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Title: Backward Children
Author:

kat_nano
Pairing: Ryou/Amane
Fandom: Yuugiou
Theme: 6. the space between dream and reality

"Stories live inside the heads of dead men," says Amane. "Let's talk about getting the dead to speak."

Ryou loves Amane's crazy-talk-- mama flinches at it, and it makes papa say she should be locked up, but Ryou could listen to it all day. Amane does not live in her own little world, but walks a tightrope between dreams and reality, just like the acrobats at the circus. The only difference is that Amane hasn't got a net.

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"Play wedding with me," says Amane, who has put on a black dress and a string of her mama's pearls.

"There's no priest. You need a priest if you're going to marry me," says Ryou, who loves books and knows things like that.

Amane shrugs and says she can be the bride and the priest.

They aren't supposed to pick roses from the garden, so Amane carries a bouquet of nettle and gorse, and walks backwards down the aisle.

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Amane apologises to the daisy before she tears its petals off. "It wasn't its fault that I have to know if you love me," she tells Ryou. "I felt sorry for it, though. It screamed. My ears are still ringing."

Ryou kisses her so she won't have to kill flowers to know what he feels.

Title: Shrouding Pandora
Author:

kat_nano
Pairing: Ryou/Amane
Fandom: Yuugiou
Theme: 24. good night

once, there was a child's dream

The night after the accident, Amane comes home. Ryou doesn't ask why she's standing beside his bed, when she's supposed to be in a coma; or why there's a moonbeam shining straight through her, right where her heart should be. He doesn't want to know the answers.

She crawls into his bed, and the sheets don't wrinkle undeneath her. Ryou reaches for the curtain of the window beside his bed, and pulls it shut. He doesn't like seeing the outline of the bed through her body.

When she leans over to kiss him goodnight, he shuts his eyes and pretends he can feel her lips against his forehead.

Title: Look Up
Author:

kat_nano
Pairing: Ryou/Amane
Fandom: Yuugiou
Theme: 1. look over here

Look up, Brother. I know your stupid books are interesting and all, but I can't read them from up here, and I'm lonely, and you've been reading those books for hours. Why don't you want to notice me? I think you know I'm here. You talk to me in your sleep. I used to reply, until I saw you wake up crying one morning, when you thought you dreamed I kissed you.

If you don't look up, I'll learn to break things without touching them. I'll tear up your room-- rip your posters off the wall, shred your books, break that damn Ring you keep in your desk drawer. You shouldn't keep the Ring anyway. Every time you put it on, you turn into someone who doesn't miss me.