Title: Claustrophobia
Rating: T
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts, Loveless
Character(s): Demyx, Kio
Pairing(s): Kio/Demyx
Word Count: 271
Summary: After his loss, Demyx needs to get out; needs to get away. Until he's reminded he's not alone.
Author's Note:
salkia_island universe. Meme prompt from the A-Z drabble meme. For
ladynyoko.
With him, the walls seemed so much bigger. Now that he decided to leave Demyx and go home (well that was assumed when people left the island that’s where they went), the rooms seemed to be out to get him. Kio, his boyfriend was gone. And now, instead of everything becoming bigger, everything felt like it was becoming smaller. He missed him. But how was supposed to feel that emotion without a heart? It was strange. Maybe it was Salkia who gave Demyx one, and well, he couldn’t quite understand. He wasn’t… Myde anymore. Myde had a heart, Demyx didn’t. Demyx couldn’t cry. How could one without a heart cry?
Of all the emotions and feelings he could feel because of the island, one thing he could do without was…
Claustrophobia.
As vast as the darkness was, it engulfed him to the point of suffocation. But Demyx needed to get out. Anything… anything but this place! He couldn’t stay here!
A hand. He saw it! Demyx didn’t know who was reaching out to him, but this hand signaled something. He wasn’t alone. He just wasn’t. Even with Kio gone, there were others around to support him. By no means was there any mention of forgetting Kio, but to move on and keep the memories. It was an experience to grow in. The male knew this now as he took the hand that reached out to him. Finally, he could breathe. Finally, the darkness peeled away.
Finally.
Finally.
The feeling of drowning, of paranoid, of fear, of sadness, of abandonment…
It was gone.
Claustrophobia was gone and Demyx was here to stay.