Procrastination hits me again!

[fickle]

“The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.”

Pick a pairing. Write three drabbles for that pairing, each with a different take on it: love, hate and indifference. In that order, because that’s the order they appear in the quotation. Post them in your journal, and pass this on.

See that meme? I meant to do it for psychoshipping. I really did. Instead, I ended up writing my first ever Dangershipping story/ficlet. Not even a drabble. Two full pages on Microsoft Word. I have no clue how that happened, but I'm blaming it on nekocutecatchan (or in other words, sneakily dedicating it to her) and posting it here.

...I'll take the meme later.

The theme that I had been trying for was love btw, in case anyone is interested in how off-base I managed to get. All critiques will be gladly accepted.



Existence.

A giggle floated lazily into the office, followed moments later by a smirking Yami no Malik and a mocking call of, “Why Se-to, working again? What a shame. I’d almost think you didn’t miss me.” The dark spirit was the only one who drawled Seto’s name in that particular manner, elongating the syllables to make it sound like a snake’s hiss followed by an axe chop.

“You’re not real.” Seto informed Yami no Malik, without looking up from his laptop. A moment later, the screen was pressed down with a deceptive gentleness, the cinnamon-golden fingers of the other boy wrapping over Seto’s slender, paler hands. The same infuriatingly relaxed laughter sounded again as Yami no Malik started to thoughtlessly bend Seto’s fingers backwards, now seated on his lap. “Silly Se-to. That is what you always say.”

“It’s just as true as the first time that I said it.” Seto coldly replied, not wincing at the feeling of his fingers being pushed to the breaking point. He refused to look at the Egyptian, instead staring at the dark wooden door from which his tormentor had entered. For that, he heard a finger snap, the sharp crack sounding even over the other’s laughter. “But Se-to, if I don’t exist, then how did that finger break?”

Changing tactics as that question was unanswerable, Seto instead reasoned flatly, “You are nothing but a part of Malik Ishtar’s mind. You cannot have a body of your own separate from him meaning you cannot be here. Hence, you do not exist.” For an answer, he received a taunting giggle and dark indigo eyes peered up at him teasingly, half-hidden by lowered eyelids. Tanned fingers deftly undoing buttons, Yami no Malik asked casually, “Does that mean I’m not undressing you?”

A silence, and the sound of heavy cloth hitting the ground with a muffled thud, the metal jingle of belts clashing against each other following. Then a stubborn, single-word reply. “Yes.”

“And that you’re not scared?” Fingers ghosting over the expanse of skin revealed, pressing against the hollow of Seto’s throat and feeling his heartbeat quicken in a way that would never be shown in his words. A curt answer, anger barely-repressed, “I don’t fear what doesn’t exist.”

Laughter sounded yet again, the golden false god sliding off the other’s lap to kneel between his legs and smirk up at him. The words that dripped off his teeth were poison-sweet, the quick flash of teeth ghostly white, seeming to almost glisten under the bright light of the office. “If I don’t exist, then obviously you won’t feel it when I do this…” A hand settled on each thigh, the gold of the bracers cold against Seto’s skin, and the psychopath bent his head after flashing the taller boy another eerie smirk.

Once more, silence fell, cold blue eyes staring steadily at the wooden door, lips pressed together in a thin line to stop any sound escaping them. Any sound at all. This wasn’t happening. There was nothing for him to feel. There was no reason for to react, because there was nothing happening for him to react to.

…and the sudden, shocked gasp that left his lips was due to him seeing a scratch on the door. Nothing to do with a clever tongue curling itself in such a manner that it tangled Seto’s very thoughts.

Again, laughter rang through the room, contaminating the very air as Yami no Malik rose to his feet, now looming over the other boy as he licked his lips, pink tongue seeming to taste the air in a snake-like manner. Wild spikes of dark golden hair covered his eyes, only the perfect cruelty of his smile showing as he guided Seto from the chair to lie over the desk instead, brown head bent to stare at the carpet. Passive. Submissive. All those things that Seto wasn’t. Which made sense. This wasn't happening, so this wasn’t Seto. Or so he told himself, with every shudder that ran through his body.

This wasn’t happening, so this wasn’t him.

Afterwards, instead of laughing, Yami no Malik half-purred as he held the other boy close to him, cradling his pretty doll within gold-laden arms. Trailing his fingers languidly over the cooling skin, he licked at the shell of the other’s ear before he spoke, “Se-to, do you still maintain that I don’t exist?”

Voice empty of all emotion, Seto answered mechanically, “You do not exist. Magic does not exist. Fairy-tales do not come true.”

Laughter. Harsh and wild and free from all constraints of sanity. All traces of playfulness disappeared from Yami no Malik’s eyes, the purple of them starting to burn like the ashes of a phoenix pyre as he tightened his grip on Seto, and cooed as a reply, “Fairy-tales don’t come true. But nightmares do.”

A hard kiss pressed upon bruised skin, “Nightmares live.”

A broken finger twisted sadistically, “Nightmares kill.”

A sudden, harsh bite at a soft shoulder, “Nightmares hate.”

A shockingly-soft whisper, cruel in its deception, “Nightmares love.”

A final, low, victorious laugh.“Nightmares exist. And I am your nightmare.”

~Fin~

The theme that I had been trying for was love btw, in case anyone is interested in how off-base I managed to get, and I wrote it over the course of three hours or so, since I kept getting distracting which might account for the different styles used. All critiques will be gladly accepted.

Comments

[xinda.livejournal.com]

LoL!! But of all the things, Poking?? I suppose it's better than WHACKing...

LoL!! True, but they were still bickering. Well... Bakura could... tell... Um. Marik that it wouldn't be help, but just something or someone else to... get to ... I donno x.x

^^;; it's 'k.

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Well, I could WHACK you if that would help drag out your arrogance XD

LOL, yeah, Bakura wouldn't be able to make Marik accept the idea of having a child and having his partner be pregnant. Not to mention that Bakura would have to deal with Marik glaring at his stomach balefully all the time.

[xinda.livejournal.com]

Ah, but you might WHACK her back in, instead of bring her out *nods*

Yeah... >.> x.x LoL!! Well, Bakura wouldn't let his body stay out of shape *nods* he'd be working hard to get it back into shape - after he gave birth. And... I shouldn't even be thinking about it x.x

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Nah, she's arrogant, remember? She'd probably try to WHACK me back XD

...and who would take care of the baby while Bakura is trying to get back into shape? Certainly not Marik. Bakura would probably come home to find Marik feeding the baby arsenic-laced milk. ^_^

[xinda.livejournal.com]

LMFAO you're probably right xDD WHACK, SMACK or bite.

Um. Bakura would take the baby with him and... Make Marik promise not to have anything bad happen to the baby - including killing or trying tokill it, or hurting or trying to hurt it - through him or anyone >.>

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Another good reason to drag her out - don't you want to see me suffer a little?

XD, how the hell would Bakura get Marik to make a promise like that? Offering sex is not going to work after Marik's found out that Bakura can actually get pregnant, scary a thought as that is :P

[xinda.livejournal.com]

Naw. Not really ^^;; Other people, maybe... people that I don't like *shrugs* ::b/c I'm... odd like that?::

LMFAO NOT a clue... but he could try... Hmm... promise to somehow go figure out how to keep himself from getting pregnant at the hospital and then.... find ... um... give him sacrifices? I donno x.x

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Well, I still want you to be more arrogant. So, do it. XD

LOL! What type of sacrifices?! Marik is going to be more focused on that fact that he's actually capable of fathering babies in males and that Bakura isn't letting him just kill it.

Arrogance and Malepreg

[xinda.livejournal.com]

LoL oh, m'dear, you make it sound so easy ;P

Um. People that he can do whatever he wants -- see that's the problem with Marik *grumbles* He can do everything himself so B-- never mind >>. Anywho. Um. Yeah xDD Well c'mon, Bakura's freakin the one carrying it, I'm sure he'd be thinking about that - but also concentrating on keeping Marik from killing it ;P And then asking Marik why he wants to o.O And saying... um... would he wanna kill Malik (even if at one point that was a yes) b/c Malik's a part of Marik and now the baby is technically a part of Marik x.X *oi*

Re: Arrogance and Malepreg

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

That's because it is. Now come on. I demand arrogance!

Marik does too need Bakura. Who else could be his whore? And Marik would explain quite calmly that he does not want to be a father or to have a child of his running around alive, and that Marik can kill the baby without dying himself whereas killing Malik would kill him.

Re: Arrogance and Malepreg

[xinda.livejournal.com]

LoL!!! oh come off it :P It's not easy >.> Unless it's completely fake, backed up by whispers on it being lies...

>.>
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not a whore :P *poutsulks* Um. Then perhaps asking if killing Malik would not also kill Marik, would he then kill his other o.O *shrugs* either way, the situation would be screwed.

Re: Arrogance and Malepreg

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

...it is easy to be arrogant. Just keep telling yourself that you're the best and you'll soon find that you're arrogant.

XD. Marik's whore. And Marik would just glare at Bakura and tell him that Malik is not his child. Malik is not the result of meaningless sex and Malik is not his responsibility. Then he'd wait to see Bakura's reaction to it being called 'meaningless sex'.

Re: Arrogance and Malepreg

[xinda.livejournal.com]

I only wanna be arrogant when it's true-- self-confidence and self-esteem, like... *nodu* ._.

LoL meaningless sex... jeez. *nods* yeah... um. not sure o.O If he truly cared for Marik during something like this, probably go off - letting his temper show as he kinda has a habit of doing in the series - say something about it and then possibly just leave and not wait for a response that would possibly show him that he just said something that would be 'unlike-him' --- aka, if to him it wasn't 'meaningless sex'. *coughnotawhore* And... um... Still ask him that Marik had to answer the question even if Malik's not his child.

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[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

Well, you have plenty of reasons to be arrogant, so be it! XD

Well, if he's bearing Marik's child, one would hope that it's not meaningless sex. I mean, if it was, then why would Bakura have a problem getting rid of it? And yeah, if Bakura yelled at him about it, Marik would probably just be all 'O_O I think that pregnancy is making you hormonal' or something before smirking that at least he's not the one making a fool out of himself.

As for the question, Marik would say the question doesn't matter because the situation isn't the same.

Re: Arrogance and Malepreg

[xinda.livejournal.com]

LoL nuh-uh

*nods* Yeah xDD That's what I was thinking, that Bakura would be all hormonal -- and probably would blame being pregnant and possibly sulk about it o.O Maybe >.> Or go off on him not being that way. Possibly Bakura telling Marik that he isn't making a fool of himself... simply that he see's no reason why Marik would call it 'meaningless sex' and then why he would want to get rid of their child -- and possibly look like he wished he hadn't mentioned the sex part... x.X *shakes head*

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[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

You will be arrogant. One way or another.

XD, if Bakura sulks about being pregnant, Marik is just going to suggest getting rid of the child and solving two problems at once - the child existing at all, and Bakura being pregnant. As for the other part, mhm, I think that Marik would point out that he's calling it meaningless sex because it is only meaningless sex, and as far as he's concerned, that is not 'their' child because he doesn't want it, that it's Bakura's responsibility alone if it is actually born.

Re: Arrogance and Malepreg

[xinda.livejournal.com]

You will be arrogant. One way or another.

.... perhaps I should hide now >.>;

LoL! No, sulks about the hormonal part xDD And Bakura'll say that it will be born and that he will take care of it -- possibly mumbling that he'll find a way to make Marik regret saying that ...

Re: Arrogance and Malepreg

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

No, don't. Stay here for my dissection of you!

XD, if Bakura's sulking about the hormonal part, then Marik's going to point out that's a side effect of pregnancy and that they should just terminate the pregnancy now to get rid of that side-effect.

Hah. And Marik would arch an eyebrow and ask how does Bakura propose to do that, when Marik is going to be doing everything that he can to kill the baby without killing Bakura - and hoping that Bakura won't ask why he'd care if Bakura's killed or not if it's just 'meaningless sex'.

Re: Arrogance and Malepreg

[xinda.livejournal.com]

No, don't. Stay here for my dissection of you!

*blinks* Oh that's a great way to convince me to not hide ;P

LoL!! And Bakura would point out that most things have side effects and it's only termporary (I put tempernately... as if I was trying to combine permanetely and temporary togeter in a ... weird way x.x)

Bakura would tell Marik that he's the one carrying the baby and therefore he's keeping it and not going to allow Marik to kill it... x.X

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[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

XD, you love me really. You know you do. And you have every right to be arrogant.

Hm, yeah, well, Marik would point out that if it is his at all, he wants his share of it dead. DEAD! And he'd ask Bakura why does he want to keep it anyway.

Re: Arrogance and Malepreg

[xinda.livejournal.com]

LoL! As the truth comes out *dramatical pose* Yeah >.> I have... um. The only right to be arrogant is most of my icon making, not even all of them...

*blinks* And Bakura hmmm... would say that the child is NOT allowed to be killed b/c he is not going to kill something that is both of theirs (or allow it to be killed) and especially after being born b/c he is not to allow harm to a child while he's around... *nods* And then point out that he wants to keep it b/c ... he'll say he has his reasons and not say them.

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[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

XD, yeah, the truth is that not only do you love me, but that you have several reasons to be arrogant. Like your writing :P

*head tilt* And Marik would point out that there is no way in hell that he's going to wait for the child to grow up so that he can kill it then, and demand to know what are Bakura's reasons for wanting to keep the child.

Re: Arrogance and Malepreg

[xinda.livejournal.com]

LoL! Ah, but m'dear, that is only partially true! For I do not have several reasons to be arrogant... for if I did, then wouldn't I already be?

*taps chin* Um. Bakura would probably start off by demanding/stating that he won't let *their* child be killed at any age. And want to know why Marik wants to have it killed so badly.

Re: Arrogance and Malepreg

[fickle-goddess.livejournal.com]

No, because you're being too silly to take those reasons and run with them :P

HM. Marik would just roll his eyes at Bakura and ask how does Bakura plan on stopping that - and then give him a disbelieving look and saying that he hates the idea of something running around that he created. He is supposed to destroy, not create. Having a child would run against everything that he is.

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[xinda.livejournal.com]

hm. Me thinks that if I had those reasons, I would believe that I was deserving of such arrogance and thus would haveit ;P

o.O Hm. The first thing that comes to mind is "you can't always get what you want." And Bakura stating that if need be, he'll go somewhere to keep Marik from attempting to kill their child - be it born or not. LoL I keep thinking of other things, but those won't work b/c Marik is hate/jealousy/spite and everything else ^^;


quite depressing really