Drabbles-on-demand

[b_hallward]

Modified, from ranalore:

Despite my somewhat rocky history with these things, I'm taking drabble requests again.

First five people to comment with a prompt in these fandoms: YnM (main characters only, please) or S&H -- though you can try other fandoms, I guess, but they will probably yield no results.

This comes with my usual I'm a flake warning --

Comments

[ranalore]

Hisoka! And weapons, perhaps? Alternatively, if you wanted to try your hand at GetBackers, I'd never turn that down.

[b_hallward]

Hisoka and Tsubaki, King of Swords Arc, Weapons, 100 words

Bound by a Thread Even When the Fingers Are Gone

He'd felt Muraki in her at first: blind confused contact jumbled together with the faint mocking voice that made him feel hollow like his bones were whispering to him. A delicate pink camellia fluttered to the ground.

"I have a wish, Hisoka..."

There'd been a knife on the table -- easy to stretch out his hand, an ache somewhere like remembering the bright terrible slide of being split open -- knowing how pain would run, tracery-like, over his skin and flash white blankness across his eyes.

His hands aren't shaking yet when he clamps his eyes shut (coward) and pulls the trigger.

[p_zeitgeist]

That's stunning.

And you thought you'd escaped us. Hah. I no longer even feel mildly guilty about the hive-mind tentacles trying to wrap themselves around your ankles and pull you back under.

[b_hallward]

Thanks. I do feel a bit like I'm going under since as much as I'm hardly able to write S&H, YnM and I seem simply to suit (you know, horror, psychopaths, melodrama, teenage angst and gothic enough in atmosphere to support a certain amount of poetic description -- what's not to love?). Now that I see that maybe I can indeed still write Yami, it's awfully tempting to slip back. Maybe I'll even be able to dig up my version of Tsuzuki again...

[ranalore]

Oh, yes. That's just exactly what I wanted.