Drabbles (Music Meme)
title: [various]
rating: K+/T
warnings: some minor violence, and language
parings/characters: Ichigo, a l'il IchiRuki, GinRan, UlquiHime, Kenpachi + Yachiru
a/n: I took this meme from someone way back in... January, I think. And, of course, I cheated. There are only seven songs/drabbles instead of ten, and I couldn't fight the itch to edit a bit (though I did try to stay within the time constraints).
1. The IV (Breaking)
Camisado - Panic!(?) at the Disco
(He threatens, again, to tie an IV to her arm.)
When she came back from her little adventure, when she was tied up and drugged and sluggish, quiet, slumped against the wall, she muttered his name:
“Ulquiorra… san.”
He goes over, apathetically watches as her eyelids flutter shut and she clings to the wall like it’s her consciousness.
“You’re a shame, you know that?” he whispers coldly.
She smiles, a drugged, sleepy smile.
He will break her, he swears.
If he can’t take the girl out of her fighting ways, he will try and break her will, even if it breaks his heart.
2. Hate You
Daddy - Jewel
“I get so tired, sometimes.”
She’s talking to a blank wall and a dead person, for all he could care.
“My bones. Every part of me. There’s -“ here, her lip quivers - “There’s something wrong with me. I swear it.”
“You need to eat more.”
She looks him in the eye. “It’s not that simple.”
He doesn’t reply.
There is a tiny part of him that does not want to rationally reply. That does not want to tell her that she will turn into dust if she doesn’t eat, soon.
“Eat.”
For the first time, she looks… cross.
“You get me frustrated sometimes, Ulquiorra-san.”
“That’s foolish. Eat.”
He thinks she’s going to hurt him again.
“I hate you. Almost. Not really. But I really do. I think you’re a… somewhat hateful person.”
She’s forcing back tears.
“You hate your situation. Do not transfer the blame to me.”
He doesn’t really want to be hated.
3. Midnight Wreck
The Day You Went Away - M2M
“I dreamt of you last night,” she whispers to the darkness, but, no, darkness doesn’t answer.
It used to.
It used to reach out and snake its long, thin hands through hers, and it was only in the morning that she would see his face - not clearly, never clearly - framed by the light of the door and she would smile in thanks for his presence.
It was always your back I saw, she whispers even more softly, hoarsely, she thinks, but realizes that it never passes her lips at all.
She remembers the date, the time, the place, the bump bump bump of her heart and the lack of quiver in her grip, even though her heart was beating so damn hard it should have made her whole body shake.
“You knew I’d be a wreck like this. You knew… it’d be tough. The nights.”
This time, the whisper comes out and it’s a little surer.
She goes to get a bottle of wine.
It’s midnight.
4. Sugarblood
Breaking the Habit - Linkin Park
It is only when he sees her sweet blood (surely, it must taste like cotton candy or sugar or gumdrops), bleeding out of a gash in her head, that he realizes there is a problem with him.
There’s no child-smile on her lips, and her pink hair is turning red and sticky and disgusting.
For once, there’s a reason he cuts hard and deep and violent.
Yachiru, bad as she may be with directions, is his only compass.
5. Vow to Protect
Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
Ichigo never realized he had any legacy to live for.
The savior of the broken, the beaten, the damned.
But there was a legacy, and he had to be a hero, and all those times his father suspiciously assaulted him were really leading up to this day.
(And that charm, the one from his mother - maybe, sometimes, he wonders if she’s watching over him.)
(He wonders if he’ll meet her when he goes up there, but it is a wistful thought that he brushes off quickly. There is little chance. And, anyway, he doesn’t particularly want to. It would be almost worse to see her again, to know that she was something he was not and that, well, he could touch her but they were still so separated.)
Rukia left him in the rain. For his life. A dream, taken down in the shot of her orders. Commands, barked ,as usual, a voice too big for her tiny frame.
“Stay.”
She had been crying.
No matter what kept him here, he was going to save her.
He will.
6. Misery
Addicted - Kelly Clarkson
Misery makes the worst company.
That is what Rangiku thought when she woke up the morning after, in that one blissful, ignorant moment of waking where one forgets the events of the previous day - which in this case would be The Day He Left For Good.
And then she remembers.
And she realizes that at least misery was company, and feels like crying all over again.
7. Flashback (that time you almost died)
Prelude 12/21 -
“When I’m dead…”
“Don’t say that,” she growls, and her hands are all over the place - checking for blood, balming his wounds, bringing bandages to her mouth where she rips them with her sharp teeth - everywhere. “You’re not dying, you melodramatic dog.” She says it a little roughly.
He smiles, like he’s not on his deathbed and the joke’s on her.
“But if I do, Yoruichi, will you kiss me?”
She kisses him - hard - but only to keep him alive.
[Music Meme:
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards!
4. Do ten of these, then post them]