Spotify Writing Prompt: How About Song 73?

Whumptober Day 30: What Have I Done

A/N: This is another instance of @yumizurueleonora and I have an entire au for years and then never post about it.

Accidents

On instinct, Toya doesn’t knock when he unlocks Akito’s apartment. It’s never been a problem between the two of them, but it’s after stepping inside that he thinks he should have warned Akito he was coming over.

He stays in the entryway, unsure if he should leave, when Akito walks over, in boxers and an oversized shirt and looking like a mess.

“Oh,” Akito mutters. “Are you here to yell at me too?”

“No,” Toya says. “From what I hear you’ve gotten enough of that.”

Akito collapses onto the couch. “Thanks partner, you always know just what I need. Want to help me plan the wedding?”

Toya freezes. God he thought he'd have more time to mend this rift between them, but now here Akito is, getting married.

“That’s a joke,” Akito says. “Sorry, it’s a bad one. We’re just going to the courthouse and filing paperwork.”

“No, of course it’s–” Toya takes a deep breath. “You know I’m here for you, partner, right? No matter what happens, whatever you need, I’ll always help you.” Even if it’s helping with your child with another woman.

“Wanna help me box up all the alcohol I have? I can’t really stand to look at it right now but it’d be a waste to toss it all so I’m gonna give it to Ken.”

Toya nods, and heads over to Akito’s liquor cabinet. Akito's not much of a drinker, so most of the bottles gifted to him are still unopened.

Toya starts taking them out and carefully putting them into the box Akito brought over, but Akito pulls out one of the bottles.

“Wait, hold on,” Akito says. “Not this one.”

Toya takes a better look at the bottle and realizes it’s a German wine he’d gifted Akito on New Year’s.

“You’re just going to let it sit there?” Toya asks.

“It’s a gift from my partner, I don’t want to just give it away,” Akito says. After thinking for a second, he uncorks it and pours two glasses. “To the worst mistake of my life.”

Toya takes a sip from his glass. “Akito, do you… want to talk about it?”

Akito stays silent. “Honestly… no. ‘Cause if I talk about it, I think I’ll run away.”

“Would it be running away?” Toya asks. “You’re marrying someone you don’t love.”

“Hey, I do love Natsumi!” Akito says. “And I'm the one who got her pregnant because I was too drunk to realize the condom broke.”

Toya swallows his jealousy. “You aren’t ready to get married, or have kids.”

“It’s too late to do anything now,” Akito says. “It’s my responsibility.”

“She was the one who didn’t notice she was pregnant for five months!”

“She said it’s complicated!” Akito says. 

Toya crosses his arms. “I’m just saying you're not the only one to blame.”

“Well if we made this mess together, we gotta clean it up together too,” Akito says. “You can’t seriously say if it was Saki, you wouldn’t expect the father to step up?”

“I…” Toya takes a deep breath. “I see where you’re coming from, I really do, but you have to see this won’t make you happy.”

“I’m a piece of shit who got a girl pregnant, what makes me happy is kind of the least important thing in this situation.”

“Is it fair to the child if their parents don’t love each other?”

“I do love her!” Akito snaps. “Natsumi and I, we get along, we’re good together, we’ll make it work. And this way she gets some security and really it’s the least I can do.”

Akito finishes his glass of wine. “I’m too tired for this. Can we talk some other time?”

“Akito,” Toya says, “you’re making a mistake.”

“I already made the mistake, and I don’t need people to keep reminding me. Now get out.”

Toya gets up and slinks away. His hand hovers at the door knob, and for a second he wants to turn around and tell Akito he loves him, but one glance back at his partner tells him what he already knew.

Toya’s chance passed a long time ago, and now he’ll never get it back.

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Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kiritani Haruka/Shiraishi An, Aoyagi Touya/Shinonome Akito, Aoyagi Touya & Kiritani Haruka, Aoyagi Touya & Shiraishi An, Shinonome Akito & Shiraishi An, Kiritani Haruka & Shinonome Akito, Kiritani Haruka & Shiraishi Ken, Shiraishi An & Shiraishi Ken, Aoyagi Touya & Shiraishi Ken, Kiritani Haruka & Touno Arata Characters: Kiritani Haruka, Shiraishi An, Shinonome Akito, Aoyagi Touya, Aoyagi Harumichi, Shiraishi Ken, Touno Arata, Mita Koutaro Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Unit Shuffle (Project SEKAI), it’s just VBS Haruka and MMJ Kohane though MMJ Kohane is never mentioned Series: Part 2 of A Twist of Fate Summary:

Haruka Kiritani is a young woman who has been An Shiraishi’s partner for as long as she can remember, on her way to surpass a legendary night that they promised to all those years ago.

Or: What if Haruka Kiritani never learned how to smile?

Whumptober Day 18: Revenge

What goes around comes around

Kenshin takes another drink from his beer as the bar blurs around him. His favorite bartender isn’t even in town this week, so he doesn’t get to have his favorite cocktail or talk with someone.

Without her here, he just sinks into the background of the bar as people chatter, expecting to drink until closing and be ignored, as usual. 

“You can look right through me, walk right by me, and never know I’m there,” Kenshin sings to himself against the latest idol music the drunk college girls wanted to sing to is.

“Hey, here by yourself?” 

Kenshin turns to see a woman with orange hair and a smart suit sits down next to him at the bar. 

“You talking to me?” Kenshin asks.

“Is anyone else here worth talking to?” 

Kenshin snorts. “No, obviously.” He sticks out his hand. “Kenshin Suzuki.”

The woman takes his hand. “Yoka Tono.”

“So, Yoka-chan, what brings you here for the first time?” Kenshin asks.

“How do you know it’s my first time? Maybe I just come on the days you’re not here.”

“I’m here every day,” Kenshin says. “From work gets out ‘til my sister’s kid gets home from cram school. My sister doesn’t want him seeing me coming home in the middle of the night.”

“Haven’t missed a single day?”

“Nope, not in three years, so I know you’re not a regular.”

Yoka chuckles. “Ok, you caught me. Yeah, I just heard about this place and wanted to get the vibe.”

“The vibe is it’s cheap and they don’t kick you out no matter how much you drink.”

“Sounds like my kind of place,” Yoka says. She orders a beer and chugs it.

“Whoa, now I like a woman who can handle her alcohol.”

“Really? Most men are put off by it.”

“I mean it!” Kenshin says. “I don’t care for all the prissy shit women like my sister are worried about.”

“Tell me about your sister?”

“Ah, she’s a pain in the ass,” Kenshin sighs. “I busted my ass to pay her way through college, and now that she’s a successful corporate bigwig she thinks she can tell me how to live my life. Ungrateful bitch.”

“No wonder you’re here all the time then.” Yoka takes another swig of her beer. “Whoo, strong stuff! I should call a taxi for tonight, don’t wanna be driving after a glass of this.”

Kenshin laughs. “Eh, don’t worry about it. I can take you home.”

“Oh, that gonna be your last glass?”

“Like hell. Nah, when you’ve been drinking as long as I have, as long as you’re awake you’re as good as a sober man. I drive home all the time, no one’s ever noticed.”

“Never? Really?”

“‘Cause I’m not stupid. I know how to drive, even when I’m drunk.”

“Still, seems risky,” Yoka says. “Car accidents cause a ton of deaths and–”

“Oh my god stop it, you sound like my sister,” Kenshin says. “I know the damn statistics, and they happen when people are sober and when they’re drunk. The difference is I’m smart, and know to be careful.”

“Oh,” Yoka says slowly. “So if you were driving home late at night, trying to get back to your apartment before your sister’s kid came back from cram school, and saw a couple of kids crossing the street, you’d slow down right?”

“Brats oughta get out of the way,” Kenshin says. “Pedestrians have the right of way, it’s a load of crap. What are they gonna do if I hit them?”

“But you’ve never been in a situation like that?”

“No,” Kenshin says. “Never.”

“Even last week?” Yoka asks. “Last week you weren’t driving home in a white car with your license plate, jumped the curb, hit a young man, and then drove away?”

“Lady, the fuck are you talking about? You a cop or some shit?”

“No,” Yoka says. “But I am an attorney, and the mother of the boy who was with the one you hit last week. The one who now needs extensive surgery because of you. And I look forward to seeing you in court.” 

re-reading my own fic because the author has exactly my taste in tropes, ships the same ships in the right way, and also shares my sense of humour. what a find, what a revelation. i hope they write more of this sort of thing.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Caligula Effect (Video Game), Genei Ibun Roku #FE | Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Original Female Character(s), The Caligula Effect Protagonist, Akagi Touma, Yumizuru Eleonora, Minamoto Mamori, Kurono Kiria Additional Tags: So okay in like. One line Mizuki mentions that she’s dating Kensuke, but one line, is not enough to tag it, Mizuki Shima is my name for the Caligula Effect protag Summary:

Mizuki Shima. Her life has been hard. She gets drawn into a perfect world.

…Mizuki has choices.

…So technically this is an OC fic and it’s a mix between this game and another but fuck it. 

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Power Rangers S.P.D. Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sky Tate & Original Female Character(s) Characters: Sky Tate, Jack Landors, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: This is pure self-indulgent bullshit, also, Bad Things Happen Bingo, :3, Implied Sexual Content, very vaguely, just mentions Summary:

Sky runs into a burning building.

This is for @badthingshappenbingo​ for the prompt “Power Fatigue!”

Whumptober Day 9: "Frame me up on the wall..."

Curation

As Sensei sleeps soundly in his room down the hall, Yusuke’s mind drifts back to the painting of him in that museum.

It’s all so surreal. To think those arrogant strangers had a means of seeing what he couldn’t despite living there.

But that isn’t true, is it? Despite only awakening to his Persona today, Goemon’s weight in the back of his mind is comforting, like an old friend, reminding him that he did know, he just turned a blind eye, and took it out on the others when they tried to warn him. 

Still, the painting of him, of all the pupils, lining the halls of that museum, somehow that’s more haunting than anything else he’s seen today.

Yusuke had never given much thought to how Sensei thought of them. At the worst, he assumed Madarame didn’t remember everyone who’d passed through the atelier and everyone he’d stolen from. He must not give them much thought, because how could he remember the faces and names of every single pupil and not care about them or what happened to them?

Yusuke remembered, he remembered all of them. His heart aches for the day this place had even one other person for him to talk to when it was truly alive. But seeing their faces perfectly preserved in Madarme’s heart, proudly displayed in fact?

What is Yusuke to make of it? That Madarame remembers everyone who suffered under him and is happy about it? There’s no ounce of shame or introspection? He can remember the faces of students who screamed and cried and demanded he give their work back, who now look completely different because they’re reduced to begging for scraps at the train station, some of whom are dead, and what? Nothing? 

Yusuke feels haunted every time he closes his eyes and thinks of all those students lining the halls of the museum, his own face frozen in an eerie smile that doesn’t match how he’s face in a long time.

The idea that Sensei could remember all of them and feel nothing is the most chilling thing about that place. Moreso than hearing the words from Sensei’s own Shadow.

Then there’s the other fact that Yusuke doesn’t want to consider. Ann had briefly described seeing her own cognitive self in the heart of the last person they’d confronted, and her shadow had been a person.

A caricature of her, sure, but someone capable of moving under her own power.

To Sensei, Yusuke and the others were, what? Objects? His creations? Surely Sensei understood that Yusuke was a person, right? That he had feelings and fears and cried and got hungry. He’d raised Yusuke after all, how do you raise someone you don’t think of as a person? And worse, it makes Yusuke feel stupid for daring to think of him as a father. Because that was it, wasn’t it? Sensei raised him from childhood, and none of it mattered. Yusuke wasn’t any different from any of the hundreds of other pupils.

And to Yusuke’s shame, the fact that he isn’t special to his foster father hurts more than anything else.