[ooc] drabble meme

[bitchcrafts]

Going with an oldie and a classic.

Give me a prompt and I'll write you a drabble.

The catch is--it has to be for one of my characters or my characters and yours or someone else's you ship them with, whatever. It can be ANYTHING, AU, TYL, first meetings, angst, nice things, etc, as long as it's related to island interactions somehow.

I play bitchcrafts, camefirst, myarmslipped,

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[17_going_on_8]

Yeah, you know I had to.

Beato and Shinichi/Conan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyJwjmw_jiY&feature=related And this is my prompt. Cause the openings and endings like making me think of these two.

mister & miss yesterday {1/8}

[bitchcrafts]

This started as a drabble and turned into a monster. I've just been nonstop typing what is wrong with me.

Also, that is a pretty awesome song and it fits them really well. I had a lot to work with! Things to note... This is quite a few years later, since the song mentions "To you who abandoned your dreams, "10 years later, are you the person who was once me, still smiling?"" That is what I ran with for inspiration! Also it takes place after an AU Bad End, say, if EP5 ended with Battler really dying. Brace for a ton of flashbacks.

I was also kind of inspired by this song along with yours! Sob.

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"You know, you can still learn something about the rules for the games you make up all by yourself."

"Oh?" He asks.

"Sometimes, you have to break them to win in the end."

-- ※ --By the time the two of them leave the island, it has already been uncountable years. Even if you have the dates, meticulously added up, right in front of you, it is hard to believe another kakera has sealed you away for so long. It has to end. It has to end

{2/8}

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Turning to face him, the witch says quickly, time growing short. "We will certainly not meet after this, but on the off chance that we do, it means things have likely gone very wrong. In the event that they do, and I explain why, I'm handing the divine right to break my riddle over to you if there comes a time when Battler can no longer fight because of reasons other than myself." Solemnly, she adds, "That way, you will be able to kill me."

"I'm never going to kill y--!!" Beatrice covers his mouth. The steel resolve in her words is the only reason she isn't breaking down, the only reason she's not mourning the loss of the only world that has granted her happiness in the past thousand years of her life.

"I, Beatrice, the Golden Witch, as current game master, authorize this, but only if the circumstances apply.Bringing her hand down from his mouth, he understands the severity of her words with the use of the gold text, something that only the game master can use, something that is only absolute truth, something she was definitely

{3/8}

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"Hey, Beatrice?" She's wearing her hair down today, so he's playing with a stray lock of it in boredom at the table within the gazebo. She wants to swat his hand, but she bites back the urge

{4/8}

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He doesn't treat what he watches next as a nightmare. He just stands, as an invisible observer, as Beatrice becomes punctured over and over again by those blue spikes, mercilessly, as mercilessly as she had treated Battler. Like a butterfly pinned to a cork board, and even as she cries that she's just getting started, that it's nothing, she stumbles and falls and anyone can tell that it was immensely painful, not only to experience, but to watch. Even so, he could understand Battler's fury. That didn't stop him from screaming out in a futile effort for him to stop.

She understands why she trusted Battler to kill her first and foremost. He's the one with the will to do it.

At the very end, Beatrice proposes her strangest riddle yet. Ending it with "Who am I?"

Conan understands why he couldn't solve her riddle before this moment.

And at that, he wakes up, and he doesn't dream of Rokkenjima anymore.

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'Broaden your gaze', she'd told him time and time again. Do not accept reality's boundaries merely where your world stops them

{5/8}

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He doesn't stay 'Chibi-Battler' for long, though. When Beatrice can get him away from the rest of his group, she wordlessly-- and without permission, changes his form back to his older self with her magic of Endless. Not simply seventeen, but the true age he'd racked up after his long stay on the island. It's painless, but it still shocks him and the only thing that's preventing him from screaming at her is drawing the attention of his friends. Predictably, Beatrice gave him a casual suit in addition-- one with a golden wing embroidered on the lapel.

"Are you insane?! -- Don't answer that, you always have been! What's the idea, dragging me somewhere, then-- then-- this?!" Shinichi's expression fades from shock and anger to fear, "What happened after that fight? How are you here?! How did

{6/8}

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Time flew, and soon, all the time Beato has left is all the time she'd been saving for explanations

{7/8}

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"When we met, I was still Beatrice, Witch of Endless. Endless cruelties, endless facades, the entirety of my purpose was to obscure my opponent's vision with lies and trickery, playing with emotions, and with people- it was my job. It was something I was good at, and I reveled in it. But then, we were given an odd kakera, you and I. We met in that place of miracles. And quickly, I made you my enemy. Most likely for fun at the time. I challenged you with the mystery of Rokkenjima, and nearly, very nearly, I came close to letting that intricate web of history and truth, twisted to form an obvious lie- I came close to handing it all over to you, to unravel it. You might have already solved every last bit, even. You might not be saying the rest of it in respect to me, or because you know truths can still coexist at this point in time

{8/8}

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"Ku... in a perfect world... I would be able to stay here... I could watch you unravel those famed mysteries everyone praised you for... I could tease you about how this was nothing compared to the circle of closed rooms, or the mystery of the locked chapel... we could've played games like that... eventually, I could have made you and I a game board all our own... and I would have given you the most splendid challenge you'd ever have to solve... and I would gladly sit on the other side of the chessboard, as your equally unyielding opponent.

... However, that one perfect kakera doesn't exist."

He starts to talk to stop her from going on, to say that it only wouldn't exist if Beato gave up, but she continues, even though tears are streaking down her face, even though she looks like she's bearing a lot more pain than she did when fighting Battler

Re: {8/8}

[17_going_on_8]

One! Listening to the Miku song while reading it will GUARANTEE CRYING! Tearing up is pretty much guaranteed anyway, but it flowed well with the music.

Second, rwjoirjwoijewqiojew you did write a lot and it's awesome and sad and they need hugs!

Three, http://17-going-on-8.livejournal.com/3903.html yes I had to write something with it.

[bitchcrafts]

First! Aaah S-SOB I had the Miku song and this on loop while writing it, which is probably why it turned out depressing. Then again, writing really sad things is my weakness. I am glad you like it, though!

Second! Admittedly I-I wrote an epilogue too, but I cut it in the end because I didn't feel like it fit in with the mood of the rest of the fic. It's here if you want to see it!

Third! /GOES TO READ

[17_going_on_8]

I can see sad with both those songs happening easy. T__T

*Goes to read.*