Bleach Fanfiction

Title: Ice Is Also Great and Would Suffice
Author: Branch
Genre: Fluff, Angst
Rating: PG (but serious about the angst)
Pairing/Characters: Byakuya, Rukia

Warnings: spoilers for Soul Society arc

Summary: Rukia has to deal with lingering injuries and Byakuya finds old habits of care returning.

Ice Is Also Great and Would Suffice

It had been coming for days; she’d felt it like a presence standing behind her shoulder, stepping closer and closer again until it merged with her backbone and unstrung her. She didn’t know why it was now, why this hadn’t happened when she was locked away or about to die or at some other time that made sense. She just knew she couldn’t hold it back any more, and a few hot tears spilled over as her breath rasped harshly in her lungs.