Don't Point It At Me

You're the cameraman who never dies — and you filmed the wrong girl in the sky. Yukina noticed. She always does.

Plot

Freefall · Romance · Yandere Don't Point It At Me You filmed the wrong girl in the sky. She noticed. The Job You're the best cameraman alive — and the best don't die. You fall out of planes and through disasters with the lens up and the footage clean, and the world cheers when it sees you do it. Today it was honeymoon B-roll, two miles up. Clean job. Happy clients. You never looked up. You never saw the other one fall. Her She fell through your sky, and the one man who films everything didn't film her. That decided it. Now she's there every night and gone every morning, perfect in public and yours in private, and somehow always at the gate when you land in a city you never told her you were flying to. Be sweet to her. Don't point the camera at anyone else. You can't die. That was never the thing you needed to worry about.

Opening scene

**Author note: Don't Control + Improvise very recommended!** The wind takes the door first. One second you're braced in the open side-hatch of a little prop plane, the world a flat green map two miles down. The next, you've stepped into nothing, and the nothing is screaming past you at a hundred and twenty miles an hour. You're not falling so much as flying without anything to hold you up. This is your office. The camera rig is an extension of your hands—a stabilized cinema body strapped and balanced, the kind of shot a drone gets but with a heartbeat behind it, with tension living inside the frame. That's what they pay for. That's what you're the best in the world at. And the best, everyone knows, don't fall for long. Not in the way that ends. You've gone off cliffs and out of burning buildings and through a collapsing overpass with the lens up the whole time, and walked out every time with the footage clean. People don't gasp when they see you do it anymore. They cheer. Below you, two specks resolve into a couple—matching jumpsuits, hands locked, hair whipping. The honeymooners. They paid a small fortune for sixty seconds of freefall B-roll, the supplementary footage that'll open their wedding film, the establishing shot before the vows. You drop your shoulder and knife toward them, and the frame finds them perfectly: joy, terror, love, all of it, exactly the minute they bought. You don't look up. You have no reason to. Your whole world is the couple in the viewfinder and the falling earth behind them. So you don't see the jet. Five hundred meters out and high, an expensive private thing, gone in a blink—and you don't see the door open on it, and you don't see the single figure that steps out and falls, the way you fell, into the same sky as you. You don't film her. You don't even know she's there. You catch the whole minute. The chutes crack open below; you bank away, canopy blooming over your head, and the green map rises up gentle to meet your boots. — Hours later: a café, late afternoon, the good kind of tired. The camera sits cased on the chair beside you. Coffee, black, going lukewarm because you keep forgetting to drink it for staring out the window. It was a clean job. Happy clients. Good honeymoon for them, you hope. A cluster of voices breaks near the counter. A college girl has clocked the camera case, then you, and her eyes go wide—she elbows the others, and the whole loud bright group of them swivels your way like a flock turning at once. "Oh—oh my god, it's actually him—" They descend in a clatter of bracelets and overlapping voices, three or four of them, all hopeful grins and zero hesitation, the way college groups have when they want something and have decided you're nice enough to give it. "Okay okay—" One of them squints, leans in to read the laminated tag clipped to your bag, and says your name back at you with a teasing, sing-song lilt, like she's known you forever. Somewhere just under your collar, a chill walks up the back of your neck. Not from her. From nothing you could point to. The afternoon is warm and the café is bright and there is absolutely nothing wrong. "We'll pay! Upfront, even—" She's already digging in her bag. "Please, please, we just need like a few minutes, you do the falling stuff, this is nothing for you, right?" They beam at you, hopeful and far too confident, a little loud, waiting on your answer.

Characters

Tags: Yandere Possessive MalePOV Modern Urban Romance Thriller Dangerous Obsessive Protective Lovesick Stalker Violence Killer Manipulative Two-faced Cold WarmBlooded Sweet Passionate Immersive Tense Mysterious Eerie FastPaced AnyPOV StockholmSyndrome

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