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[rideonmyharley]

The hotel had sent him back to Germany, and now the hotel had brought him back after seeing some pink roses had triggered his memories of this place. Until then, it had all seemed like a dream to him. Dreams didn't explain the marks he'd had on him when he woke up in his bed in Berlin. Dreams didn't explain the feeling that there was something he'd

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[rosered_knight]

Around two weeks

[rideonmyharley]

He'd given an ultimatum and vanished before Ran had the chance to find him and say whatever he'd figured out. If he'd figured it out. Kia still didn't know if anything he'd said or done had made a difference to that icy heart. For all he'd been told and all he'd seen from Ran, he didn't know if it mattered since he'd disappeared. It wouldn't surprise him if the return home had been taken as abandonment - one more cruelty Kia would have caused.

When the door opened, Kia looked up. Maybe it was someone looking for whoever'd stayed here in his absence. But it was Ran. He noticed the surprise and matched it with an amazed look of his own. Only his didn't waver or disappear. Kia wasn't ice.

"Ran." He couldn't think of anything else to say beyond the name that had pulled him back to this place.

[rosered_knight]

"Why are you back here?" Is that how this place worked? Was there always the possibility he'd be dragged back if he find a way out?

Ran was trying not to feel. Trying not to pay attention to the warring emotions that were churning inside of him. Half of him wanted to punch Kia, an outlet for the anger he felt because he told him he was afraid of something like this happening. Afraid of the loss. Kia had said it would fine. And then he'd promised to wait.

And then he hadn't been there.

The other half wanted to drag him close and crush their lips together. Two weeks ago he'd come to a decision.

Now he didn't know. Schuldig's voice still rolled in his head from when he'd run into the telepath. It fed those fears and he was disgusted at himself for allowing those cracks at all.

[rideonmyharley]

He couldn't answer that question without sounding amazingly corny. But he'd be truthful, even if it sounded like something from a bad romance movie. "I don't know. The entire time I was home, I kept feeling like I'd forgotten something important. Then someone sent Louise flowers, I helped Gallacher put the roses in a vase, and I remembered everything. Fell asleep and woke up here."

Thinking of Ran had brought him back. How silly, but true.

Kia was prepared for violence, since he'd left when he'd said he'd be around. waiting for the redhead to make up his mind. No matter how much he pushed his way into people's lives, in the end it was their choice whether or not to be with him. Emotions had to be admitted personally.

"When I went back, it was as if no time had passed in Berlin."