Poisonous Regret (Threefold Element)
Title: Poisonous Regret
Author: beloved_voices
Fandom: Threefold Element
Claim Focus: General Cast - Lucas, Karen
Theme: Rain
Disclaimer: Threefold Element is my own creation, and is copyright me.
Rating: PG
Warnings and Notes: hints of m/f relationships
The rain pelts down like cold arrows, piercing through his clothes to his skin in a bitter barrage. He can feel them together, has only to close his eyes to see Jacob wrapping around his new lover, their lips seeking each other's and their bodies fitting together as they gasp at how perfect it all seems. Lucas knows what they don't. He knows that it's perfect, that they were meant for each other, and that the bond that has already formed between them is unbreakable, irrevokable. He knew, back in the very beginning of it all, that Jacob wasn't for him, but still he let himself get attached, and now there is regret in the back of his soul, lurking there like a slow-moving poison. He's been tainted by it.
There are risks for his kind, dangers some would never expect, and regret is one of them. He's lived too long and seen too much. He knows how it can consume him, slowly eating away at his soul until all that's left is the corruption within him, and the perversion of his powers. There is a cure for it, but here and now, who will step forward to aid him? Who, of all the humans he's ever met, will make of themselves a willing sacrifice to him?
He slumps, finally, on a bench outside a building, hunching forward for a long minute to watch the rain splatter against the sidewalk. His boots are collateral damage, hit by the ricocheting water as he stared. And then he leans back again, lifting his face up to the rain and staring blindly at the sky for a moment before a backlit figure in a window catches his attention. He watches for a moment, slowly recognizing face and form, and then simply watching her as Karen stares down at him. The gown she has on is filmy. He can see her body's silhouette through it, and for a moment, the regret melts away, burned out by a desire to touch that silhouette.
"Karen," he breathes softly, lips curving in a cheerless smile. "Can't ask you."
Karen deserves better, after all.
Author: beloved_voices
Fandom: Threefold Element
Claim Focus: General Cast - Lucas, Karen
Theme: Rain
Disclaimer: Threefold Element is my own creation, and is copyright me.
Rating: PG
Warnings and Notes: hints of m/f relationships
The rain pelts down like cold arrows, piercing through his clothes to his skin in a bitter barrage. He can feel them together, has only to close his eyes to see Jacob wrapping around his new lover, their lips seeking each other's and their bodies fitting together as they gasp at how perfect it all seems. Lucas knows what they don't. He knows that it's perfect, that they were meant for each other, and that the bond that has already formed between them is unbreakable, irrevokable. He knew, back in the very beginning of it all, that Jacob wasn't for him, but still he let himself get attached, and now there is regret in the back of his soul, lurking there like a slow-moving poison. He's been tainted by it.
There are risks for his kind, dangers some would never expect, and regret is one of them. He's lived too long and seen too much. He knows how it can consume him, slowly eating away at his soul until all that's left is the corruption within him, and the perversion of his powers. There is a cure for it, but here and now, who will step forward to aid him? Who, of all the humans he's ever met, will make of themselves a willing sacrifice to him?
He slumps, finally, on a bench outside a building, hunching forward for a long minute to watch the rain splatter against the sidewalk. His boots are collateral damage, hit by the ricocheting water as he stared. And then he leans back again, lifting his face up to the rain and staring blindly at the sky for a moment before a backlit figure in a window catches his attention. He watches for a moment, slowly recognizing face and form, and then simply watching her as Karen stares down at him. The gown she has on is filmy. He can see her body's silhouette through it, and for a moment, the regret melts away, burned out by a desire to touch that silhouette.
"Karen," he breathes softly, lips curving in a cheerless smile. "Can't ask you."
Karen deserves better, after all.