What I Can Get

[wrong.livejournal.com]

Challenge: Winter
Title: What I Can Get
Word Count: 169
Notes: This is really more of a follow-up to Like No One's Looking, although I'm quite sure it could be a stand-alone. If you are planning to read LNOL, I advise if you read it first before reading the drabble. As for the drabble, I think it hints at the theme rather than say it outright. Enjoi.

Sora?

Will you find me?

They wouldn’t have understood. Losing Riku’s heart, losing Riku was one thing, but he still had Riku’s body with him. Mickey had offered to keep the body in his castle, sleeping until Sora could find his heart again.

He said no, looking at the doll-like expression on Riku’s face. No, he would be taking Riku home with him. No, he would not be journeying anymore. No, he was too tired.

Sora wondered if he was being selfish. Maybe if he spent another hundred years, another thousand years, deep in searching, maybe he could find Riku’s heart again.

If Riku allowed him to.

The body stirred, shifted slightly on the bed as he entered the room. Frost hung from the ceilings and on the bedsheet, but he wasn’t perturbed, crawling onto the duvet. A pale hand reached slowly out to him, and he took it, ignoring the cold touch. He settled the pale body against his own, stroking the brittle, frost-studded hair.

Did you find me?

‘No.’

“You were all I could find.”

Comments

[wrong.livejournal.com]

It's more of a follow-up. And it's a what-if kind of story for Kingdom Hearts. It is meant to be creepy, meant to be disturbing, actually. But that's me.

Thank ye for the kind words.

[fightfair.livejournal.com]

Ah, fits with the first fic very well indeed. Good to see what's going on inside Sora's head during it. I like how you dealt with Sora's fatigue, the one time he's not selfless, the sheer exhaustion from searching. There's a lot of things in this drabble that make me want to wince for him. xD

[wrong.livejournal.com]

I prefer this because I felt it's more focused. And the imagery is very, very pretty in my eyes.

Plus, when I re-read it again, even I get a creepy feeling from Riku. *glee*

[nilladriel.livejournal.com]

I love stories with not-Riku in them. This made me shudder, especially the way you illustrated the coldness using the frost. Makes me sad, how Sora willingly goes into that cold just to be able to hold someone who isn't really there.

[wrong.livejournal.com]

Actually, Riku is there. Just...er, not there either. Hmmm...Like No One's Looking would explain it better, but I'm happy you can see it as a stand-alone. ^__^

[nilladriel.livejournal.com]

That's why I call him not-Riku. XD Sorry for you to misunderstand, la.

[ichbinfishstick.livejournal.com]

Your fic was so...unexpected that I love it. Yeah. I was a bit creeped out because I so did not expect that (like one of those corny horror movies that make you jump and scare you when you think about it in the middle of the night).

And this drabble is an amazing follow-up to it <3 Yeah... Still shocked :|