/insert fanfare here

[ineffabilities]

All right, as we all know, Christmas is approaching! And since I'm in a writing mood, why not try this?

the CHRISTMAS DRABBLE meme

The rules are simple:

1. Prompt me! As a note, I can write anything for any of the fandoms listed below, even crossovers. The only thing I won't write is smut, so, sorry for those who wanted some?
2. I write drabbles for you!
3. Everyone profits!

List of Fandoms
Tiger & Bunny
Disgaea
Mahou Sensei Negima!
Detective Conan/Case Closed
Vocaloid
Ouran High School Host Club
The Dresden Files
Pokemon
Super Smash Bros.
Heroes Of Olympus (and by extension its predecessor, Percy Jackson & The Olympians)
Zero No Tsukaima

Comments

[megyal]

Saw your post on the T&B LJ comm! For some reason, I have this song in my head:

Step by step
Heart to heart
Left, right, left
We all fall down
Like toy soldiers
-Toy Soldiers, Martika

we all fall down (kotetsu/barnaby)

[ineffabilities]

Oh dear sweet god, dark, dark, angsty AU.

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left
We all fall down, like toy soldiers

--

This isn't healthy, he knows.

They're both so different, these days. Kotetsu's power grows stronger every time he uses it, but with each time, he changes, just a little bit more. He grows angrier, more bitter, more aggressive, so different from the man he first met.

And it scares them both, to know that with each use of his Hundred Power, Kotetsu grows darker, more fearsome. Less like himself.

Barnaby moves in when he finds out about it, signing some kind of unspoken agreement when he steps into his partner's house. The first night he's there, he wakes up to the sounds of sobbing.

He rushes up the stairs, swearing at the crick in his neck (he should've taken something more comfortable than the couch) and opens the door to Kotetsu's bedroom to find the man curled up in a shivering ball, glowing orange in the middle of the wrecked remains of his bedroom.

"Oh, god, Bunny," he mutters into his shoulder when he holds him close, trying to summon up some laughter. "Sorry if I woke you up."

"How long has this been going on?" he asks.

"You remember when I went all 'whoosh' and 'bang' when we were chasing after the backstage thief?" Kotetsu answers, and Barnaby feels a weight settle in his gut as he calculates the amount of time--two months. "My power's been changing, Bunny. And...I think I'm changing with it."

The next day, he makes fried rice, calls Lloyds and tells him that they'll be taking a vacation for a while. He's not sure how long.

"I didn't know you cooked fried rice," Kotetsu remarks, smiling like last night didn't happen (and he hates that too-casual smile, wishes he'd tell him the truth for once).

"I taught myself to cook it," he replies.

They slip into playful banter, yet Barnaby senses that it feels off, somehow, and that it's only going to be the first thing to change.

He barely gets any sleep these days. He spends his nights making sure his partner is safe, that he doesn't scare the neighborhood cats or do worse when he's in one of those episodes. Sometimes he kisses him, just to calm him down.

Perhaps that's why he's starting to fall with Kotetsu, now.

This isn't healthy, he knows. He's losing sleep over it.

He decides, when Kotetsu kisses back, rough and long, that he doesn't care.

Re: we all fall down (kotetsu/barnaby)

[megyal]

Oh, this was so good.