jolt Gentlemen's Alliance, Maika/Itsuki, #3)
title: Ashes, Ashes
fandom: Gentlemen's Alliance [Shinshi Doumei Cross]
pairing: Kamiya Maika/Otomiya Itsuki
prompts: #3, ;jolt', and #2, 'news; letter'
disclaimer: The characters and storyline off of which this is based belong to the talented Arina Tanemura. Not me.
Rating: K+ (PG)
Can alternately be found here on fanfiction.net.
On an early spring day there is lightning, and he realizes with a jolt running through him that Maika is not in his arms.
It’s an ill omen, he feels, but he tries his best to shake it out of his head and forget it. The lightning crashes again, and the heavy spring rain continues to patter on his roof, while a slant of spring-gray light slips through his window.
(The next time he sees her, he kisses her, but it doesn’t feel like enough).
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It is a late summer day, in the sweltering, melting heat, that he finds out Kazuhito has betrayed him.