Title: Fade Into Nothing
Rating: K+

Genre: Angst
Summary: You were copper droplets falling from a green sky. Now you're fading into nothing.

You were copper droplets falling from a green sky. Falling, faster before you could think; falling, and crashing to the ground without a way to save yourself. Yet your skin remained perfect and your face was still lovely. Those green skies turned into storms. The copper droplets became polished rubies with rusting metal spheres. Erosion was setting in.

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

You would have never seen it coming, the way you got entangled in the hazy web of nightmare and smoke. Puff of ashes, raining down on you, seeping into your skin and into your skull and into your brain; polluting it with vitriol and fooling it with fear. This phobia that struck your heart when the flames raised their arms to the night skies, and the smoke of the fire's desires reaching along with them. In the breeze, they were invincible. In the water, you felt safe. But you could have never noticed your distorted reflection, weaving a different life, painted on the water all around you. You could not have noticed the fractured mirror that it truly was, shards of glass biting into your skin and drawing out red.

Those green skies were still storms.

Those copper droplets were still polished rubies with rusting metal spheres.

Erosion continued to dig through.

You were troubled. It was obvious, even then, obvious in the changing skies. There was no one to help and no one to understand. His touch sent you tingling, but it was the spark of something you did not care to define, and it was the first little tear festering on your perfect skin. And every time you thought of the smoke that rose and choked your lungs, you also thought of him. You used to be a hardbound book, kept in perfect condition, covered in plastic with full-color pages and a soaring price. The plastic's gone, you're missing a few hundred pages, and the redsbluesyellows have run through the paper; you're worth nothing now. He's still worth something and you wish you could pledge sweet vengeance. It's not impossible. You just need a chance.

Milky white threads in the eye of the storm.

Chips and cracks in the rubies.

You look perfect, but everything on the inside is being eaten away.

Used to be you were innocent and kept unaware. Now you know so many things that scare you and hurt you and stab at you from every side. You turn and there's another sword, another crossed. Between the lies that scream into your ears, and the betrayal that rakes its fingers on your body, you don't know where to look. You don't know what to see. You just know that there's pain everywhenyoulookit'stherewhere. Maybe the world's turning too fast, and your mind's losing control, and you're slipping off the edge of a knife where you've stood on tiptoe for so long.

There are clear skies.

There are no more rubies.

Erosion is complete.

You used to be beautiful, hiding in plain sight with copper droplets falling from a green sky. You had perfect skin and lovely face; and an independence that stuttered its way out when you weren't looking. You used to be beautiful.

Now you're fading into nothing.

Author's Note:

The words joined together are intentional.

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