#tales from the parallax (i'm envisioning this as part of a series ruh roh)

[rcmclachlan]

tease tidbit tuesday

thanks @dadvans for the tag! This comes from Permission Slip, my current WIP prequel to Heritage Site.

Touya lets out a long sigh and looks at the ceiling. "It's… bad."

"Tell me anyway." Tell me how long this has been happening without my knowledge. Tell me if you were thinking of them every time I let you inside me. Tell me their name. Tell me who wrestled your heart away from Tsukishiro Yukito's ghost. Tell me who I must concede defeat to. You owe me this, Yue thinks viciously, which is unfair but feels justified.

Kinomoto Touya has always been brave, far more than anyone ever gave him credit for until his showdown with Ma Hajime. He inhales deeply, steels his shoulders, and looks Yue right in the eye.

"I accidentally invited a fourth grade class from Tomoeda Elementary here for a field trip."

The first time Yue had ever seen a television set was when Sakura was still just a girl. She had been looking for a way to watch family movies and needed an older television to connect to the ancient contraption the movies had been filmed on. There was one in the attic her father had held onto from his first year of marriage to Nadeshiko, and it took Sakura, Touya, their father, Daidouji Tomoyo, and two of Syaoran's horrible sisters to figure out how to run it. When they first turned it on, the television produced a jarring sound that had Yue reaching for a blade, as well as a million shifting black and white dots that Touya called "snow."

That awful, jagged sound is all Yue can hear as he stares at Touya.

Touya stares back, then throws the match by averting his gaze to the floor. He rubs the back of his neck with a sheepish grimace, looking as if every word is being pulled out of him with rope. "Uh, they're coming Friday."

Stunned, Yue looks down at the stretched-out magic of the syzygy tide on his workshop table and, with mounting horror, says, "I would have vastly preferred infidelity to this."

"Yeah, I know," Touya grumbles, then blinks. "Wait, you what?"

Tagging @ataraxetta, @sonatine, @alchemyalice, @stitchyblogs, @lemonistas, and @itsevidentvery