Flowers of the night

Fandom: originali
Prompt: Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt (Il fato conduce colui che vuole lasciarsi guidare, trascina colui che non vuole) (m5)
Rating: giallo (accenni di morti)
Parole: 486
Warnings: //

Sometimes Tatsuya dreams of it. It doesn't matter that he's far away from his homeland, from what he was there - a mafia leader, a squad leader, a citizen moving through the streets where he grew up and where he lost everything. He dreams of fire and screams, of people leaving and never coming back - despite the fact that they came back, so many times he lost count, until he had the strenght to try and rewind that scene of death, until he understood that death never come back. Not if you don't have what it takes in terms of determination and someone to sacrifice. A life for a life.

Sometimes he has the feeling of numbness he felt back then when he was going astray in his own consciousness; sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night with the urge to scream until his lungs burn - he doesn't, to not worry his partner and not scare their son.

If he thinks at that moment, he wonders: was his lack of power, or was just fate? 

He cursed fate once when his mother died and then again when he saw the building in fire. He thought fate can go die, but maybe he should have listened, maybe it was a warning. 

In response, fate dragged his ass where he was supposed to be: between humans, not gods who decide who dies and who lives.

«Tatsuya-san?»

Yukinaga's voice catches him off guard. When he looks at him, Yuki's expression is attentive, trying to figure out by himself if something is wrong; Tatsuya smiles vaguely: «What were you saying?»

«They send us a request from Russia.» Yukinaga replies, not very happy about it. Tatsuya knows that his subordinates are not fond of Russia at all, giving what happened almost every time they went there for work «Seems like they need assistance.»

«Your thoughts about it?» he asks, taking advantage of the situation to teach him - because someday Yukinaga will be a leader, if he stays with them until then. He must know that making decisions is part of this whole mechanism called "a group".

«...I would prefer to avoid it if possible.» he says, too honest for his own good «No offense for Rodion, but Russia is never something good, usually.»

«It isn't at all, I agree.» Tatsuya can't help but chuckle, because come on. «But?» he presses the younger one, knowing there's more to it.

«But maybe not going will make things worst. So I suppose we can't really help it.»

«Is it your instict?»

«No, I just think that if we have the chance to make the relationship better we should do it...?»

Ah, Tatsuya thinks, such a wiser leader we will have.

«Let's do it, then. Call the others for me.» 

For sure, this group will be blessed and leaded by fate this time and it won't be towards ruin.