YGO:Fanfic Fragment - Ryou POV

[not_hathor]

Not sure where this is headed, but thought I'd share:



I smell blood.

Why am I not surprised? actually... I am, a bit. Really. It shouldn't make a difference in this mental conversation betwixt me and my 'guest', but I have to pause as the all-too familiar prickle and pressure of congested sinues abruptly passing the safety zone and exploding outwards through my nose with a messy spray of mucus. I absently wipe my jacket sleeve across the bottom half of my face. Considering this ruddy cold has turned me - and therefore you as well, Koe, into 'mouth-breathers', I'm shocked.

He ignores my sarcasm, as usual. I can almost see him out of the corner of my eye, like a distorted reflection of myself; his head tilted back with transparant, insubstantial nostrils flared against the snow-filled wind.

Blood...pain...despair...

And the chill that shivers down my spine has nothing to do with the weather....

Comments

[frenziedpanda7.livejournal.com]

Eeep! Don't leave us hanging!

I take it with the pain and despair in the mix, the thief is NOT smelling a barely cooked steak dinner...

[not-hathor.livejournal.com]

As I said, I'm not one hundred percent certain where this is going.... I DO know that Kaiba is going to be ticked off about it; he's learning the downside of a relationship with our Bakurae.... when one's not stealing, the other is bringing home strays.....

[dragondancer515.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh, got /my/ interest!

[not-hathor.livejournal.com]

I think Ryou is going to be bringing home a stray Abyssinian, and Seto is not going to be happy.....

[nenya85.livejournal.com]

Very nice! I really like the description of the Spirit of the Ring in the middle paragraph. I'm not surprised Ryou has the shivers.

[not-hathor.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[myaibou.livejournal.com]

Very nice vignette! Very visceral, and very Bakura.