Promise

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In which I try my hardest to sympathize with Kairi. I'm a slash fan, I swear!

Challenge: Breaking
Title: Promise
Word count: 343
Rating: G
Notes: SPOILERS for the end of KH. Shounen-ai so delicately implied, you'll miss it if you sneeze.



“Kairi, I’ll come back to you! I promise!”

Sometimes she awakes with the words ringing in her mind, chest burning with raw hope. ’He’ll come back,’ she tells herself. ’He promised he would.’ On the nights she dreams of the past she gets to see Sora’s face, and sometimes she greets the sunrise through tear-filled eyes.

But sometimes she dreams of things far away, violent and terrifying and hopelessly out of her control. Sora’s face is there, but now it’s contorted in fear or pain, breath haggard as he fights the monsters she hates him for seeking. It hurts, but her tears are caught somewhere between her resentment and worry, the ache too strong to be expressed. On the nights she dreams of the present, her eyes remain dry.

And all because he wants to find him. She wants him to be happy, for them both to be happy, but she knows they’re more likely to find death then joy in the shadows they left to pursue. Willingly left to pursue. ’If you loved him as much as I did,’ she whispers when she allows herself a traitorous thought, ’You would have forced him to stay. I would have taken care of him, he could have spent the rest of his life in peace. What do you have that’s so worth chasing?’

She begins marking the days on the wall, pushing aside her bed to make small, secret etchings in the corner. But the corner is soon too small, and her wall slowly becomes filled with them. They are no longer a comfort but a constant reminder, each slice of her whittling knife cutting through the plaster to chip at her already dwindling faith. ’He promised, he promised, he promised,’ she reminds herself when the urge to wake up and admit that he’s gone tugs at the fringes of her wavering trust. ’He promised he would come back, and he will.’

But at night, when she hears him call Riku’s name and journey ever deeper into the darkness, she feels the promise breaking.

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Comments

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XD Keyword "almost". There's only so much imagery and realistic emotion can do, eh?

Yeah, I figure everyone's got something to offer, and just because what they offer sucks! isn't exactly what you'd prefer doesn't mean they should be shoved off to the side and forgotten. Even though a lot of slash fans are against the female leads, I see way more flaming done by anti-slash people over yaoi pairings then slash authors over het ones. We'll grow up when they do XP

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