Nathalaia



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    Collection of flash fics (1.000 words) written for Tinysparks.

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    The three (four) stories belonging in the world of Timeless (Kuroshitsuji).

    Original: Timeless
    Sequel: Fears of Yesterday
    Sequel: Snowy Days
    Sequel: Beyond My Control (Working title. As of yet unfinished. It's currently unknown if it will ever be written.)

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    It is the final day of the siege of Suchdol. Judgement Day, some would call it later on. The Praguers' camp had been razed to the ground by reinforcements arriving from Rattay: with Markvart dead, the rest of their forces flee.

    Yet, despite being taken back, no victorious hymns echo through the fort. Mortal silence falls upon them: in the heart of the inner courtyard, Sir Hans Capon of Pirkstein kneels, unmoving, on the blood-soaked ground. No words reach him—no hands are strong enough to pull him away. Those who try to approach him cross themselves: the young lord is blind to the world.

    It is only Father Godwin’s prayer that breaks through; his palms shaking, spread over Hans’ head: Pater noster, qui es in cælis, sanctificetur nomen tuum; adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua.

     

    Fiat voluntas tua, he repeats, and waits.

     

    Sicut in cælo et in terra, Hans finishes, his voice breaking. He raises his eyes for the briefest moment—as Godwin kneels down to gently pry his hands away.

    Henry’s body in his arms is already cold.

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    19 Dec 2025

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    10/10, will cry again

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    Hans’s hand on his wrist, his knee on his other arm. Sitting on his chest, pinning him down. The weight of him. Fragments of the real thing. A poor substitute, but something. To touch him again, even if with his fists. Any way. Anything. He says it again, knowing he must seem obvious, but in his beer soaked mind, in this exhausted and drunk body, it makes all the sense in the world for him to say, “We should fight again. Alright? Fight me again.”

    Hans looks away. The firelight touches the slope of his throat, shadows collecting under his Adam’s apple. “Henry,” he says. “Stop. I can’t bear this.”

     

    Clenched fists. Dark arenas. The iron taste of blood from a split lip. Henry pulls together fragments, finding a way to get close again after rejecting Hans’s kiss.

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    Hans dies at Suchdol and wakes up at Rocktower Pond.

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    12 Dec 2025

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    There was only one Silver Skalitz in Bohemia, and it had already burned to the ground.

    It stood to reason that there was only one Henry of Skalitz in the world, too.

    No more painful feeling exists than realizing you're in love with a dead man. (Even if you still don't know this particular agony is called love.)

    Or: while Hans Capon languishes at Maleshov Fortress, he denies the truth--that Henry was captured, tortured, and killed by Istvan Toth--to himself for as long as he can, until it becomes inescapable.

    Set during the canon KCD 2 storyline; spoilers for the Taking French Leave quest.

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    03 Dec 2025

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    "Are you cold?" Henry asked.

    Without armor, in hose and gambeson, he was still an imposing figure: tall and broad, hands stained with dirt and blood, jaw stubbornly stiff. His bare feet were a shock of white in the dirt. He held his helm with both hands, embracing the metal into his belly. His hair was damp with sweat. There was another string of bruises on his throat, shaped like two wide thumbs.

    Hans looked away. The tunic around Henry's knee had darkened. Blood was trickling into the dirt.

    Hans kills a man, prepares for a wedding, and tries to do at least one thing right.

    (Or: five times Hans and Henry didn't share a bed, and one time they did.)

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    01 Dec 2025