Original Fic:
The Way We Weren't, by
p_zeitgeistRemix: And the Way We Are (Gilded Cage Sampling) [Muraki/Ukyou/Oriya, 100 Words, Rated PG] by
veleda_k If he tries, Oryia can still remember that day, racing through New York on the subway. Ukyou with her bright fire and Kazutaka with his easy mirth.
None of them have returned to New York. Ukyou and Oriya will never leave their beautiful prisons and Muraki...
Muraki could go; he's had opportunities. But Oriya knows that Muraki would see that as betrayal.
Oriya and Ukyou are birds in gilded cages, and Muraki has locked himself in with them.
We’ll all love each other forever, Ukyou had said.
At the time, surely she hadn't meant it to be a curse.