Sleeping Beauty – A Perfect Circle

“Aya-chan, can you hear me?”

Tenderly, callous covered fingers brushed a few stray strands of bluish-black hair from the peaceful looking face.

“You know, it might all end tonight… All the revenge, all the lies… Soon, I may be able to give you back your name…:

A sigh escaped the young man’s lips as the features of Fujimiya Aya remained motionless in her coma-induced sleep. Three years… Three years of string this revenge along.

Ran rubbed his thumb over the hand he held in his grasps, humming a song lightly under his breath. It was an old song, something he vaguely remembered for a childhood of Disney movies.

“You remember all the movies kaa-san used to buy? The old Western fairy tales? You… kind of remind me of one… You know, that Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty? Yeah, you remember that one, right?”

No, “Silly Nii-chan,” nor a reprimand of his words – Aya always did liken herself to The Little Mermaid more. 

With a sigh, Ran leaned down and placed a kiss on her brow, his fingers massaging her hand one last time. “If only I could be the one to waken you… Goodbye, Aya-chan.”

And, with that, the young, insecure Ran was locked away one more, leaving only Abyssian of Weiß, the man who lost his smile. He had a Takatori to kill and some idiot teammates to save – just, not necessarily in that order.