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sittingoverheredreaming:

@awesomefrauellauniverse You’ve probably forgotten you ever prompted me, and this isn’t very good but I was determined to do something with your prompt. So here it is! Just under 900 words, in an AU where Uranus and Neptune didn’t awaken.

The Opposite of Destiny

Haruka
shot up from her tangle of blankets. “What was that?”

“It’s just the wind, babe, come back to sleep.”

But the wind alone was never so compelling. It had a
partner, sometimes, who was swift and direct and impossible to ignore.

“I’m going for a run.”

“What? It’s…” Sleepy fumbling for a phone. “It’s not
even four.”

“I gotta. I’m sorry, I’ll try and be back.”

“Try? Haruka-!”

But Haruka was already pulling on shorts and bolting out
the door. She would not be back, she knew, not really. It was hard to stay
still, stay rooted, when it found her. She had to escape to find her
peace. It always took time to catch up to her again.

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