PoT: Before You Repent

[striking_sparks]

Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Pairing: Tezuka/Ryoma
Rating: mild R
Continuity: manga, no specific spoilers
Warnings: angst?
Notes: For pillarchallenge, and also for kessie. Set a good thirteen years post-canon. Title is translated from La Jardinera by Violeta Parra - antes que tú te arrepientas.

Comments

[kessie]

Oh, Chiya. :( You. Those two boys. I can't stop loving everything you write.

*feels helpless and amazed and awed all at once*

[flyby]

♥

[storyteller]

Oh. Oh.

My heart has broken into itty bitty pieces. I'm crying.

This is so hurtful and good and right. Oh.

I'm incoherent, I know. God.

[flyby]

They made me cry too. They are idiots. :(((((

Thank you!

[happiestwhen]

"Buchou," he chokes out, fingers tightening spasmodically as Tezuka's face tells him all he needs to know. They have never needed words for this, Ryoma thinks. Then he steps back, gulping for air as Tezuka releases his hand and heads to the bench.

That moment right there is perfect.

[flyby]

Thank you. ♥

[takewing]

Add me to the list of people who were crying by the end of this fic, plz. ;__;

Just... they are both so stupid and it was heartbreaking. Ack. And the awkwardness and the not knowing what to say and then not needing to say anything at all, just knowing...! So well done. So perfect.

Oh boys. ♥

[flyby]

*was the first on the list*

They are a pair of stubborn idiots. Ryoma sulking and Tezuka just waiting and gahhh.

Thank you! ^_^

[aidenfire]

They fight it out for so long that Ryoma remembers other matches, thirteen years gone; he laughs breathlessly as he throws back another Rising counter, eyes locked with Tezuka's. Neither of them are looking at the ball at all any more, and there is no doubt in Ryoma's mind as to what he wants, now. He's taken the world, but Tezuka is everything.

This, this is the kind of thing that sets my OTP off like nothing else. There is no one else who can give those two that kind of moment, and there's nothing they need more. There's no one else for them. And god I love this whole story and want to carry it around with me forever and ever.

[flyby]

They need each other so much. :(( I love them.

Thank you! ♥