Kisuke jerks awake at the sound of footsteps, the breath catching in his throat and one hand reaching for his blade— “Woah, hey, just me,” a vaguely familiar voice announces even as the footsteps halt. “There’s no danger around.” Kisuke scrubs at his face, trying to shake the cobwebs from his mind, and then glances …
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It’s a week before he leaves the safety of the shoten, a week spent focusing on anything (everything) except Erich. The connection still remains between them, is still an unerring compass pointed in Erich’s direction, but unlike before, Erich doesn’t approach him. He can tell that Erich is still moving about — likely to different …
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Kisuke is more vigilant about remaining out of Erich’s sight from then on. He doesn’t want to risk the man’s fury, doesn’t want to have to see what Benihime has done— (Even if he should, at least to make sure she hasn’t done something terrible to Erich, no matter how much she insists otherwise.) (Still, …
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They meet again on the battlefield. Kisuke is late this time, having been caught up in clearing out a monster nest, and isn’t paying attention to his senses the way he should. He’s late, and the Invasion has already begun, and who knows how many people have already died because of his incompetence— He skids …
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23 and 33, erich/kisuke, “Adam and Evil”? 😀 ser (23: One night stand turns serious, 33: Balcony Wooing scene Erich/Kisuke) Kisuke eyes the slowly lightening sky, then glances over his shoulder at the bed where Erich is casually leaning back against the headboard, a book in one hand and a lit cigarette in the other. …
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“Shit,” Ichigo spat as he hastily lowered Rerugen’s body the rest of the way to the floor and straightened the man’s limbs out with Uryuu’s help. “Got any idea what the hell all that was about?” he absently asked as he unbuttoned Rerugen’s overshirt and carefully peeled it back to get a better look at …
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Link gave the dying embers of his fire one last poke, before sighing and kicking dirt over it, extinguishing its final dim glow and leaving the small cave lit only by the pale, rainbow-ripple of light coming off of the tele-pad and shimmering atop the little pools of water scattered around. The silence settled around …
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The trail through the forest is no less meandering than it had been inside the wards, wending between bits of cover along the ward-line for a short distance before turning and heading deeper into the forest. It’s a long, tense, silent trek through the night-dark woods, following a trail of blood back-back-back, through the darkest …
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Erich pauses at the base of the stairs leading up to the ruin and takes a deep breath, letting his bayonet fade away as he prepares to ascend; it’s only been a few days since he was last here, but even now he can tell that there still aren’t any Lost in the area. And …
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Briar keeps an eye on the white wolf as Ren leads them along the cliff, wary about being suddenly reverted into his canine form now that she’s back and watching him; two unexpected changes in such short order is more than enough for him. (He can already feel something odd in his soul, almost like …
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Louis has had a very bad day so far. He and Yakumo had managed to make their way relatively deep into this maze of caverns, and then Yakumo took a blow to the chest and fell from the path, and now there’s nothing to do except to wait and hope that Yakumo can get back …
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Oliver’s met a lot of revenants since he woke up to a destroyed world and never-ending hunger — mostly other young adults like him, frightened and cast adrift and struggling to survive — but this revenant, this Erich, is frankly terrifying. Not terrifying like the bastards who currently own them, a terror born of sharp …
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Erich settles carefully on the edge of the bed and begins unbuckling his boots, fingers absently moving through familiar motions as his mind turns his meeting with the unknown man over and over and over again, wondering if there’s something he could have done, or said, or not done that would have helped— But he …
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Erich’s not sure what draws him to the strange, out of the way ruin; from the outside, it doesn’t seem all that different from anywhere else in the ruined landscape, just one more toppled building amongst many, even if it is far from any other building or structure. There’s nothing that should make it stand …
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Erich jolts awake as a loud shout echoes through their little enclosed space, accompanied by the rhythmic clanking of a ladder dropping into place. “That’s our cue,” Io murmurs as she slowly straightens up, hands flexing and shoulders rolling as she tries to work the stiffness out of her body. Erich grunts in agreement and …
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