[August 29] [Bleach] A Long Last Act

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Title: A Long Last Act
Day/Theme: Aug 29 / Hatred is holy
Series: Bleach
Character/Pairing: Byakuya/Hisana
Rating: G



He paints the characters with painstaking precision, each stroke an exercise in control. One, two, three, lift, reset. The sun sets outside and he pauses to look up at the red stain on the paper walls, lips a thin line in the elegant (painful) shape of his face.

It has been five days, or perhaps ten, and he has sworn an oath. Daily he recites it and daily he breaks it, because there is too much hope in such a promise.

She rolls over next to him and puts one wasted hand around his wrist, and her bones feel as hollow as any birds. Byakuya lies still and lets her think him asleep, and each day he is more deadly than the day before.

When she dies, he makes his love a sword and revels in the bitterness of the blood (even Hollow blood, stained and dark and cold) she leaves on him.