,” he says, almost a whimper. His voice cracks like a child’s as he buries his face in his arms. “That’s good.”
“I guess, yeah,” she says. “I do wonder what I would’ve seen.”
“You shouldn’t,” he whispers. “You don’t know how awful it feels to have it...stolen.” He shies away from her extended hand and hates himself the next instant for recoiling. “You couldn’t know. You shouldn’t. It’s not for you to bear.”
“Was it that bad, Raidou?”
She moves closer to peer up at him through his arms with uneasy eyes. “It wasn’t bad?”
“Losing y--” He stops himself just in time, body going rigid before turning abruptly away from her. Losing you was harder than anything I’ve ever gone through, is what he wants to say. He wants to take her and hold her and show her exactly what she missed in that time. “Losing...that world...was hard,” he says instead. “The dream was perfect. Waking up was the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.”
This week's featured fic is Ashes of Eden by thechaoscryptid.
E | 7,549 Words | Angst with a Happy Ending, Romance
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