[Table One] [Kyou Kara Maou][Conrad/Yuuri]
Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou
Pairing: Conrad/Yuuri
Table/Theme: Table one, themes 1, 24, 5, 2, 14
Rating: varies by ficlet; see below
Warnings:again, see below
Disclaimer: Series and characters don't belong to me
Title: Melts in the Mouth
Author: Crystaltear
Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou
Pairing: Conrad/Yuuri
Table/Theme: Table 1/#1
Word Count: 135
Rating: R to be Safe
Warnings: Perverted use of a snow cone?
Disclaimer: Kyou Kara Maou and its characters don’t belong to me.
The beach is crowded on that day and packed with eager ocean lovers, but they somehow manage to find a secluded spot where they can be shielded by a wall of rocks.
It is there that Conrad takes the innocence of a snow cone and reinvents its purpose in Yuuri's mind, where a mouthful of ice becomes an accomplice to the clever tongue it travels on. Starting from the curve of Yuuri's neck, the cool treat creates a winding path across his chest and down his stomach before the tiny slivers of cold dissolve within the warm mouth. Yuuri gasps, an aftershock of the receding chill and the searing need left in its wake.
The mischievous tongue continues its exploration alone, settling within the depression of navel before teasing the curve each its hipbone, and further still.
Title: Strength
Author: Crystaltear
Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou
Pairing: Conrad/Yuuri
Table/Theme: Table 1/#24 (Drop in the Ocean)
Word Count: 205
Rating: PG
Warnings:Spoilers for eps 25-32
Disclaimer: Kyou Kara Maou and its characters don’t belong to me.
He had thought that he was beginning to feel at home in this new world--everything that Shin Makoku presented to him as the Maou--but now that Conrad is gone he feels he has lost hold of the ground and is spinning endlessly without gravity. Gwendal and the others have left him by the warm fire while they go about their work, to give him time for digesting things, but also because they cannot be bothered; They do not indulge him like Conrad does--did--and rightly so with the work they must do.
Staring at the flames because that is all he seems to be able to do, Yuuri wonders not for the first time what makes a strong king besides the obvious ideals of desire for peace and love for all people. Yuuri once believed that dedication would be enough, but he now realizes that a king is just an ordinary person--just a drop in the ocean--without someone to hold him up. Yuuri has always been an awful king, but Conrad has been beside him to teach him, to hold his hand.
But now even that hand, the only part of Conrad that remains, has been taken away from him.
Title: Shadows and Sheets
Author: Crystaltear
Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou
Pairing: Conrad/Yuuri
Table/Theme: Table 1/#5 (Nothing is certain but) death and taxes
Word Count: 118
Rating: PG
Warnings:Nada
Disclaimer: Kyou Kara Maou and its characters don’t belong to me. The last line belongs to Adrianne Rich.
Notes: This is kind of a preview of a longer fic I’m working on of the same name. Of course, once I see the outline of the longer fic, it makes it really hard to write this very condensed preview. Also, yay for top!Yuuri; I always wanted to do him that.
Upon reflection, Yuuri sees that his relationship with Conrad is one of the most selfish he has come to have. Yuuri has always been the one to take, while Conrad willingly accepts the role of giver of his whole self, be it through protection or friendship or time hidden between shadows and sheets. Even now--as Yuuri’s mouth encircles the soldier’s Adam’s apple, capturing the vibrations of Conrad’s moan in his ear and tongue--Conrad is the one still giving.
But tonight Yuuri plans to give a little back, a calm certainty reflected in his eyes as he promises it will be the last time they are hidden by those shadows and sheets.
Whatever happens, this is.*
*This line is from Adrianne Rich’s “Floating Poem.” I take no credit for the beautiful line, I just felt it encompassed all that I was trying to say and made for a good closing.
Title: (Perfectly Normal) Transformation
Author: Crystaltear
Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou
Characters: Conrad, Yuuri
Table/Theme: Table 1/#2 Breaking Bread
Word Count: 153
Rating: K
Warnings:Nada
Disclaimer: Kyou Kara Maou and its characters don’t belong to me.
It was a perfectly average day, in a perfectly normal moment: They were all sitting around the breakfast table exchanging small talk and enjoying the peace before a long day of delegating or training the new soldiers. It wasn't even a significant word or gesture that caused Conrad to pay attention; Yuuri was eating as per the usual, doing a grand job of what looked like ignoring Gunter's ravings over the day's schedule.
"Gunter, I finished signing that treaty yesterday. Today's that whole issue with the shipment to Caloria," the Maou corrected easily without glancing up, and it was only then that Conrad realized Yuuri was reading something while he ate his breakfast. Conrad gaped for a moment, eyes finally opened as he noticed that no one else was reacting simply because this transformation was new to Conrad alone.
Somehow the time has passed, and he had missed this perfectly normal fact until now: Yuuri had become an adult.
Title: The Birth of a Promise
Author: Crystaltear
Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou
Characters: Conrad, Yuuri
Table/Theme: Table 1/#14 Stay with Me
Word Count: 116
Rating: K
Warnings:Nada
Disclaimer: Kyou Kara Maou and its characters don’t belong to me.
The moment that it really sunk in that this…world...he had been sucked into (literally!) was not an amusement park, Yuuri felt his insides begin to fill with panic. Suddenly, the weight of this silly title, the Maou, didn't feel so silly anymore; it felt damn heavy.
He must have clutched the man's uniform jacket unconsciously in his worry, because suddenly the soldier--Conrad, that was his name--was peering over his back looking at Yuuri rather than watching the castle grow larger in their vision.
"Don't worry, Heika, I'll stay with you the whole time," he promised easily.
Yuuri grasped onto that promise without pause, for some reason quickly relieved that the weight would be shared.
Pairing: Conrad/Yuuri
Table/Theme: Table one, themes 1, 24, 5, 2, 14
Rating: varies by ficlet; see below
Warnings:again, see below
Disclaimer: Series and characters don't belong to me
Title: Melts in the Mouth
Author: Crystaltear
Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou
Pairing: Conrad/Yuuri
Table/Theme: Table 1/#1
Word Count: 135
Rating: R to be Safe
Warnings: Perverted use of a snow cone?
Disclaimer: Kyou Kara Maou and its characters don’t belong to me.
The beach is crowded on that day and packed with eager ocean lovers, but they somehow manage to find a secluded spot where they can be shielded by a wall of rocks.
It is there that Conrad takes the innocence of a snow cone and reinvents its purpose in Yuuri's mind, where a mouthful of ice becomes an accomplice to the clever tongue it travels on. Starting from the curve of Yuuri's neck, the cool treat creates a winding path across his chest and down his stomach before the tiny slivers of cold dissolve within the warm mouth. Yuuri gasps, an aftershock of the receding chill and the searing need left in its wake.
The mischievous tongue continues its exploration alone, settling within the depression of navel before teasing the curve each its hipbone, and further still.
Title: Strength
Author: Crystaltear
Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou
Pairing: Conrad/Yuuri
Table/Theme: Table 1/#24 (Drop in the Ocean)
Word Count: 205
Rating: PG
Warnings:Spoilers for eps 25-32
Disclaimer: Kyou Kara Maou and its characters don’t belong to me.
He had thought that he was beginning to feel at home in this new world--everything that Shin Makoku presented to him as the Maou--but now that Conrad is gone he feels he has lost hold of the ground and is spinning endlessly without gravity. Gwendal and the others have left him by the warm fire while they go about their work, to give him time for digesting things, but also because they cannot be bothered; They do not indulge him like Conrad does--did--and rightly so with the work they must do.
Staring at the flames because that is all he seems to be able to do, Yuuri wonders not for the first time what makes a strong king besides the obvious ideals of desire for peace and love for all people. Yuuri once believed that dedication would be enough, but he now realizes that a king is just an ordinary person--just a drop in the ocean--without someone to hold him up. Yuuri has always been an awful king, but Conrad has been beside him to teach him, to hold his hand.
But now even that hand, the only part of Conrad that remains, has been taken away from him.
Title: Shadows and Sheets
Author: Crystaltear
Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou
Pairing: Conrad/Yuuri
Table/Theme: Table 1/#5 (Nothing is certain but) death and taxes
Word Count: 118
Rating: PG
Warnings:Nada
Disclaimer: Kyou Kara Maou and its characters don’t belong to me. The last line belongs to Adrianne Rich.
Notes: This is kind of a preview of a longer fic I’m working on of the same name. Of course, once I see the outline of the longer fic, it makes it really hard to write this very condensed preview. Also, yay for top!Yuuri; I always wanted to do him that.
Upon reflection, Yuuri sees that his relationship with Conrad is one of the most selfish he has come to have. Yuuri has always been the one to take, while Conrad willingly accepts the role of giver of his whole self, be it through protection or friendship or time hidden between shadows and sheets. Even now--as Yuuri’s mouth encircles the soldier’s Adam’s apple, capturing the vibrations of Conrad’s moan in his ear and tongue--Conrad is the one still giving.
But tonight Yuuri plans to give a little back, a calm certainty reflected in his eyes as he promises it will be the last time they are hidden by those shadows and sheets.
Whatever happens, this is.*
*This line is from Adrianne Rich’s “Floating Poem.” I take no credit for the beautiful line, I just felt it encompassed all that I was trying to say and made for a good closing.
Title: (Perfectly Normal) Transformation
Author: Crystaltear
Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou
Characters: Conrad, Yuuri
Table/Theme: Table 1/#2 Breaking Bread
Word Count: 153
Rating: K
Warnings:Nada
Disclaimer: Kyou Kara Maou and its characters don’t belong to me.
It was a perfectly average day, in a perfectly normal moment: They were all sitting around the breakfast table exchanging small talk and enjoying the peace before a long day of delegating or training the new soldiers. It wasn't even a significant word or gesture that caused Conrad to pay attention; Yuuri was eating as per the usual, doing a grand job of what looked like ignoring Gunter's ravings over the day's schedule.
"Gunter, I finished signing that treaty yesterday. Today's that whole issue with the shipment to Caloria," the Maou corrected easily without glancing up, and it was only then that Conrad realized Yuuri was reading something while he ate his breakfast. Conrad gaped for a moment, eyes finally opened as he noticed that no one else was reacting simply because this transformation was new to Conrad alone.
Somehow the time has passed, and he had missed this perfectly normal fact until now: Yuuri had become an adult.
Title: The Birth of a Promise
Author: Crystaltear
Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou
Characters: Conrad, Yuuri
Table/Theme: Table 1/#14 Stay with Me
Word Count: 116
Rating: K
Warnings:Nada
Disclaimer: Kyou Kara Maou and its characters don’t belong to me.
The moment that it really sunk in that this…world...he had been sucked into (literally!) was not an amusement park, Yuuri felt his insides begin to fill with panic. Suddenly, the weight of this silly title, the Maou, didn't feel so silly anymore; it felt damn heavy.
He must have clutched the man's uniform jacket unconsciously in his worry, because suddenly the soldier--Conrad, that was his name--was peering over his back looking at Yuuri rather than watching the castle grow larger in their vision.
"Don't worry, Heika, I'll stay with you the whole time," he promised easily.
Yuuri grasped onto that promise without pause, for some reason quickly relieved that the weight would be shared.