Notes:
Weiss Kreuz is property of Koyasu Takehito, Kyoko Tsuchiya, Marine Entertainment, and Project Weiss.

Fic was originally published around Christmastime, even though it's not really a 'Christmas Fic'.

- White Kiss [formerly Rina Garet]
03/26/02, 6:51 pm

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Like the song, winter nights for us are silent, although not like you might expect.

It's not the silence of a sweet, warm family cozy at home, with snow falling softly outside and children dreaming in their beds. It's not the silence of dying embers in a cooling fireplace, that only hours before was blazing and bright. It's not the silence of a city at rest, sleeping peacefully in wait of morning.

It's the silence of killers at work.

It's the quiet of hunters at night, hushed breath in the dark, listening for the next call on the intercom.

It's the quiet of Weiß on another mission.

It doesn't matter that it's Christmas Eve, and people are at home, enjoying the holiday with their families. It doesn't matter that we all used to be normal, too, and have loved ones in our lives to spend this time with.

All that matters is that we banish another black-soulled criminal from the face of this earth before the next morning dawns.

I crouch down in the snow, and I can see my breath in front of my face. Fingers tighten in the warmth of my gloves, clench down on the catch that makes my weapon spring into action. My ears strain for any sounds over the four-way intercom, waiting for orders, signals, messages.

Hidaka Ken is ready to stain his soul with the blood of yet one more faceless criminal.

And no one can see the tears that spill down my cheeks.