Motel (M/B, PG-13)
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:58 pm
Title: Motel
Author: redwinter101
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own Moonlight or any of its characters
Note: I guess motels have been on my mind.
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--- Motel ---
Death is here, taking up residence among the cockroaches and sickly heat.
He has done all he can to save Leni and her baby and now he is entrusting her to me. In that moment, he is calm, serene. He has decided. A brief flash of regret, connection, a sense of what might have been between us. In this low place, filled with grime and stench, there is joy and wonder.
To him, this is how things should be, how things must be.
No-one should be that sanguine about dying. He values his life so little, a fair exchange to save a stranger. But I know I can't lose him; he can't die, no matter the cost or consequence.
This strong man's helplessness calls to me, a song of ages. He needs me, yet it doesn't even occur to him to ask. I am right here, red life coursing through me yet all he sees is the end of dreams.
I offer myself to him and watch the horror spread across his sickly face. He is appalled, disgusted at what he must do to survive.
He trembles with fear, of himself, of what is to come.
I am afraid, but not of him. I fear pain. I fear the unknown. I fear the hot swell of desire spreading through me. Above all I fear his death.
At that moment, his fear is overcome by the terrible beauty of need. He needs me and for the first time I understand what it means to save a life. I feel a power I could never have imagined: life, death, hope, wrapped in a tangle of emotions neither of us understands.
He pierces me, a growl, a sharp jag of pain. Drawing in close, he turns, pulling, hiding as he suckles.
My life to his.
I want this to last for ever.
Nothing will ever be the same again.
Author: redwinter101
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own Moonlight or any of its characters
Note: I guess motels have been on my mind.
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--- Motel ---
Death is here, taking up residence among the cockroaches and sickly heat.
He has done all he can to save Leni and her baby and now he is entrusting her to me. In that moment, he is calm, serene. He has decided. A brief flash of regret, connection, a sense of what might have been between us. In this low place, filled with grime and stench, there is joy and wonder.
To him, this is how things should be, how things must be.
No-one should be that sanguine about dying. He values his life so little, a fair exchange to save a stranger. But I know I can't lose him; he can't die, no matter the cost or consequence.
This strong man's helplessness calls to me, a song of ages. He needs me, yet it doesn't even occur to him to ask. I am right here, red life coursing through me yet all he sees is the end of dreams.
I offer myself to him and watch the horror spread across his sickly face. He is appalled, disgusted at what he must do to survive.
He trembles with fear, of himself, of what is to come.
I am afraid, but not of him. I fear pain. I fear the unknown. I fear the hot swell of desire spreading through me. Above all I fear his death.
At that moment, his fear is overcome by the terrible beauty of need. He needs me and for the first time I understand what it means to save a life. I feel a power I could never have imagined: life, death, hope, wrapped in a tangle of emotions neither of us understands.
He pierces me, a growl, a sharp jag of pain. Drawing in close, he turns, pulling, hiding as he suckles.
My life to his.
I want this to last for ever.
Nothing will ever be the same again.