Grazed Knees (Vampire Knight, Yuuki/Kaname, PG)
Title: Grazed Knees
Author: http://necklaceofrain.livejournal.com/
Rating: PG
Warnings: Aaaangst.
Prompt: Vampire Knight, Kaname/Yuuki: hurt/comfort - don't hold yourself like that / you'll hurt your knees
A/N: Sorry about the lateness, the fact that I failed on the comfort bit of the prompt and that I think repeating sentence beginnings is somehow an affective method in writing.
Grazed Knees
She is so very cruel, his beautiful Yuuki. The more tightly he grips her, the more she fights him, like a captured bird desperately thrashing its wings against the hands that hold it, until finally she no longer has the energy to fly and she crumples before him, head bowed towards the floor.
It cuts him to the core, that she cannot see what a priceless jewel she is, how brightly and purely she shines. That she is more than worthy to stand by his side as his equal, as his bride. That she has far more power over him than he has over her. That he is completely sincere when he tells her that his life is in her hands, to do with as she pleases.
Slowly, as not to startle her, he kneels in front of her, then places two fingers under her chin (so close, so close to that slim pale neck, the fluttering pulse) and tilts it up towards him. Gentle dark eyes gaze back into his own.
“I can’t see your beautiful face when you bow your head like that, Yuuki.”
Colour slowly suffuses across her face, her gorgeous blood burning just below the surface of her skin.
“Kaname-sama...” she murmurs.
He kisses her, knowing even as he does so that he is being more rough than usual, but after a moment she turns into him and her mouth opens eagerly under his own. Surely, she must feel his desperation through this, she must understand what it means.
But if his heartfelt words cannot reach her, what hope does he have that a simple kiss can make her understand?