kh_drabble | Challenge Entry.

Challenge: [048- Leon and the Puppies]
Title: All the Difference
Author:

written_doodles (Ellie M.)
Word Count: 184
Notes: Just a quick little something that wrote itself in my head before hitting paper. That, and I miss my own puppy very much. He's at a pet hotel right now, you see, and we've just come home from a long vacation without him. So, err, this is a little bit dedicated to my precious puppy, Oz.

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He had a puppy once.

Maybe that explained why he harbored such a secretive bit of affection for the creatures. Maybe because it was a small fragment of his past that wasn’t as riddled with sadness as the rest. A puppy wasn’t much, but it was a gift; one that he’d kept and grown fond of.

But then one day, that puppy vanished.

He figured that it ran away. It never came back, the puppy. He didn’t see much of any sort of puppies afterwards.

Maybe they all ran away from him.

It did seem that way; but he never said anything.

But then, in Traverse Town, he met those Dalmatian puppies.

And those puppies didn’t run away from him.

So maybe that’s why it meant something to him when they were taken away against their will; these puppies didn't run from him - if anything, they quite liked him. Perhaps that’s why it meant maybe a little bit more to him if they were found.

Of course, he’d never admit it.

But he did have a puppy once.

That made all the difference.

FIN
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Comments are loved! Thank you, dears.
-Ellie