Title: Dead and Alive
Theme: Vital Signs
Series: Vampire Knight
Character: Zero
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: don't own
What distinguishes between dead and alive?
What distinguishes between here and there when already half of you has slipped away?
What is left to tell you to keep holding on when the flame that keeps you burning has been extinguished?
This descent was always inevitable, spinning him slowly out of control even while she managed to hold him at a grinding halt.
If she walked in now, could she recognize him?
Could she, would she, with this crimsontide going out for the last time?
The color is disgusting him even now.
Eyelids flutter shut.
He feels himself unwind.