I want to be where soul meets body...
So it turns out that the
31_days icon batch IS coming. Here's the next five, anyway. Remember, there is a timeline for many of these. The ones that do not follow said timeline mention this fact in A/N.
Again, be prepared for intense amounts of second person POV. Also, they seem to get progressively shorter...
Title: Offbeats
Day/Theme: September 06: Used to your streets.
Series: xxxHOLiC (of course)
Character/Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki
Rating: G
You didn’t ever expect to be waiting here in the rain for this purpose. You’ve been on this street many times - too many times - and each time was for a slightly different reason, but this time doesn’t involve something that has to be done. You’ve never stood on his street and asked him to come somewhere with you simply because it’s something you want to do.
And he accepts the offer, probably because he isn’t used to it either and he’s a little bit lonely. Maybe more than a little bit. But he walks out into the rain in a coat but no umbrella, so you hold yours over the both of you with a near-invisible smile. It’s a start. It’s always a start.
Neither of you have an agenda, so the mutual choice is coffee. He drinks his dark and somehow you are not surprised. You sit together in relative silence and watch the rain fall outside the window, occasionally sipping. Sometimes you chance a look at him and he doesn’t see you, but he looks content and that’s all you really care about.
When the coffee is gone and paid for, he glances to the door and wonders aloud what time it is, and you are reminded that things like this don’t last forever. But they can happen again, so you shrug and say that if he wants to go, he can.
He levels a look at you and indulges in a small rant about how you can’t dictate whether he comes or goes, and doesn’t move. You smile again to yourself and when the barista passes again, order two more cups.
The rain on the street doesn’t let up, but you’re nothing if not used to it.
Title: Milestone
Day/Theme: September 07: You look a little bit older, a little bit colder.
Series: xxxHOLiC
Character/Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki
Rating: G (really, why do I bother?)
He’s shivering this morning, and so you unthinkingly offer him your scarf. It’s enough to make him stumble and sputter, and by the time he’s through you observe that he’s probably plenty warm with blushing. But he takes the scarf anyway, and you know you’ve won. Kunogi makes a gleeful comment about the state of your friendship, which does nothing for the redness of his face. But his protests are particularly ineffectual today, and you wonder if things are beginning to change after all.
It has, after all, been several years since you first started reaching beyond the state of mutual disregard and one-sided dislike, and it’s not too surprising that he’s grown up. Except that for him, it is, because he shows so few signs of learning to live with your presence that it’s surprising when he takes a large leap in said direction.
You tell him to keep the scarf as you head to class, and hope that maybe next time he won’t protest at all.
Title: Pigeonwings
Day/Theme: September 08: Dovetailed solution of your heart.
Series: xxxHOLiC
Character/Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki
Rating: G
A/N: This one takes place in light of recent chapters. Not spoilers as such, but it will make a great deal more sense if you're up-to-date. (therefore not in the post-fanon-rejection sequence I have going...)
The room is absolutely breathtaking in its normality, and you’re suddenly afraid, afraid that any second now you will wake up and find it’s all been a dream. Everything is a dream these days. You don’t know what’s real and what isn’t, but you desperately hope that this might be. Even his presence just makes it feel normal, and not uncomfortable at all. Once you would have been unnerved by this, but now you’re just relieved.
And you’re tempted, so tempted, to move inches and lean against his side and know he’s there, that this exists, that everything is real. But you’re afraid that even if you can touch this place, it will still fade away. And it is him, after all - of all people to reach out to, he is quite possibly…
Quite possibly the only one who could reach back.
You don’t like to think it, but this conclusion becomes more and more obvious the more you do. Because he’s the one who follows you tirelessly to save you over and over again. He’s the one who risks his life and limbs for little thanks if any. And no one else could say the same. And since he is there, and it is him, and you’re not at all sure you can deal with another not-awakening, you do move backwards until your back bumps his arm.
You can’t see his face, but you feel the expression that would be impossible to identify by sight. He moves his arm ever so slightly to better support your weight, and the moment does not fly away on pigeonwings but stays comfortingly in place as you fade into sleep.
Title: Priceless
Day/Theme: September 09: You're the model of a charmless man.
Series: xxxHOLiC
Character/Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki
Rating: G
It’s hard to imagine life without you. Impossible, really. Even when I didn’t know you, you dominated my existence. Every single thing I did somehow led me straight to you, if hitsuzen is the reality.
And you’re not exactly perfect in general terms. I don’t know how I would put up with the damage to my ears, the ingratitude, the constant rejection, except that I fell for you because of these things and not in spite of them. Maybe I harbour masochistic tendencies, but I think it’s more likely that you’re just worth it. You are worth it. You’re worth more than anything I could lose or pay or simply give you, and because of this I know I’ll never be able to exchange anything for you, even if I gave everything I possessed.
I can only earn you.
Title: In Your Eyes
Day/Theme: September 10: To me, my fair friend, you can never be old.
Series: xxxHOLiC
Character/Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki
Rating: G
You never seem to notice the changes in other people. You’ve heard others comment on how Watanuki’s changed; that he looks more mature, that he’s even more mellow now. But somehow he never changes in your eyes. He’s still as volatile, as loud, as passionate about everything he does as he’s ever been, in your eyes. Maybe the rest of the world doesn’t see it. Maybe it’s true that love is blind.
But you disagree. Love isn’t blind, although it does tend to ruin depth perception.
31_days icon batch IS coming. Here's the next five, anyway. Remember, there is a timeline for many of these. The ones that do not follow said timeline mention this fact in A/N.
Again, be prepared for intense amounts of second person POV. Also, they seem to get progressively shorter...
Title: Offbeats
Day/Theme: September 06: Used to your streets.
Series: xxxHOLiC (of course)
Character/Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki
Rating: G
You didn’t ever expect to be waiting here in the rain for this purpose. You’ve been on this street many times - too many times - and each time was for a slightly different reason, but this time doesn’t involve something that has to be done. You’ve never stood on his street and asked him to come somewhere with you simply because it’s something you want to do.
And he accepts the offer, probably because he isn’t used to it either and he’s a little bit lonely. Maybe more than a little bit. But he walks out into the rain in a coat but no umbrella, so you hold yours over the both of you with a near-invisible smile. It’s a start. It’s always a start.
Neither of you have an agenda, so the mutual choice is coffee. He drinks his dark and somehow you are not surprised. You sit together in relative silence and watch the rain fall outside the window, occasionally sipping. Sometimes you chance a look at him and he doesn’t see you, but he looks content and that’s all you really care about.
When the coffee is gone and paid for, he glances to the door and wonders aloud what time it is, and you are reminded that things like this don’t last forever. But they can happen again, so you shrug and say that if he wants to go, he can.
He levels a look at you and indulges in a small rant about how you can’t dictate whether he comes or goes, and doesn’t move. You smile again to yourself and when the barista passes again, order two more cups.
The rain on the street doesn’t let up, but you’re nothing if not used to it.
Title: Milestone
Day/Theme: September 07: You look a little bit older, a little bit colder.
Series: xxxHOLiC
Character/Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki
Rating: G (really, why do I bother?)
He’s shivering this morning, and so you unthinkingly offer him your scarf. It’s enough to make him stumble and sputter, and by the time he’s through you observe that he’s probably plenty warm with blushing. But he takes the scarf anyway, and you know you’ve won. Kunogi makes a gleeful comment about the state of your friendship, which does nothing for the redness of his face. But his protests are particularly ineffectual today, and you wonder if things are beginning to change after all.
It has, after all, been several years since you first started reaching beyond the state of mutual disregard and one-sided dislike, and it’s not too surprising that he’s grown up. Except that for him, it is, because he shows so few signs of learning to live with your presence that it’s surprising when he takes a large leap in said direction.
You tell him to keep the scarf as you head to class, and hope that maybe next time he won’t protest at all.
Title: Pigeonwings
Day/Theme: September 08: Dovetailed solution of your heart.
Series: xxxHOLiC
Character/Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki
Rating: G
A/N: This one takes place in light of recent chapters. Not spoilers as such, but it will make a great deal more sense if you're up-to-date. (therefore not in the post-fanon-rejection sequence I have going...)
The room is absolutely breathtaking in its normality, and you’re suddenly afraid, afraid that any second now you will wake up and find it’s all been a dream. Everything is a dream these days. You don’t know what’s real and what isn’t, but you desperately hope that this might be. Even his presence just makes it feel normal, and not uncomfortable at all. Once you would have been unnerved by this, but now you’re just relieved.
And you’re tempted, so tempted, to move inches and lean against his side and know he’s there, that this exists, that everything is real. But you’re afraid that even if you can touch this place, it will still fade away. And it is him, after all - of all people to reach out to, he is quite possibly…
Quite possibly the only one who could reach back.
You don’t like to think it, but this conclusion becomes more and more obvious the more you do. Because he’s the one who follows you tirelessly to save you over and over again. He’s the one who risks his life and limbs for little thanks if any. And no one else could say the same. And since he is there, and it is him, and you’re not at all sure you can deal with another not-awakening, you do move backwards until your back bumps his arm.
You can’t see his face, but you feel the expression that would be impossible to identify by sight. He moves his arm ever so slightly to better support your weight, and the moment does not fly away on pigeonwings but stays comfortingly in place as you fade into sleep.
Title: Priceless
Day/Theme: September 09: You're the model of a charmless man.
Series: xxxHOLiC
Character/Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki
Rating: G
It’s hard to imagine life without you. Impossible, really. Even when I didn’t know you, you dominated my existence. Every single thing I did somehow led me straight to you, if hitsuzen is the reality.
And you’re not exactly perfect in general terms. I don’t know how I would put up with the damage to my ears, the ingratitude, the constant rejection, except that I fell for you because of these things and not in spite of them. Maybe I harbour masochistic tendencies, but I think it’s more likely that you’re just worth it. You are worth it. You’re worth more than anything I could lose or pay or simply give you, and because of this I know I’ll never be able to exchange anything for you, even if I gave everything I possessed.
I can only earn you.
Title: In Your Eyes
Day/Theme: September 10: To me, my fair friend, you can never be old.
Series: xxxHOLiC
Character/Pairing: Doumeki/Watanuki
Rating: G
You never seem to notice the changes in other people. You’ve heard others comment on how Watanuki’s changed; that he looks more mature, that he’s even more mellow now. But somehow he never changes in your eyes. He’s still as volatile, as loud, as passionate about everything he does as he’s ever been, in your eyes. Maybe the rest of the world doesn’t see it. Maybe it’s true that love is blind.
But you disagree. Love isn’t blind, although it does tend to ruin depth perception.