He knew something was wrong with his first step into the kitchen. Sugar crunched under his feet, an eerie sound in the silence. Icing sugar and flour and cocoa were smeared across the smooth black of his counter, and the oven was hanging open. He felt a bundle of dread build in his gut. The Someone had at least washed up; a haphazard pile of ( Read more... )

Their eyes met and without saying anything, ignoring his aching ribs and aching everything and the fact that it probably wasn’t very healthy, he grabbed the back of Doumeki’s head and pulled him down to kiss him clumsily and briefly and hard. Then he collapsed back down and glared at his saviour and the boy he loved stupidly.

“Well?” he asked, ( Read more... )

title: drowning in a sea of white
author: chaotic_cupcake

fandom: xxxHolic (104)

length: 883 words

summary: Obliviousness. Angst. Death. Depression.

warnings: CHARACTER DEATH, DEPRESSING, and also kind of weird writing style, I apologise and blame sleep deprivation (although in retrospect I think it's quite out of character and disjointed... oh ( Read more... )