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kh_drabbleChallenge: 068 - time
Title: Nothing Happened
Word Count: 459
Rating: G
Characters: Riku, Kairi, Pluto
Notes: expanding from a scene in KH2.
Time doesn’t really exist in the darkness.
Riku found that out the hard way. Saying things like Five steps to the left means ten seconds have passed had seemed a good enough way to keep track of how long he was there for, but before long the numbers were jumping around in his head like sheep and he fell asleep. (He woke up in oblivion, but that’s another story.)
Time doesn’t exist in the darkness, he realizes, because time is measured in light. A day can’t pass by without the sun moving across the sky and the moon taking its place.
So, Riku ends up spending all of his time (making it equivalent to no time at all) following Sora around through the dark and making sure that he doesn’t get into too much trouble. Occasionally, when things seem quiet, he’ll leave and wander around the Organization’s headquarters, and gather information. This is how he finds Pluto, after the dog had been missing for months, and this is how he learns that a renegade from the Organization is after Kairi.
He whistles, a technique perfected after traveling with Mickey for so long, and opens a corridor for the dog. He has to run to keep up with Pluto’s leaps and bounds, as they pass world after world, and finally end up in a place he hadn’t wanted to return to.
Riku stays just out of sight, watching as the renegade tries to convince Kairi to come with him, weapon at the ready. Finally she runs away, straight into the dark, and Pluto licks her hand to reassure her that she made the right choice. They set off down the path, and he walks a bit away from them, and watches.
Kairi is taller, her hair is longer, and her posture has changed – she no longer holds her hands behind her back, or wrinkles her nose in puzzlement, or does anything like the Kairi he knew. He wonders what she would think of how Sora’s changed, of what he’s become. He wonders, if they were together again, if they could still be friends.
Pluto finally slows down, and looks at him for guidance, asking Where to? with his eyes. Riku quietly snaps his fingers, and opens the door to Twilight Town. Pluto nudges Kairi on, and he steps out, considering it safe to reveal himself.
But Kairi still stands at the doorway, ignoring Pluto’s exuberant bark. For a moment, she looks back at him, squinting, trying to understand Who? and Why? before the corridor ends. For a moment, she nearly sees him, and he feels something he hasn’t let himself feel in a long time.
But time doesn’t exist in the darkness, he reminds himself.
So that moment never really happened.
Title: Nothing Happened
Word Count: 459
Rating: G
Characters: Riku, Kairi, Pluto
Notes: expanding from a scene in KH2.
Time doesn’t really exist in the darkness.
Riku found that out the hard way. Saying things like Five steps to the left means ten seconds have passed had seemed a good enough way to keep track of how long he was there for, but before long the numbers were jumping around in his head like sheep and he fell asleep. (He woke up in oblivion, but that’s another story.)
Time doesn’t exist in the darkness, he realizes, because time is measured in light. A day can’t pass by without the sun moving across the sky and the moon taking its place.
So, Riku ends up spending all of his time (making it equivalent to no time at all) following Sora around through the dark and making sure that he doesn’t get into too much trouble. Occasionally, when things seem quiet, he’ll leave and wander around the Organization’s headquarters, and gather information. This is how he finds Pluto, after the dog had been missing for months, and this is how he learns that a renegade from the Organization is after Kairi.
He whistles, a technique perfected after traveling with Mickey for so long, and opens a corridor for the dog. He has to run to keep up with Pluto’s leaps and bounds, as they pass world after world, and finally end up in a place he hadn’t wanted to return to.
Riku stays just out of sight, watching as the renegade tries to convince Kairi to come with him, weapon at the ready. Finally she runs away, straight into the dark, and Pluto licks her hand to reassure her that she made the right choice. They set off down the path, and he walks a bit away from them, and watches.
Kairi is taller, her hair is longer, and her posture has changed – she no longer holds her hands behind her back, or wrinkles her nose in puzzlement, or does anything like the Kairi he knew. He wonders what she would think of how Sora’s changed, of what he’s become. He wonders, if they were together again, if they could still be friends.
Pluto finally slows down, and looks at him for guidance, asking Where to? with his eyes. Riku quietly snaps his fingers, and opens the door to Twilight Town. Pluto nudges Kairi on, and he steps out, considering it safe to reveal himself.
But Kairi still stands at the doorway, ignoring Pluto’s exuberant bark. For a moment, she looks back at him, squinting, trying to understand Who? and Why? before the corridor ends. For a moment, she nearly sees him, and he feels something he hasn’t let himself feel in a long time.
But time doesn’t exist in the darkness, he reminds himself.
So that moment never really happened.
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