InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Laconic ❯ Internal Bleeding ( Chapter 6 )

Internal Bleeding

Word Count: 189

 

The first time she stopped bleeding, she cried.

 

She cried a hole into which bled hope, a poisonous hope that found its way into her head where it took root and grew lies; grew lies that entangled themselves so deeply within her that she refused to see the absence of blood - of real blood, that bled on the outside, not the inside, like the hope that ran poison through her veins.

 

And so she did not see that no blood blossomed on the sheets, no bright red bloomed between her thighs and trickled relief down her legs, no cycle came to seep safety into the bindings that remained clean and unwashed and tucked away.

 

And she waited in blindness, until a moon had come and gone, and then with it went her wishes and her optimism and her lies, and they slowly drained away, until they had faded from her completely and left her sightless.

 

But then in the darkness she felt a something that lit inside her, a something-else that grew and glowed through her.

 

And this time a new hope came and bled sight back within her.