/ backflips in/ if there's any prospect of heir guitar i'd love an angsty three-sentence fic w/ that ;;3;;
Of COURSE there is. Angsty, eh? I can do angsty.
I couldn’t decide between “general” and “SR specifically” so I did both.
They’re someone else, now, pretending to be the man she loves. They’re living in fear, telling themselves that she’ll destroy them if she ever knows they exist, or that Byakuya-chan was first and foremost a lie. But the part of this they fear the most is that the lie might last forever, that they can never love her how she deserves to be loved, that they’ll never find out how much better and more understanding she could be than the rest of humanity.
She could galvanize them to save the Impostor, to bring them out of the fever, to get to the bottom of whatever’s taken hold and destroyed everything she once loved. But there’s nothing that could accomplish, not without losing their support entirely. She isn’t even sure if it’s possible herself, and the thought of her own doubt is the one she most wants to repress.