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Trinity Blood ficlet: Lament
349 words. G? Depending on how you choose to read the implication.
Cain, Isaak and quotations from a certain play.
Lament
Disclaimer: Trinity Blood belongs to Sunao Yoshida, Gonzo and others.
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“Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.”
Isaak looks up from the text at the sound of that mellow voice reading over his shoulder. “Mein Herr…”
Cain smiles his usual serene smile as he gestures for Isaak to remain seated, since Isaak is possessed of the most adorable habit of almost constantly genuflecting in his presence. “I must be gone and live.” Cain continues the stanza as he moves towards the bookcase along the far side of the room.
“Or stay and die?” Isaak phrases the line as if it were a question.
Cain glances back over his shoulder, absently curious.
“Mein Herr of course I would-“
A hand held up for silence is all that is required. “I have more care to stay than will to go: Come, death, and welcome. Juliet wills it so.”
Isaak is silent at that.
“How is’t, my soul?” And in an instant Cain has crossed the room again and with a finger under Isaak’s chin tills his face up so their gazes meet.
Even then Isaak attempts to look away.
“I’ll not have you die for me.”
“Then how…” Isaak’s voice trails off.
“You will live and see that my work is done. Abel will need guidance when I am gone.” And with that pronouncement made, Cain departs as silently as he entered.
Isaak stares down at the text in his hands for long moments. Each page is filled with poetic tragedy, each scene rife with skilfully woven despair and yet every line rings hollow and every stage direction false. Because there are not words enough for his burden.
Romeo is a fool and Juliet just a snivelling girl.
The book slips from his hands and for a moment his vision is blurred by the beginnings of grief. Then brushing a hand across his eyes he stands up, retrieving the book to put it back in its place on the shelf.
“There rust, and let me die?”
He rests his hand on the book’s spine as it sits on the shelf.
“No… not yet.”
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Cain quotes from Romeo & Juliet, Act 3, Scene 5, quoting Romeo’s lines specifically. Isaak quotes Juliet’s lines from the famous stanza in Act 5, Scene 3.
The term ‘genuflecting’ has religious connotations unlike ‘kneeling’ which is rather more generic.
And the title itself is taken from full title of The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
Cain, Isaak and quotations from a certain play.
Lament
Disclaimer: Trinity Blood belongs to Sunao Yoshida, Gonzo and others.
++++++++++
“Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.”
Isaak looks up from the text at the sound of that mellow voice reading over his shoulder. “Mein Herr…”
Cain smiles his usual serene smile as he gestures for Isaak to remain seated, since Isaak is possessed of the most adorable habit of almost constantly genuflecting in his presence. “I must be gone and live.” Cain continues the stanza as he moves towards the bookcase along the far side of the room.
“Or stay and die?” Isaak phrases the line as if it were a question.
Cain glances back over his shoulder, absently curious.
“Mein Herr of course I would-“
A hand held up for silence is all that is required. “I have more care to stay than will to go: Come, death, and welcome. Juliet wills it so.”
Isaak is silent at that.
“How is’t, my soul?” And in an instant Cain has crossed the room again and with a finger under Isaak’s chin tills his face up so their gazes meet.
Even then Isaak attempts to look away.
“I’ll not have you die for me.”
“Then how…” Isaak’s voice trails off.
“You will live and see that my work is done. Abel will need guidance when I am gone.” And with that pronouncement made, Cain departs as silently as he entered.
Isaak stares down at the text in his hands for long moments. Each page is filled with poetic tragedy, each scene rife with skilfully woven despair and yet every line rings hollow and every stage direction false. Because there are not words enough for his burden.
Romeo is a fool and Juliet just a snivelling girl.
The book slips from his hands and for a moment his vision is blurred by the beginnings of grief. Then brushing a hand across his eyes he stands up, retrieving the book to put it back in its place on the shelf.
“There rust, and let me die?”
He rests his hand on the book’s spine as it sits on the shelf.
“No… not yet.”
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Cain quotes from Romeo & Juliet, Act 3, Scene 5, quoting Romeo’s lines specifically. Isaak quotes Juliet’s lines from the famous stanza in Act 5, Scene 3.
The term ‘genuflecting’ has religious connotations unlike ‘kneeling’ which is rather more generic.
And the title itself is taken from full title of The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.