a mirror warrior

Title: .monologue
Wordcount: 5623
Pairing: Hotta Katsuhiko/Bem (Inu wo Kau to Iu Koto/Youkai Ningen Bem)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: No significant spoilers for either dramas, post-Inu, pre-YNB. Genre-wise: Futurefic, ANGST, messy timeline, strange formatting, awkward sexual situations, not enough porn, slight vagueness, shy!awkward!Bem, shy!awkward!Bem who keeps looking at the floor
Notes: This fic is sort of fragmented into two, with the left indicating the present and the right indicating the past.

Written for krysyuy for je_holiday, whom I had (too much) fun lying and trolling during the entire course of writing and posting. I'm sorry for all the trauma I inflicted by writing this to you and I promise you I'll write something happy for them. Someday. Originally posted here. To krys, the "dear Krys" note in the original is obviously fake. Please don't kill me. /runs

Thanks to pinkeuphoria1, as usual, for helping to beta, and the various handholders. Thank you guys :(:(

Summary: Hotta was different. He was not just another human waiting for Bem to save.

( Time always stands still for Bem. )