Challenge [104] Wonderland

[isabeau1025.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, this took forever to write. Great prompt though. It was really challenging. I enjoyed it a lot.

 

Challenge: Wonderland

Title: Rain in the Rabbit Hole

Word count: 275

Notes: I think it’s too vague to have any spoilers.

 

Rain pounded loudly on the roof and Riku sprawled in darkness, not by choice so much as by necessity. When the palm trees bent so low their leaves left patterns in the sand it was time to close the storm shutters.

 

It didn’t bother him though. The storm had finally cut away the heavy heat and the rain reminded him of a tin roof on some half forgotten world where he hadn’t quite slept through the night, but there had been something soothing about the sound and the way it made Mickey’s ears twitch.

 

What world had it been, he wondered, hazy and sleepy now that the storm had done away with the choking stillness. He couldn’t remember, and he wasn’t sure it mattered. Like home, with an ocean of grass instead of salt water. Maybe.

 

Riku stretched and yawned, saw thunder and heard lightening, and wondered if it hadn’t been home, the little world with the tin roof and the rolling grass waves. Hadn’t Mickey said they could tie a sail to the wagon they had seen abandoned along the road, and sail instead of the endless walking?

 

Maybe he had said it. Riku didn’t think they had done it.

 

Wind laughed, like a child in the trees and Riku kicked his blankets to the floor. The air was light, but the night was still warm. Would he know that world if he ever went back to it, recognize the tin roof that had made Mickey’s ears twitch? A little haven of soothing storm amidst the darkness that bit and gnawed until he bled.

 

A rabbit hole he slipped down, every now and then.

 

Comments

[lindskaba.livejournal.com]

I can't...really place why I love this drabble so much, but it really makes me smile. Something really soothing and sweet, rare things to be associated with Riku, but I like it when they are :3 My favorite bit is Mickey's ears twitching, and how the memory of it makes Riku feel XD omg, the image of the two of them sharing a room, and Riku just watching Mickey sleep and his ear going twitch twitch twitch omg... so, so cute. And of course the last line. LOVE. Great job ♥

[isabeau1025.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it. It was fun to write something a little hazy and not too plot driven.

Thank for taking the time to comment :)