estirose | King, Waiting (Kamen Rider Kiva AU)

Summary: Mio promised to come back. Taiga waits. AU. PG/8+.

Note: This is a bit of an AU that I occasionally batter about in my head. It spoils late Kiva, and is set post-series.

King, Waiting
by Estirose
c 2011

Taiga wished he had a camera set up at Mio’s grave site. He well remembered the last view he’d had of her in that place, taking her suitcase and walking towards where her remains were buried. His only hope was that he hadn’t hallucinated, that she was going to live once more. That he was going to have his Queen back, she and Wataru would marry, and all would be well with the world.

After all, she’d grown into being his Queen while in that place; they could work together now as they were supposed to do, and it didn’t matter if they were married or not. He’d find a good wife who could defend herself, and Mio and Wataru would be happy.

As it was, he made the trip out there every few days, hoping that Mio found the envelope addressed to her at her grave, and stay put. Mio could be incredibly brave; she could also be foolish, he hated to admit. And he wanted to protect her just as he always had. She was his weakness, something he’d only admit to himself, the one that he would save over just about anyone. The man who had dared shoot her over something Taiga had done had known that well, and he smiled a little bit as he remembered the death he’d inflicted on the man who had hurt his Queen.

She’d been so out of it, so lost, in the days before she’d left, but he’d seen a smile on her face and a hopeful look in her eyes as she’d walked away. It was what sustained him, the chance that he’d get her back and he could make up for everything he’d done wrong with Wataru and MIo. He knew that the moment he could, he’d be getting her in her wedding dress and shoving her and Wataru into a place where they could say their vows. There were things to take care of, of course, first. Like resettling Mio into a new life and making sure that death truly had ended his own marriage to her.

To be honest, he wouldn’t mind sharing her with Wataru, and Wataru with her, but he didn’t know if Mio or Wataru would be comfortable. Maybe they would; they’d been open to something similar, but their situation was much, much more complex.

But he could do nothing about it until she came back, if she ever did. He resolved to go back the next day, check the grave, see if she was there. She’d stay put, as he’d instructed her to, because she’d been low on Energy and she knew how to deal with that.

Even with that, he didn’t want to miss her, didn’t want her to wait that long. Didn’t want her to suffer anymore. But he had faith in her, and she had faith in him, and everything had to be all right.

Crossposted from Ramblings Yet Once More here.