[Fic] Madoka Magica — Sacrifice Play
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spindizzyTHIS IS NOT A HAPPY FIC EVEN SLIGHTLY, I AM SORRY. I think this originally started off as me trying to reconcile Revolution!Homura with Regular!Homura and also Baby!Homura with EternalSoldier!Homura and the result is... Um. Something that I am probably going to look at in the morning like ?!?!?!?!?!?
Madoka Magica // Sacrifice Play
T (Violence) | 433 words | Homura, Sayaka, Madoka; Kyoko and Mami mentioned | Spoilers for episode ten, unrelated major character death. | Sayaka does it herself without any prompting from Homura.
Sayaka does it herself without any prompting from Homura. She has alternated between dead-eyed unconcern about everything and manic glee for days, her soul gem darkening more and more. She still fights witches though, leaving the grief seeds where they fall until Kyoko forces them into her hand. This witch is one Homura has only encountered a handful of times; it's a girl that Kyoko saves sometimes and misses others, and Homura hasn't worked out why yet. The witch flings a book the size of a car at Madoka -- she fires at arrow at it, throwing the book backwards -- but the witch swoops under it, her wire-framed glasses a hole in the world --
Sayaka dives in front of Madoka.
She's laughing like her heart is breaking, swords held out to the sides instead of trying to block, and Homura doesn't see Sayaka's soul gem break, but the laughter stops like a speaker shut off. Blood splatters across the ground and Madoka's shoes. The witch's claws stop inches away from Madoka's stomach, Sayaka caught on them.
Kyoko is screaming, leaping onto the witch with fire blazing through her hair, trying to reach Sayaka as though there's anything to do. Mami is weaving nets from ribbons to trap the witch; she'll crack later, she always does when she isn't the first to die, but this hasn't happened before and Homura's not sure If she'll break.
Madoka is frozen, staring at Sayaka as the witch tries to shake her off its hand and rip itself free of Mami's trap. Sayaka's head lolls back, and her swords slide from her hands, and Homura just wraps herself around Madoka and leaps out of its reach before its other hand comes down.
Later, she's going to flick her hair back over her shoulder and tell them that there was no way to save Sayaka anyway; her soul gem was black anyway, which Kyubey will understand. She will tell them that the grief seed will not support four magical girls, one of them mostly gone anyway, and Kyoko will rage but she will understand. She will tell them that she was too late, that she didn't have magic to stop time and Mami will crack along the faultlines Homura already knows about.
Whatever she tells them, Madoka will shake and shake, arms tight around herself, not even aware of her tears. Homura will press grief seeds on her instead of telling her that once, lifetimes ago, she'd promised to protect her, she'd promised. If she has to sacrifice every other magical girl to do it, she will.
Madoka Magica // Sacrifice Play
T (Violence) | 433 words | Homura, Sayaka, Madoka; Kyoko and Mami mentioned | Spoilers for episode ten, unrelated major character death. | Sayaka does it herself without any prompting from Homura.
Sayaka does it herself without any prompting from Homura. She has alternated between dead-eyed unconcern about everything and manic glee for days, her soul gem darkening more and more. She still fights witches though, leaving the grief seeds where they fall until Kyoko forces them into her hand. This witch is one Homura has only encountered a handful of times; it's a girl that Kyoko saves sometimes and misses others, and Homura hasn't worked out why yet. The witch flings a book the size of a car at Madoka -- she fires at arrow at it, throwing the book backwards -- but the witch swoops under it, her wire-framed glasses a hole in the world --
Sayaka dives in front of Madoka.
She's laughing like her heart is breaking, swords held out to the sides instead of trying to block, and Homura doesn't see Sayaka's soul gem break, but the laughter stops like a speaker shut off. Blood splatters across the ground and Madoka's shoes. The witch's claws stop inches away from Madoka's stomach, Sayaka caught on them.
Kyoko is screaming, leaping onto the witch with fire blazing through her hair, trying to reach Sayaka as though there's anything to do. Mami is weaving nets from ribbons to trap the witch; she'll crack later, she always does when she isn't the first to die, but this hasn't happened before and Homura's not sure If she'll break.
Madoka is frozen, staring at Sayaka as the witch tries to shake her off its hand and rip itself free of Mami's trap. Sayaka's head lolls back, and her swords slide from her hands, and Homura just wraps herself around Madoka and leaps out of its reach before its other hand comes down.
Later, she's going to flick her hair back over her shoulder and tell them that there was no way to save Sayaka anyway; her soul gem was black anyway, which Kyubey will understand. She will tell them that the grief seed will not support four magical girls, one of them mostly gone anyway, and Kyoko will rage but she will understand. She will tell them that she was too late, that she didn't have magic to stop time and Mami will crack along the faultlines Homura already knows about.
Whatever she tells them, Madoka will shake and shake, arms tight around herself, not even aware of her tears. Homura will press grief seeds on her instead of telling her that once, lifetimes ago, she'd promised to protect her, she'd promised. If she has to sacrifice every other magical girl to do it, she will.
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