[Flashfic] Expectations [Haruka, PG]
Title: Expectations
Fandom: Harukanaru Toki no Naka de
Pairing: Tomomasa/Takamichi
Rating: PG
A/N: For uke-chan. Somehow managed to fuse your ‘candy’ prompt into it too~ XD
When he wakes, it feels like he’s swallowed a mouthful of sand. Tomomasa is perched on the end of his bed, smoke ringing from the pipe tucked at the corner of darkened lips. Perched, because that’s what Tomomasa is - a ridiculous, preening peacock that doesn’t care for anything unrelated to disproportionate gluttony.
“What have I told you about smoking in here?” he mutters hoarsely, half-sitting up and feeling for his glasses. It doesn’t come out very well - garbled, like the thoughts in his head - but Tomomasa seems to understand, glancing over in his usual offhanded fashion.
“It’s a hideous way to go: working yourself to death.”
“Like you would know.”
Later, he will wonder where the bitterness has come from, but now is the time for being childish and unfair - because he’s ill and grumpy and Tomomasa is, well, Tomomasa.
“Don’t say anything,” he grinds out, “And give me the sodding medication.”
A breath, rustle of silk, clatter of wood and ash. Tomomasa is right there and - “It tastes just like candy, I promise” - kissing - kissing him. Takamichi. Tomomasa.
“Liar.” But they kiss again anyway, and that foul, artificial, Westerner flavour disappears, eventually, into his throat.
“I love you, you know.” Liar, he thinks.
Aloud, he laughs, in a weary, disbelieving sort of way.
“You really shouldn’t say what you don’t mean.”