stay…i need you

bungoustrayed:

a short Aku/SO blurb. part of a larger thing. ❤

[Akutagawa Ryuunosuke/SO]

His fingers run through your hair gently, digits untangling the damp strands to flick droplets of scented water onto his pants. Akutagawa didn’t even feel the water soak through the cotton; focus completely on your soft breaths curling across his thigh. Your head resting in his lap as you lay across his sofa, finally sleeping after his insistence.

The book he had been reading was discarded next to your sketchbook, closed without a bookmark or dog-eared page to mark his place. His place…in that moment and for all the other moments he could think of, was meant to be with you.

If he had; his thumb traces over the dark violet and indigo bruise blooming on your jaw and creeping up your cheek, you would have been safe. If he had been with you instead like he should have been; palm sliding down your shoulder to your ribs cracked and sore, you wouldn’t be in more pain.

“I will protect you,” Akutagawa swears softly. More so to himself than you so you wouldn’t awaken. “Whatever it takes, even if I must leave your side.”

You nuzzle into his leg sleepily, content in dreams rather than the usual nightmares.

Don’t leave. You think.

Whatever you do, don’t leave me.