Title: Beginnings
Pairing: Shishido/Choutarou
Word Count: 103
Rating: PG
Summary: I waited before I knew what waiting was called.

Shishido’s world is strips of memory.

He was - he used to be - a Hyoutei boy. Arrogant tilt of chin and slanted eyes. Hair like coffee, vanity like breathing.

Then there was Choutarou, and everything that existed previously fizzled and died and rose again.

Stadium lights glaring behind his eyelids. The pop of tendons. Favours and flight and Pain. Shishido-san. Cold hands and warm silver. I’m sorry. Fingertips tracing ugly bruises. Salt leaking from rueful eyes as they cradle bloody elbows. Kiss me, please, Shishido-san. It’s the longest night of his life.
Without Choutarou, everything shimmers and fades like fever dreams.

END