[Rurouni Kenshin] let there be (more) light

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Title: let there be (more) light
Author: Ayezur
Fandom: Rurouni Kenshin,
Rating: G
Story Links: AO3
Author Links: FFnet | AO3 | tumblr
Summary:Rangers who have lost half of themselves do not return to the drift. It is madness to try. But it was madness that made the Jaegers in the first place, madness to think that the world might be overrun by monsters out of drive-in movies, and therefore Kenshin does not think that a little more madness will do much harm. Pentecost agrees.

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“Disengage,” he tells the control room, and doesn’t add I told you so.

“No.” Her voice is a prayer flag on the highest mountain, ragged and bleached white. “I can hold him. I can do this.”

And then she’s blazing across his mind like a comet, past the wound and into the deep dark places that only one other person has ever seen and he wants to scream at the invasion but she does not relent. Fireworks light his skull and when they settle her mind cradles his like a mother with a frightened child.

“Okay,” she says, still weeping: but her voice is strong, stronger than his has ever been. “Okay. I’ve got you. Let’s do this.”
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