crack_van | This Unique Distance From Isolation by Dorian Gray (G)

Fandom: YAMI NO MATSUEI
Pairing: Tsuzuki/Hisoka
Author on LJ:

b_hallward
Author Website: Hints & Whispers
Why this must be read: This is a little heartbreaker that turned up during

yami_valentine earlier this year; I've read it on numerous occasions since then with great appreciation and a certain disquiet. It traces an ordinary day in Hisoka and Tsuzuki's life together, and there is something profoundly unsettling about their 'settled' relationship. The writing is spare and lovely, creating a mood of wistfulness and suspension; the little domestic details of forgotten washing, old ballgames and the ceaseless memory of rain all serve to remind the reader that this is a story about the dead.

There are things Tsuzuki means to do, but doesn't. Instead he listens to one of the old baseball games that come on Sunday evenings. It's game six of the 1974 Japan Series and the Orions still beat the Dragons. Then one thing and another and somehow it's almost midnight; Hisoka's already gone to bed. A song is playing quietly on the radio, drifting through the room -- it's a waltz, unhurried and wistful, the kind you slow dance to when you're very much in love.

Tsuzuki turns off the radio; goes around the house locking the doors and turning out the lights.

This Unique Distance From Isolation