Meki/Yuku - Original fiction - #29 - See the world my way
Title: But Never Really Polished
Fandom: Original fiction.
Characters: Meki/Yuku
Theme: #29 - See the world my way
Rating: PG
Summary: You'll see me / The face that is used to telling lies. --Stars, 'Take Me to the Riot'
Disclaimer: Meki and Yuku are mine. It is advised they remain mine, because they're really just two sick bastards I can't imagine anyone else wanting.
Yuku is thirty-five years old and he still does not and cannot see the world in the same light Meki does.
The woman on the plane is thirty, maybe thirty-five, and she's tall and graceful and very thin. She is wearing a suit and her hair is pinned up neatly. Yuku is wearing leather and, wincing, sees her as someone his age who looks a thousand times more respectable than he does. He doesn't pay attention to the bones or the faint noise from the bathroom later.
Meki sees the way she eats and the way she disappears to retch.
On their way to the hotel, they pass a kid walking down the street. He can't be much older than Ray, but he could pass for a forty-year-old. Yuku momentarily wonders how much sleep he gets and why he's walking alone.
Meki's brief glance falls onto the yellow whites of the child's eyes and the scars.
The receptionist at the hotel is wearing too much make-up. Yuku tries not to stare and reminds himself that sometimes, American women have no fashion sense. (Neither do Japanese women, but at least, Yuku thinks, they don't make a supreme effort at looking like drag queens on crack.)
Meki raises his eyebrow a little at the bruises the thick make-up's not quite fully covering.
In the supermarket down the street, there's a thin man holding a baby and shoplifting. Yuku distastefully notes the shoplifting, Meki steps up to the nervous man and compliments him on his child. (The man smiles faintly and thanks him.)
When they return to Japan the next week, Liang is waiting in front of their house. There's no telling how long he's been out there. There's a large cut on his face. He says he needs help.
They stop and look at him, then at one another.
Yuku runs inside for antiseptic. Meki follows Ray to Liang's side and takes his hand without asking any questions.
Fandom: Original fiction.
Characters: Meki/Yuku
Theme: #29 - See the world my way
Rating: PG
Summary: You'll see me / The face that is used to telling lies. --Stars, 'Take Me to the Riot'
Disclaimer: Meki and Yuku are mine. It is advised they remain mine, because they're really just two sick bastards I can't imagine anyone else wanting.
Yuku is thirty-five years old and he still does not and cannot see the world in the same light Meki does.
The woman on the plane is thirty, maybe thirty-five, and she's tall and graceful and very thin. She is wearing a suit and her hair is pinned up neatly. Yuku is wearing leather and, wincing, sees her as someone his age who looks a thousand times more respectable than he does. He doesn't pay attention to the bones or the faint noise from the bathroom later.
Meki sees the way she eats and the way she disappears to retch.
On their way to the hotel, they pass a kid walking down the street. He can't be much older than Ray, but he could pass for a forty-year-old. Yuku momentarily wonders how much sleep he gets and why he's walking alone.
Meki's brief glance falls onto the yellow whites of the child's eyes and the scars.
The receptionist at the hotel is wearing too much make-up. Yuku tries not to stare and reminds himself that sometimes, American women have no fashion sense. (Neither do Japanese women, but at least, Yuku thinks, they don't make a supreme effort at looking like drag queens on crack.)
Meki raises his eyebrow a little at the bruises the thick make-up's not quite fully covering.
In the supermarket down the street, there's a thin man holding a baby and shoplifting. Yuku distastefully notes the shoplifting, Meki steps up to the nervous man and compliments him on his child. (The man smiles faintly and thanks him.)
When they return to Japan the next week, Liang is waiting in front of their house. There's no telling how long he's been out there. There's a large cut on his face. He says he needs help.
They stop and look at him, then at one another.
Yuku runs inside for antiseptic. Meki follows Ray to Liang's side and takes his hand without asking any questions.