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[masakomoonshade.livejournal.com]

Challenge: {163}Treasure
Title: Don't Look Away
Word Count: 162
Rating: G

 

 

She doesn’t understand her dad sometimes.

Like when he gets angry when he sees the poetry she writes when she gets sad, and tells her not to think things like that, and it takes mom to calm him down, and then he sits alone for a long time and she thinks he should be writing poetry too.

Like when his fingers twitch when he’s watching the news, and she knows that he’s itching to go out there and do something, but he just doesn’t.

Like when he gets that awful, sad look on his face when he watches her play with her friends.

What’s worst, though, is when he sits down and plays with her, and they laugh and smile and hug, and at the end of it he always looks her in the eyes.

“I want you to enjoy your childhood,” he tells her, as serious as though someone had died. “Because once it’s gone you can never get it back."

 

Comments

[wanderinghiatus.livejournal.com]

That's sadly sweet. Who is it from KH though...?

[masakomoonshade.livejournal.com]

It's Sora's daughter.

[wanderinghiatus.livejournal.com]

ooooh. woah. puts a whole new perspective on things!

[suddenchangeofh.livejournal.com]

oh that's good. the afterlife of heroes is a fascinating and probably quite horrible thing, but you've done it brilliantly. Nice perspective, too.