Broken Doll: Krul x Lest Karr

Broken Doll

So this is just a quick one-shot for my OTP, I might write a full book for them as well if I find the inspiration, but for now just enjoy Broken Doll! (Also, the bottom right panel in the image above is the one I mentioned in the description; the shock's there, but so is the 'That's not true' from episode 11. Mika reference because why not?)

7000 years ago

"Hey! Krululu! Where are you off to?" I called, curiosity apparent in my breathless voice. It's difficult for a vampire to tire, but I'd been chasing the pinkette for about an hour now and we were both starting to get tired. She turned to me, crimson eyes blazing in annoyance, snapping, "I told you; it's not for you to know! Do you have to know all the ins and outs of my daily life or something?" I fearlessly met her fuming gaze, and replied, "No, but today you said we could practice sparring together."
"Well, sorry, Lest, but there's something I need to do," she told me curtly, and that's when something inside me snapped. "Damn it, Krul, that's the third time this week! What exactly is so important that you have to keep ditching your best friend to see to it?!?!" My voice was growing louder and louder with each word, and by the end, I was shouting. But I didn't care, nor did I care that people were staring. "Act your age for once!" Krul chastised. I glared at her but lowered my voice nonetheless. "Seriously, though, Krululu, what is it? You can tell me. I mean, we're friends, right?"
"Well, yeah, but-"
"Then tell me!" I cried, drawing a few more stares. "Let's go somewhere quieter," I grumbled, before taking Krul's hand and leading her through the city. She was staying  with me for a while, so she wasn't entirely sure on our local geography. "You don't have to hold my hand anymore, you know; I'm not a child," Krul informed me coldly, and I stopped in the middle of the silent road we were on and stared at her. "I don't get you, Krul. Yesterday you were laughing and joking with me like normal best friends do, and now suddenly you're acting cold as ice! What's going on, Krul?" I asked, and she sighed. "It's not for you to know," she repeated, and I glared at her. "Damn it, why do you have to be so secretive? You know you can tell me anything, Krul, so why are you being so distant? You're acting like I'm some child you need to protect!" I yelled. Krul's cold response haunts me to this day; the one reason I've never forgiven her; the one major issue between us. "That's just it, Karr. You are a child. You're naïve, immature and have no sense of the future. And that is why you'll never be able to be my equal; that is why I cannot tell you what I have been doing: it is not for a child to know." With those parting words, she turned and disappeared from the road, from my view, and from my life. Krul never spoke to me as anything more than a rival again, our friendship as forgotten as the rose pendant I had made for her birthday, the one I was planning to give her that day.

Present Day

I chuckled slightly as I conversed with Waldo Gilles, second progenitor. "I have nothing to do in Germany," I protested, "because I'm ruling it perfectly. But Japan under the rule of Krul Tepes," I spat her name with the same venom that her voice had held all those years ago, when she had cut off our friendship. I had never found that pendant; I guess one of the livestock found it. I would've told myself it would probably look better on them, but deep down I knew no one could, in my eyes, be more beautiful than my nemesis. I still could not let go of the feelings I had developed for her after 7000 years, and I was fed up with them. However, no amount of will could get rid of them, so I just ignored them the best I could. "Is different," I continued. "Something unexpected happened recently; haven't you heard about it, Lord Gilles?" My speech was interrupted by a messenger bursting into the room, calling "Lord Gilles! The humans, those humans in Japan, they have carried out the Seraph of the End experiment once again!"

I heard Lord Gilles mutter something. "What was Krul Tepes doing?" he asked no one in particular, and I smirked despite the worry gnawing away at me. "Wow, she must have a lot of responsibilities on her shoulders...if only I had been there-"
"Silence, Karr," Lord Gilles ordered, before turning back to the messenger. Apparently Japan was holding the Progenitor Council immediately. "Haha, what's this?" I asked gleefully, glad to see my rival in trouble despite the part of me that feared for her safety. "Is she trying to give an excuse?" Lord Gilles said nothing, and simply led me out of the building to Basilio Cathedral. I was almost surprised at what I saw; it seemed the rumours were true. Lord Gilles had indeed created quite a positive environment for his humans; they seemed pleased, and the culture matched the old one. I said as much, and he simply asked, "Is that sarcasm?"
"Not at all, I'm being honest here," I insisted. "I probably can't do better than this," I admitted, gesturing to the joyful humans around me.