kinkfest | Undone [Princess Tutu, Rue/Mytho, PG] (Reply)

Title - Undone
Author/Artist - timmesque
Rating - PG
Word Count - 216
Summary - Princess Tutu, Rue/Mytho: loss of control - "it's a brilliance meant to fade"

And they lived happily ever after.

And they lived happily ever--

-X-

He curls around her, a speck on the bed, his white feathery hair against her skin like a paintbrush. She dips her hands in poison and runs her fingers through his skin, marking trails of charcoal black on his skin like carnage. She paints on him, loving, soothing, a metaphor on white. He screams and cries, he laughs with those once-wicked red eyes. She could not see them now, but every once in a while, a flash of crimson would blot out his face. She would then gently cover his eyes and the moment would pass and he was her beloved prince again. It was those moments she treasured and loathed. They were so close to that invisible precipice that all it took was a word and they would shatter.

But she would kill him before that ever happened.

Sometimes, he would look at her with questioning eyes that asked her, "Why do you bring yourself more pain, Rue?"

She would always answer him when the light reached the tip of their window and she had him in her grasp, completely and utterly hers in the beginning of the day, and reply, "Because pain is all I know"