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lux_marikoStory: Consequences
Year: 2978
Word Count: 354
Rating: R
Characters: Lux, Mariko, Michaela
Warnings: Violence, well-intended intrusiveness.
Their relationship, for all that interspecies couples were rare and often side-eyed, had progressed normally enough, kissing to touching, stroking, and then Mariko unwound the ties at the neck of Lux's tunic and slowly pulled it down--and stopped.
The world smolders around them, and Lux is on her knees in the middle of it, beaten, ruined, bound and waiting for judgement.
"What--" Mariko breathed, and then, "Oh, my God, what happened?"
Michaela stands above her, burning sword heavy across a blinding breastplate, white and gold and hard and unforgiving.
"Please don't ask me," she replied, after a long moment, then caught Mariko's hand and kissed it, and murmured, "Come to the front instead."
Lux meets Michaela's eyes, hard darkness locked on hard light, and she laughs and laughs and laughs, until her sibling hefts the sword, resting it almost tenderly on her shoulder.
"No, Lux, someone hurt you," Mariko protested, all romantic or erotic notions gone, "those look recent, they're barely even--"
"You have transgressed," Michaela says, in that characteristic soft monotone, "you have transgressed and you must be punished."
"They're not," Lux said, sharper than she intended, then pulled her tunic back up.
Michaela's sword glides in six even, parallel arcs, scoring unimaginable pain across Lux's back.
Mariko flushed, and apologized, but she was still full of worry and grief, and Lux was once again amazed--and at the same time frustrated--by human empathy.
"You are unworthy," Michaela finishes, simply, turning on a heel and walking away.
"I shouldn't have snapped," Lux says, "but please do not ask about those--it is a time in my life I would choose to forget."
Blood and ashes swirl around her, and the fragments of her being, and what bound her to her siblings, as the ground, almost gently, caresses up her spine and swallows her whole.
Mariko leaned forward and kissed her softly, and said, "I won't, I promise--I love you."
In the blazing darkness, Lux waits, watching the universe die in pieces around her, with six eternal lines of fire running down her back.
Lux smiled, and returned the kiss--but left her clothing where it was.
Year: 2978
Word Count: 354
Rating: R
Characters: Lux, Mariko, Michaela
Warnings: Violence, well-intended intrusiveness.
Their relationship, for all that interspecies couples were rare and often side-eyed, had progressed normally enough, kissing to touching, stroking, and then Mariko unwound the ties at the neck of Lux's tunic and slowly pulled it down--and stopped.
The world smolders around them, and Lux is on her knees in the middle of it, beaten, ruined, bound and waiting for judgement.
"What--" Mariko breathed, and then, "Oh, my God, what happened?"
Michaela stands above her, burning sword heavy across a blinding breastplate, white and gold and hard and unforgiving.
"Please don't ask me," she replied, after a long moment, then caught Mariko's hand and kissed it, and murmured, "Come to the front instead."
Lux meets Michaela's eyes, hard darkness locked on hard light, and she laughs and laughs and laughs, until her sibling hefts the sword, resting it almost tenderly on her shoulder.
"No, Lux, someone hurt you," Mariko protested, all romantic or erotic notions gone, "those look recent, they're barely even--"
"You have transgressed," Michaela says, in that characteristic soft monotone, "you have transgressed and you must be punished."
"They're not," Lux said, sharper than she intended, then pulled her tunic back up.
Michaela's sword glides in six even, parallel arcs, scoring unimaginable pain across Lux's back.
Mariko flushed, and apologized, but she was still full of worry and grief, and Lux was once again amazed--and at the same time frustrated--by human empathy.
"You are unworthy," Michaela finishes, simply, turning on a heel and walking away.
"I shouldn't have snapped," Lux says, "but please do not ask about those--it is a time in my life I would choose to forget."
Blood and ashes swirl around her, and the fragments of her being, and what bound her to her siblings, as the ground, almost gently, caresses up her spine and swallows her whole.
Mariko leaned forward and kissed her softly, and said, "I won't, I promise--I love you."
In the blazing darkness, Lux waits, watching the universe die in pieces around her, with six eternal lines of fire running down her back.
Lux smiled, and returned the kiss--but left her clothing where it was.
