Title: Salt
Category: fan fiction, one-shot
Genre: dark
Rating: PG-13
Date: May 4, 2006

Written for 30_kisses
Theme: 6 - the space between dream and reality
Pairing: hyde and Megumi (L'Arc~en~Ciel)
Disclaimer: I do not own/am not affiliated with L’Arc~en~Ciel, Sony Ki/oon, Danger Crue, hyde, Megumi, etc. This is a work of complete fiction. It’s for fun; I’m not going to make any money off of this. However, this particular story is my own writing, so please do not claim it as yours or repost it without permission.
Comments: Plot outline requested by sherlock_nomes
Word Count: 397
POV: First person (hyde)

Someone is screaming.
They’re calling my name, I know that much, but I can’t hear what it is…

There’s a face in a photograph and a hand on my shoulder, a gentle smile that might just be for me...or maybe it was the camera.

There’s the laugh of a child and I think he’s mine…even if I thought I was certain I couldn’t even keep care of a cactus. But the woman taking his hand, crying, she looks so familiar.
And the feel of that woman beneath me doesn’t seem wrong.

I taste something sweet on the fingers of a lover…their face is hidden and I can’t reach the mask to pull it away.
I taste liquid metal and watch them torn away.

Salt water burns and soothes a wound I didn’t know I have, closes around me and fills my lungs, but my eyes are open to the filtered light and I am not afraid…

Red-polished fingernails trace wings on my back, wings that unfurl to guide me into a blaze of cold fire. I smell rubber burning and all I can do is shiver.

I thought I was running, but I was the only thing still.
Why am I dizzy?

There’s a song, a voice I know but cannot place. My lips part to sing along and all I hear is gasping.

A sea of faces, chanting that name again…I can see them, feel them…how long will I wait before I know what they’re saying? I know it’s for me.

The wine in the glass is finer than anything I’ve had before, and the lips pressed against my neck are almost too soft to be real. The motion of her hips leads me and I’ll follow forever if she’ll never let go.

But her nails dig into my wrist as she pulls me away from something hazed in silver and I’m cold…
I pull away and she comes after me.
I’m too fast for her.
I don’t know why I’m hiding.

I know her. When I reach for the mask it shatters, her kisses are cold, and the blood on her lips is mine.

I can fly here.

I’m sinking.

I have omniscience in a world of the blind.

If I give it up, will I remember?

Will I miss it?

Do they miss me?

What have I missed?

I trust you to tell me.



((Request by sherlock_nomes:
For hydexMegumi: 4 the space between dream and reality
I got this idea as I was listening to Deloused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta and is born out of my facination of dreams...
Now, I'm going to be totally evil here, but Hyde gets into some accident (whether it's a car accident or something else is up to you) that gets him seriously injured and in a coma for a few months. But in his mind, he has dreams that seem incredibly real that he can't comprehend what's happened to him. He just continues journeying through the cosmos of his mind not remembering who he is or where he is. But as he "travels" deeper into the realm of these dreams, realizations surface as he regains his memory and finally he has to decide whether or not to stay in this sleep or wake up to be with his family again, therefore being stuck in the space between dream and reality. Which will he choose? :O
I know it's really abstract and strange, but I've always wanted to see a fic writen entirely in a dream and this seemed like the perfect way to do it ^_^))


please comment if you read.
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