31_days_exchnge; theme 3
Title: the heavy, heavy chains
Day/Theme: February 9; coulda, woulda, shoulda
Series: Original (Dusted Timestamps)
Character/Pairing: Hong; Hong/Ly
Word Count: 166
Rating: G
He dreams of her sometimes, flashes of his own shortcomings and failures in this mockery of a life.
Sometimes, they are children once again, and the days are spent running in fields of dandelions and fireflies, laughing and smiling and Let me catch you a raindrop, okay?
He likes to think of those, likes to pretend he’s still there and not who-knows-where-this-time-around.
Then there are the ones where his home is burning, burning red, where the sky is black and there’s an almost distant kind of feeling, the kind that sits in the back of his head, saying that he was never even here. He pushes that away and searches for her instead, lifting burning timber and inhaling smoke in an attempt to find that one single face.
And when he finds her, alone and quiet and smiling like this happened because of you, he wishes he never did.
He wishes for another chance.
(One more chance to break the chain that keeps you from breathing.)
Day/Theme: February 9; coulda, woulda, shoulda
Series: Original (Dusted Timestamps)
Character/Pairing: Hong; Hong/Ly
Word Count: 166
Rating: G
He dreams of her sometimes, flashes of his own shortcomings and failures in this mockery of a life.
Sometimes, they are children once again, and the days are spent running in fields of dandelions and fireflies, laughing and smiling and Let me catch you a raindrop, okay?
He likes to think of those, likes to pretend he’s still there and not who-knows-where-this-time-around.
Then there are the ones where his home is burning, burning red, where the sky is black and there’s an almost distant kind of feeling, the kind that sits in the back of his head, saying that he was never even here. He pushes that away and searches for her instead, lifting burning timber and inhaling smoke in an attempt to find that one single face.
And when he finds her, alone and quiet and smiling like this happened because of you, he wishes he never did.
He wishes for another chance.
(One more chance to break the chain that keeps you from breathing.)