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lunalovegoddess tonight, but I didn't, because my car is a BASTARD. As if there was anyone on the planet who didn't know. *glares at Chryslerbishi*
You know, the internet is a wonderful thing. There was a line where I mentioned a zipper, andmarilla82 kindly reminded me that there weren't zippers back then. (Which is why she's my editor, and most of the time, my conscience. Heh.) And then it took me FOREVER to think of something else that would intimate them. It's still iffy, but you should have seen some of the other options. *sigh* The point being, I have Victorian men's accessories and Victorian door hardware at my fingertips. FTW!
Fandom: Count Cain
Title: Nightmares 1 - Riff
Pairing/Characters: Cain/Riff, Jizabel
Rating: R for violence
Summary: When Riff dreams there is darkness and the rending of wings.
A/N: I just finished Godchild 4 and...woah. I'm intrigued by Jizabel now and his past. You know, because I'm a WHORE for backstory. But what is with that preview page for 5!? "When I hear the music I will kill Riff!" WHAT!?! I need scans. I need translated scans and I need them NOW!! Anyway, two more parts to come. One for Cain, and one for Jizabel.
It’s impenetrably dark, and his rib cage digs into the stone floor beneath him. He can’t see, but he can hear screaming. The voice is familiar, the voice of someone he has to save. He reaches out a hand and grasps at the rough floor in front of him. Another scream rips through the darkness and he can feel every cell in his body vibrate with the sound. The ground begins to shake.
A hot breath blows across his cheek as someone leans over him. “Open your eyes Riff, are you afraid yet? Do you suffer?” This voice is less familiar, but it carries the same loneliness as the screams. He can feel the person’s presence occupying a red hot space in the cold darkness.
He opens his eyes and still sees nothing. He blinks, trying to wet them, hoping that tears will wash away whatever darkness has trapped him within himself. Nothing changes; the world is black and flat like the back of his eyelids.
The screaming stops, someone lets out a moan.
“No,” he calls out in reply to it. Don’t give up hope, he wants to scream. Don’t stop screaming. As long as you’re screaming there’s a chance someone may hear. But all that comes out is a growl from low in the back of his throat. A tendril of hair brushes his face.
“Yes,” the voice says. “I warned you. I told you there would be pain.”
“No,” he croaks weakly, his lungs struggling to work, the darkness weighing on them heavily. Another tendril of hair slides across his cheek and is followed by another and another and another. He can feel them then, countless hairs; draping, gliding, wrapping. They loop around his neck and try to push their way into his mouth.
“Stop! My lord!” he gasps. He kicks and claws at the air above him. He can’t pull the hair away and he can’t find its source. The screaming starts again and suddenly his lungs are clear. He matches the sound, fingernails digging at his skin as he rips the hair away. He opens his eyes again and this time the blackness has dimension. It goes on for eternity and he knows he is alone with the tormented one. Riff knows he has to find the owner of the voice, before it gives up entirely. Pain startles him to the realization that he is clawing the skin from his own neck and when he pulls his hands away he can see bits of it in his red stained fingernails. He…can see.
The screaming comes quicker now, a staccato of gasping and pain. Riff rolls to his feet and pushes against the weight of the darkness until he is standing. He runs. Soon, between the clips of his steps he can hear the slick, slick, slick of metal on metal. Like knives and forks in the kitchen at the manor, like a deadbolt thrown on the bedroom door, like garden shears.
He stumbles and then there is light. Torches and candelabras, and lamps create an ocean or fire that surrounds him. He feels like it will consume him, wash him away with heat. He welcomes the idea. Slick.
A hair brushes his cheek and he turns around. The doctor is there, his long, light hair tinged red at the tips to match Riff’s fingernails. He is standing over a stone tablet and holding a large pair of surgical clamps. Cain splayed across the altar. He’s silent until Jizabel reaches out one of those long, delicate fingers to stroke at the broken bones and ripped feathers of Cain’s wings, Cain shudders and emits a pitiful noise. His wings are ruined.
His wings?
Riff remembers his beautiful wings. The wings he cared for. He had brushed them and washed them, stroked them with his fingers and his tongue. Jizabel had said he would remove Cain’s wings. Riff wonders why he hadn’t believed him, why he had dared to think he could protect Cain. The doctor stands opposite him, watching him. His fingers lightly tremble with his hatred as they ghost over the red tinged tips of white that reflect the light of the fire and shine in the darkness.
Cain opens his eyes.
“Riff,” he says, and reaches out a hand. Pale fingers swim through the dark and emit the glow being absorbed by the feathers.
“Your light, sir,” Riff whispers. “It’ll leak out all over. You’ll lose it.”
“Are you suffering yet?” Jizabel asks. He slowly brings a wet finger to his tongue and tastes the blood. “Are you in pain?”
“You’ve always been by my side,” Cain whispers. Riff can hear the words echo from inside himself and emerge to clash with Cain’s. “You think you can just leave me?”
“No matter how much heaven wants you for itself,” Riff says. He reaches out his fingers to meet Cain’s. Cain sighs and closes his eyes. Jizabel laughs and slicks the shears again; the sound of hollow bone crumbling shakes Riff’s soul. Another piece of wing falls off and lands in Riff’s hand. He looks at it, trying to discern where the red ends and the white begins. When he looks up again he is alone in the sea of white. The stones at his feet shine black and wet.
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Riff gasped into the darkness and squeezed his arms tightly about himself. The panic carried over from the dream caused him to shiver in spite of being drenched in sweat. He was alone. He was alone, and he’d always be that way. Then there was a small sigh in the darkness and he slowly unfolded himself. He reached across the bed and his fingers lightly traced their way from the nape of Cain’s neck to the small of his back. White, marred skin, lines for his fingers to trace. Each scar a memory of pain, but each scar was real, solid, proof that Riff was not alone. A sob wracked his body and he let it escape. It slowly rose and joined the sigh in the canopy above them to wait for a time when it would be needed again.
lunalovegoddess tonight, but I didn't, because my car is a BASTARD. As if there was anyone on the planet who didn't know. *glares at Chryslerbishi* You know, the internet is a wonderful thing. There was a line where I mentioned a zipper, and
marilla82 kindly reminded me that there weren't zippers back then. (Which is why she's my editor, and most of the time, my conscience. Heh.) And then it took me FOREVER to think of something else that would intimate them. It's still iffy, but you should have seen some of the other options. *sigh* The point being, I have Victorian men's accessories and Victorian door hardware at my fingertips. FTW! Fandom: Count Cain
Title: Nightmares 1 - Riff
Pairing/Characters: Cain/Riff, Jizabel
Rating: R for violence
Summary: When Riff dreams there is darkness and the rending of wings.
A/N: I just finished Godchild 4 and...woah. I'm intrigued by Jizabel now and his past. You know, because I'm a WHORE for backstory. But what is with that preview page for 5!? "When I hear the music I will kill Riff!" WHAT!?! I need scans. I need translated scans and I need them NOW!! Anyway, two more parts to come. One for Cain, and one for Jizabel.
It’s impenetrably dark, and his rib cage digs into the stone floor beneath him. He can’t see, but he can hear screaming. The voice is familiar, the voice of someone he has to save. He reaches out a hand and grasps at the rough floor in front of him. Another scream rips through the darkness and he can feel every cell in his body vibrate with the sound. The ground begins to shake.
A hot breath blows across his cheek as someone leans over him. “Open your eyes Riff, are you afraid yet? Do you suffer?” This voice is less familiar, but it carries the same loneliness as the screams. He can feel the person’s presence occupying a red hot space in the cold darkness.
He opens his eyes and still sees nothing. He blinks, trying to wet them, hoping that tears will wash away whatever darkness has trapped him within himself. Nothing changes; the world is black and flat like the back of his eyelids.
The screaming stops, someone lets out a moan.
“No,” he calls out in reply to it. Don’t give up hope, he wants to scream. Don’t stop screaming. As long as you’re screaming there’s a chance someone may hear. But all that comes out is a growl from low in the back of his throat. A tendril of hair brushes his face.
“Yes,” the voice says. “I warned you. I told you there would be pain.”
“No,” he croaks weakly, his lungs struggling to work, the darkness weighing on them heavily. Another tendril of hair slides across his cheek and is followed by another and another and another. He can feel them then, countless hairs; draping, gliding, wrapping. They loop around his neck and try to push their way into his mouth.
“Stop! My lord!” he gasps. He kicks and claws at the air above him. He can’t pull the hair away and he can’t find its source. The screaming starts again and suddenly his lungs are clear. He matches the sound, fingernails digging at his skin as he rips the hair away. He opens his eyes again and this time the blackness has dimension. It goes on for eternity and he knows he is alone with the tormented one. Riff knows he has to find the owner of the voice, before it gives up entirely. Pain startles him to the realization that he is clawing the skin from his own neck and when he pulls his hands away he can see bits of it in his red stained fingernails. He…can see.
The screaming comes quicker now, a staccato of gasping and pain. Riff rolls to his feet and pushes against the weight of the darkness until he is standing. He runs. Soon, between the clips of his steps he can hear the slick, slick, slick of metal on metal. Like knives and forks in the kitchen at the manor, like a deadbolt thrown on the bedroom door, like garden shears.
He stumbles and then there is light. Torches and candelabras, and lamps create an ocean or fire that surrounds him. He feels like it will consume him, wash him away with heat. He welcomes the idea. Slick.
A hair brushes his cheek and he turns around. The doctor is there, his long, light hair tinged red at the tips to match Riff’s fingernails. He is standing over a stone tablet and holding a large pair of surgical clamps. Cain splayed across the altar. He’s silent until Jizabel reaches out one of those long, delicate fingers to stroke at the broken bones and ripped feathers of Cain’s wings, Cain shudders and emits a pitiful noise. His wings are ruined.
His wings?
Riff remembers his beautiful wings. The wings he cared for. He had brushed them and washed them, stroked them with his fingers and his tongue. Jizabel had said he would remove Cain’s wings. Riff wonders why he hadn’t believed him, why he had dared to think he could protect Cain. The doctor stands opposite him, watching him. His fingers lightly tremble with his hatred as they ghost over the red tinged tips of white that reflect the light of the fire and shine in the darkness.
Cain opens his eyes.
“Riff,” he says, and reaches out a hand. Pale fingers swim through the dark and emit the glow being absorbed by the feathers.
“Your light, sir,” Riff whispers. “It’ll leak out all over. You’ll lose it.”
“Are you suffering yet?” Jizabel asks. He slowly brings a wet finger to his tongue and tastes the blood. “Are you in pain?”
“You’ve always been by my side,” Cain whispers. Riff can hear the words echo from inside himself and emerge to clash with Cain’s. “You think you can just leave me?”
“No matter how much heaven wants you for itself,” Riff says. He reaches out his fingers to meet Cain’s. Cain sighs and closes his eyes. Jizabel laughs and slicks the shears again; the sound of hollow bone crumbling shakes Riff’s soul. Another piece of wing falls off and lands in Riff’s hand. He looks at it, trying to discern where the red ends and the white begins. When he looks up again he is alone in the sea of white. The stones at his feet shine black and wet.
Riff gasped into the darkness and squeezed his arms tightly about himself. The panic carried over from the dream caused him to shiver in spite of being drenched in sweat. He was alone. He was alone, and he’d always be that way. Then there was a small sigh in the darkness and he slowly unfolded himself. He reached across the bed and his fingers lightly traced their way from the nape of Cain’s neck to the small of his back. White, marred skin, lines for his fingers to trace. Each scar a memory of pain, but each scar was real, solid, proof that Riff was not alone. A sob wracked his body and he let it escape. It slowly rose and joined the sigh in the canopy above them to wait for a time when it would be needed again.
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... or maybe someone who knows the whole story and who's ready to tell you spoliers. *ggg*
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I'll give you teh summary once my brother sets the computer free, promise. :)
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And when reading it, I realized I understood things here and there but I'm unable to tell you the plot all in all.... I'm sorry. :(((
But what I can tell you is... the first sequence, Castrato, is about the Count Grandstone (spelling?), and you imediately notice it's the bad guy of the story. He of course wants to have everyone udner his control, and Dr. Jezabel will be his favourite "meal", if you see what I mean. *g*
There's always a beautiful lady with this Count. Look carefully at her, you'll see there's something interesting...
And he despises a lot Riff, it seems. He tries once to hypnotize Cain, but fails. This doens't prevent him from trying a second time and this time he did manage to do it! and he orders Cain to kill Riff! OMG!
Thanks to a very curious strategy, Riff is not killed by Cain, but it was close enough. You'll learn then the true identity of the beautiful lady (this quite surprised me when I read it!:)
I won't tell you the end, but Dr. Jezabel would quite suffer (not physically!)... If I translate correclty, of course.
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And hypnosis! That totally explains the preview page, and makes me a little less shaky. Oh, my pretty, pretty boys. Hehe. Do they tell you why the count despises Riff?
*pets the manservant* I almost don't want to be mean to him anymore, but since I'm the angst queen I can't make any promises. Hehe.
*muah* You are love dear.
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REALLY? *salivating some more*
You shouldn't write things like this, dear... really. *g*
I've no idea why the count despises Riff. Or servants in general, I guess. He may be this kind of person who thinks that social position is more important than loyalty or friendship.
*smooches back*
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That makes sense, especially for the time period. Gah. Why won't they just come out NOW!?
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They did come out in France too. I always thought the USA were ahead from us as for mangas' translations...
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We might be in some things, but I don't think that Yuki was very popular over here until just recently. It seems like they decided to release Angel Sanctuary as a test and that people are buying it so they're releasing the others slowly.
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I haven't drawn fanart for months now. I started entering the HP fandom thanks to my fanart, but I don't do it anymore. Your fic may be a good excuse to draw fanart again. :)
Somehow I thought this because when I first started reading mangas, it was either in Japanese (well, reading is not the right word, just looking at the pics like a five-year-old little girl would be more appropriate) or in English... and my mind set up then teh fact that the USA did translate a lot whereas France was late. *g*
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Dude...men's corsets? My mind is simultaneously boggled and intrigued. I definitely didn't see THOSE in my search. Clearly, I was looking at the wrong sites!
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I shall peruse your fic post haste, then. Yay for shiny at work!
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I want more cravats though, I've decided. :p
Hey, OT question. I was watching the Ouran last night, and there was umm...MOE? The one where the girl wants Mori to like her and he only wants to make Honey happy. I can kind of deduce what MOE is, but I don't know exactly, and I've seen it on icons, so now I'm all curious!
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From what I've seen, moe (J. verb - budding) is love for an anime/manga/video game character, often related in terms referring to fire (flames of moe, burning with moe, etc.) since moeru means to burn. A character who inspires feelings of moe is called a moekko. The term can be sexual in nature, but it isn't always; sometimes it's used kinda like "otaku," in that it can describe someone who's really into something. In this context it seems kinda meta, since it's characters in the anime calling other characters moe.
Um, okay, I'm done lecturing now... ^_^; Sorry...
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<3's the meta-ness of it all.
I have a Fruits Basket question now too. Hehe. Aren't you SO glad you brought all that over? :p
It occured to me the other day that Shigure and Ayaa and even Hatori to an extent, get to have lives on the outside, and one would suppose that Hatori went to Uni since he's a doctor, and they're all Jyuunshi...(did I just screw that up?) So how come Akito is going to 'claim' Kyo and Yuki and make them stay at the compound? Why are they different? Does that get explained? If it does then you don't have to tell me. I am probably going to be needing scans after tonight though. Haha. Especially if I'm ever to get to that WTF moment.
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Well, Kyo is different because he's the cat (which gets explained) and Yuki is different because his parents basically gave him to Akito as kind of a...plaything, really; something to torment, whatever, and Akito is very possessive. As for the Mabudachi trio, I think the fact that they're older than Akito plays into it (very) slightly (with another, juicier reason for Shigure -- oooh, you're gonna freak about that reason!), but mostly I think Hatori is a doctor because Akito knew the Jyuunishi (I don't know how to spell it either =_=) would need a doctor who knew about the curse, Aya...doesn't seem to interest Akito very much, and Shigure...well, you'll see. **evil grin** So yeah, it's 'cause Akito is capricious and evil.
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Though, I did just read Yuki's Parent/Teacher conference on the way to work this morning (dude, you can totally read manga at stop lights) and I'm interested in finding out whether or not what his mom said about him being the head of the family is true. But if she had given him to Akito, then I can see it. A tool eh?
I may have wrongly assumed that Shojo was supposed to be for teenage girls, with lots of pretty boys and all. But I realized last night that Cain and Godchild are Shojo too. Is it all this mind-fucky?
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I'm pretty sure shojo is for teenage girls, with josei being targeted at older (say, college-aged) women. I wouldn't say it was all mind-fucky, but I haven't read all that much shojo, really. And do you mean mind-fucky as in the plot makes you go WTF???, or mind-fucky as in psychological abuse?
I used to read in the car too, until a trooper yelled at me over his loudspeaker thing from the next lane over. Damn cops... >.>
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Stupid State Troopers! Though, that did make me laugh. I was trying to hide one from a cop next to me yesterday on the way home. *shifty eyes*
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Nice fic, by the way! ^___^
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And thank you for reading! :D
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