Fic: "Lovers" (Larxene, Darkness #2 - Callous)

Larxene glanced over at the young man lying naked on the bed beside her. His dark-eyed, puppy-dog gaze was enough to make her puke, but she just tilted her head curiously. “Is that so?”

The boy – Larxene never could remember his name – looked wounded, his mouth set in a delicate pout. “Well yeah – we are... lovers... aren't we?”

Lover? She had never considered the little human a lover. A plaything, maybe – a distraction from the monotony of Castle Oblivion. Their sex was an intellectual game of sorts as she experimented with various ways to elicit maximum pleasure and pain from him. And it did remind her of her days as a human, before she became a hollow shell. But a lover?

Larxene turned onto her side and began to run her long fingers up and down the boy's chest. “Are we lovers, you ask?” She laughed and kissed him, long and hard. “Of course not,” she purred when they finally parted. “Whatever gave you that stupid idea?”

The boy's expression vacillated between surprise, disbelief, and sorrow; Larxene found it fascinating to watch the complex dance of emotions play across his face. She wished she could do that.