SAW IT BY THE WATER | SUNDAY
nearly a year has passed since sunday lost you. now, though, as he shares an afternoon by the river with YOU, he can't help but wonder how much of this time he's allowed to savor. . .
SUNDAY X GN!MONSTER!READER | ~2.2K WORDS
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- INFO: THE SUMMER HIKARU DIED au ; angst ; character study ; AMBIGUOUS relationship
- WARNINGS: reader is a monster who has taken on someone else's identity, so you (in italics) = the monster, and you (not in italics) = the original person you have replaced ; kissing and touching over clothes ; extensive horror themes and imagery (detailed warnings below) ; discussions and depictions of grief ; no resolution
- DETAILED HORROR WARNINGS: body horror ( inc. monstrous transformations and blood ) ; themes of consumption ; discussions of death ; discussions of SH ; depiction of stabbing ; please proceed with caution.
NOTE . . . thank you so so much to briar ( @rafayelsheart ) + moonie ( @moonriselabyrinth ) for beta reading this disaster . . ! i am so appreciative of you two, for this and for everything else <3 (also, title is a reference to "at the beach, in every life" by gigi perez)
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The first time Sunday ever came to the river with you, both of you were kids. So small, your tiny hand had folded around some silvery fish and whipped from the current to show him. When he tries, he can still remember how you sounded back then: Look, Sunday! It's so—Ah!
The fish had escaped back then, slipping back into the stream. You hadn't minded, though. You'd only laughed.
Now, as he stands behind you in line at the usual cafe by his house, your laugh sounds nearly the same. There is the same sweetness, the same free levity. But there is something else, too. Something silky and quivering. Unraveling.
He is sure it would be the same if it were really you.