[Fic] Ice Is Also Great and Would Suffice
Jun. 30th, 2008 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Fic post from my archive.
Ice Is Also Great and Would Suffice
Post Soul Society arc, Rukia has to deal with lingering injuries and Byakuya finds old habits of care returning.
It had been coming for days; she'd felt it like a presence standing behind her shoulder, stepping closer and closer again until it merged with her backbone and unstrung her. She didn't know why it was now, why this hadn't happened when she was locked away or about to die or at some other time that made sense. She just knew she couldn't hold it back any more, and a few hot tears spilled over as her breath rasped harshly in her lungs.