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These are two of the drabbles done for mf_sanctuary's weekly contests:
Title: Coming Home
Week/Prompt: Week 1: Cold Comfort
Word Count: 250
Rating: PG
Summary: At the end of Sesshoumaru's wanderings, he returns to where his heart is.
Warnings/Author's Note: Character death
Coming Home
She sits in the cold alone, playing with the snow. Her little body shivers, her fingers are clumsy as she carefully packs and smoothes until a form takes shape under her industrial hands. Sweet and beguiling, perfect in its entirety, the snow puppy sits looking up at her with adoring eyes. She sings to it a wordless humming of a lullaby as she pats it delicately on the head.
For a long, long time, he watches her.
Her actions become more and more lethargic; her head droops as her hands turn blue and her misty breath comes slower and slower. Her head turns, and she looks at him for the first time.
“Sesshoumaru-sama,” her lips form the words and the wind sighs his name.
Matted snow falls from his shaggy coat as he squeezes between two pine trees to stand before a tiny, weathered grave marker. His frailty is such that he can easily fold the great length of his true form into the small clearing, his ragged tail tucked neatly over his nose as he lies down in a circle around her.
“Sesshoumaru-sama!” she says with more vigor, struggling to her feet as she runs over to bury her face in the bristly, steely grey of his fur.
His canine whuff is an affectionate, tired greeting as he patiently endures her clamoring until she is snugly tucked under his chin. The small, hard warmth of her body soothes him, and his last breath comes out as a contented sigh.
Title: His Foolishness
Week/Prompt: Week 2 - Forever
Word Count: 400
Rating: PG13 for a bad word
Summary: He's just a fool in love...
Warnings/Author’s Note:
To be human is to be foolish. To try to be human is only to succeed at being a fool.
…The words of his mother, her only admittance of ire against his father’s dalliances with a human whore.
Do not scoff at love my son. It has brought low colder hearts than yours. You know nothing, and so you despise me without understanding. Someday you will meet the one who makes you feel foolish, and then you will understand why I make no apology to you or your mother. Love is its own law. Remember that.
…The words of his father, the last ever spoken to his son.
Someday, after I die, will you remember me?
…The words of Rin, the little girl who would make of him a fool.
He knows he should use his claws to strike her dead. Yet he cannot, and each day she lives is another day he fails to put an end to his foolishness. Each day he protects her is another step towards his own destruction.
His mighty father died professing love for a human; he knows better than to expect that he will escape unscathed. If he were wise, he would throw her away and never look back. If he pursued his quest for power as adamantly as he protected her life, perhaps he would possess the strength to answer the question he sees in his mother’s eyes.
Have you become like your father?
He doesn’t know. He fears; and his fear almost drive him to do what needs done.
Almost.
And yet…
He does not give up his weakness, the taint of her humanity. He sees her smile, hears her laughter, touches her tears, and he seeks to understand. What she is and why she feels and who she might become.
Forever is the furthest thing from his mind as he watches her grow up under his very eyes. Forever holds no sway over his actions as he takes her for his own, regardless of the consequences. Forever is the curse on his lips as he regrets never having told her of his love.
The bitterness of understanding his father’s words, of knowing he has become the fool his mother spoke of, is a mere echo to the loss of his love.
Rin.
He will love her forever, and make no apology for his foolishness, because love is its own law.
His Foolishness won 1st place for week 2! Lovely, shiny banner:
I happily urge anyone with an itch to write Sess Rin, platonic or otherwise, to participate! It's fun and easy, just drabble away! I've already entered week 3 with Don't Touch, Rin
As a random side note, I am about 5 views away from the 500 kiriban for my DA page. If anyone is interested in catching it. ^^
Title: Coming Home
Week/Prompt: Week 1: Cold Comfort
Word Count: 250
Rating: PG
Summary: At the end of Sesshoumaru's wanderings, he returns to where his heart is.
Warnings/Author's Note: Character death
Coming Home
She sits in the cold alone, playing with the snow. Her little body shivers, her fingers are clumsy as she carefully packs and smoothes until a form takes shape under her industrial hands. Sweet and beguiling, perfect in its entirety, the snow puppy sits looking up at her with adoring eyes. She sings to it a wordless humming of a lullaby as she pats it delicately on the head.
For a long, long time, he watches her.
Her actions become more and more lethargic; her head droops as her hands turn blue and her misty breath comes slower and slower. Her head turns, and she looks at him for the first time.
“Sesshoumaru-sama,” her lips form the words and the wind sighs his name.
Matted snow falls from his shaggy coat as he squeezes between two pine trees to stand before a tiny, weathered grave marker. His frailty is such that he can easily fold the great length of his true form into the small clearing, his ragged tail tucked neatly over his nose as he lies down in a circle around her.
“Sesshoumaru-sama!” she says with more vigor, struggling to her feet as she runs over to bury her face in the bristly, steely grey of his fur.
His canine whuff is an affectionate, tired greeting as he patiently endures her clamoring until she is snugly tucked under his chin. The small, hard warmth of her body soothes him, and his last breath comes out as a contented sigh.
Title: His Foolishness
Week/Prompt: Week 2 - Forever
Word Count: 400
Rating: PG13 for a bad word
Summary: He's just a fool in love...
Warnings/Author’s Note:
To be human is to be foolish. To try to be human is only to succeed at being a fool.
…The words of his mother, her only admittance of ire against his father’s dalliances with a human whore.
Do not scoff at love my son. It has brought low colder hearts than yours. You know nothing, and so you despise me without understanding. Someday you will meet the one who makes you feel foolish, and then you will understand why I make no apology to you or your mother. Love is its own law. Remember that.
…The words of his father, the last ever spoken to his son.
Someday, after I die, will you remember me?
…The words of Rin, the little girl who would make of him a fool.
He knows he should use his claws to strike her dead. Yet he cannot, and each day she lives is another day he fails to put an end to his foolishness. Each day he protects her is another step towards his own destruction.
His mighty father died professing love for a human; he knows better than to expect that he will escape unscathed. If he were wise, he would throw her away and never look back. If he pursued his quest for power as adamantly as he protected her life, perhaps he would possess the strength to answer the question he sees in his mother’s eyes.
Have you become like your father?
He doesn’t know. He fears; and his fear almost drive him to do what needs done.
Almost.
And yet…
He does not give up his weakness, the taint of her humanity. He sees her smile, hears her laughter, touches her tears, and he seeks to understand. What she is and why she feels and who she might become.
Forever is the furthest thing from his mind as he watches her grow up under his very eyes. Forever holds no sway over his actions as he takes her for his own, regardless of the consequences. Forever is the curse on his lips as he regrets never having told her of his love.
The bitterness of understanding his father’s words, of knowing he has become the fool his mother spoke of, is a mere echo to the loss of his love.
Rin.
He will love her forever, and make no apology for his foolishness, because love is its own law.
His Foolishness won 1st place for week 2! Lovely, shiny banner:
I happily urge anyone with an itch to write Sess Rin, platonic or otherwise, to participate! It's fun and easy, just drabble away! I've already entered week 3 with Don't Touch, Rin
As a random side note, I am about 5 views away from the 500 kiriban for my DA page. If anyone is interested in catching it. ^^