thuvia ptarth

I forgot to post this with the story: These two songs were my Tatsumi headspace soundtrack.

K's Choice, Weak (Skunk Anansie cover)
Tom McRae, Human Remains

Tatsumi's headspace is decorated with many creepy charming mementoes of time spent with Tsuzuki.

Title: The body's sinking bones
Author: Thuvia Ptarth
Fandom: Yami no Matsuei/X
Pairings: Hisoka/Tsuzuki (implied), Tatsumi/Tsuzuki (implied, past), Fuuma/Tatsumi (mild)
Rating: PG-13 (adult themes)
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Length: 3200 words
Beta: By edonohana, mistressrenet, and rushthatspeaks, so long ago they've probably forgotten it; but I haven't. Thanks!
Notes: (1) Sometime after Vividcon 2004, boniblithe said that what she really wanted for her birthday was Tatsumi/Fuuma. So here it is, three years late, depressing, and with no sex. Uh. Happy birthday? (2) I am not sure the X and Yami no Matsuei timelines are compatible, but for the purposes of this story, I'm assuming both Fuuma going dark in X and the Kyoto arc in Yami no Matsuei took place in fall or winter 1998. (3) eta: Tatsumi headspace soundtrack: K's Choice, Weak (Skunk Anansie cover); Tom McRae, Human Remains

Summary: The last thing Seiichiro Tatsumi wants is to be granted his heart's desire.

I want small obligations, something lighter
than love or the body's sinking bones.

--Tisha Turk, "Going Under"

( --falling through space or water, endlessly falling. )

Companion drabble for nestra's Flesh and Bone, post-"Devil's Trill":

( They belong to a crazy woman who cannot plot but who can draw way better than I can )

For boniblithe.

The warm-blooded do not understand the passions of snakes. You think passion is hot and affection is warm: like sun, you say, like light. And love -- you think love is gentle.

My love is not like that, Tsuzuki. My love is cold and fierce and dark, so much darker than any night you can see with eyes so accustomed to sunlight. You say that my color is black, but black is a shadow or a stone. When you call me, when you let me love you, when I've burned your eyes blind -- then you'll see what color my love is.

Cross-posted from fuda_100, however belatedly; although the first two may have ended up condensed too far for sense.

( An Unusual Assignment (AU) )

( Ringtones (music) )

( The Dark Is Light Enough (darkness; Gensoukai spoilers) )

Note: This is, as usual, boniblithe's fault. She's the one who wanted space odysseys or spaghetti Westerns. Cross-posted from fuda_100 for the AU challenge. 100 words each.

( The Maltese Falcon )

( The Quick and the Dead )

( Strangers on a Train )

( Alien: Resurrection )

( Bringing Up Baby )

For various ghost/Halloween challenges, cross-posted from 100_roadtrips, fuda_100, and x_100 respectively. 100 words each.

( Unhaunted (Saiyuki) )

( Memorial Service, 1997 (Yami no Matsuei, GenSouKai spoilers) )

( August 6, 1945 (X) )

Title: Leave a kiss but in the cup
Fandom: Yami no Matsuei
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Neither the control freak nor the walking catastrophe is mine. Pity.
Summary: ... And I'll not ask for wine. (fuda_100 challenge: Intoxication.)

( Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine )