[anOTP] You make me feel at home {For Genie}
What is it that makes him feel at home here in the Mansion...? Muraki asks himself. Building a lab in the basement? Finding kindred spirits in Melisande and Aramat? Discovering Tsuzuki, the prey to end all prey is here, waiting for him to pounce on and renew their game of cat and mouse? Passing on his wisdom to Steerpike (and making a donor of the young man, if he can't make a paramour of him)?
Yes... all of that, but there is something more. Someone who made him feel welcome that first day when he fell into this world, who warmed his frozen soul with her kindness, who reminded him of his first and his one true love, waiting for him in his own world...
Who's also just as out of his reach because she is with another.
He's sitting in the kitchen, drinking some iced green tea and brooding. He's accustomed to getting what he desires, to knocking over or digging around obstacles between him and what he wants. But does he desire Genie? He wishes there could be the kind of closeness between them as there is between him and his fiancee. But he knows she is not his to reach for. To touch her would be to contaminate her...
Yes... all of that, but there is something more. Someone who made him feel welcome that first day when he fell into this world, who warmed his frozen soul with her kindness, who reminded him of his first and his one true love, waiting for him in his own world...
Who's also just as out of his reach because she is with another.
He's sitting in the kitchen, drinking some iced green tea and brooding. He's accustomed to getting what he desires, to knocking over or digging around obstacles between him and what he wants. But does he desire Genie? He wishes there could be the kind of closeness between them as there is between him and his fiancee. But he knows she is not his to reach for. To touch her would be to contaminate her...