asobouyo: (THE SADDEST!!)
Elicia Hughes • Age 7 ([personal profile] asobouyo) wrote2011-01-30 08:57 pm

17th Teddy Bear [A Sad Accidental/Action] [forward-dated to tomorrow]

[Gracia's gone.

Elicia didn't expect such an impossible idea again, not after having to experience it a first time when she herself had first arrived without her mother. Despite the news and the tears that followed, she still went to school. Be brave, be strong; mama never cried in front of people. So she won't either. She sits through her classes, blank-faced, attentive. Papa must be hurting really bad right now, too, just like mama did when he left.

So she has to be tough, like him.

School is out, and she sits quietly where she always does for her father, near the doors. Expressionless. She goes through her bag, taking out her journal and tucking it behind backpack, taking her fairytale book, tucking it behind her journal, searching, searching—and at last pulls out her sketchpad to draw while she waits; she really doesn't feel the urge to right now, but she's not sure what else to do. She flips open the front, and sees a picture of all three of them.

...all three.

Elicia hugs the sketchbook close to her, crushing her bag and everything in it. The journal slips down at her side, recording the almost-silence; little, quiet sobs shake the backpack, muffled in it. The blank look twists into a pained one, downcast into her drawing.]

...W-where did you go...? You were here, mama... Papa and I want you to come back...!!

Please come back...
thestormishere: (just watch yourself)

1/....5 voice

[personal profile] thestormishere 2011-01-31 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ....... ]
thestormishere: (they won't ever find me)

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thestormishere: (worst. birthday. ever.)

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thestormishere: (what you'll never know)

[personal profile] thestormishere 2011-01-31 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
thestormishere: (that will be all that's left)

[personal profile] thestormishere 2011-01-31 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ .... Damn it. ]

Hey.
thestormishere: (could still feel it)

[personal profile] thestormishere 2011-01-31 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think... something like that has anything to do with you.
thestormishere: (no longer the same)

[personal profile] thestormishere 2011-02-01 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
I doubt it. Sometimes, bad things just happen, without it being the fault of anyone who's hurt by it.

[ Lightning keeps her voice even and certain, though really she's not completely sure what to say. Elicia is young- probably way too young for being forced to face this sort of thing, and while the former soldier is still wary of the girl's apparent ability, she also can't help but reach out to that. ]
thestormishere: (something that's missing)

[personal profile] thestormishere 2011-02-01 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I... don't know. [ So, so awkward here. Lightning knows she can't make any promises for the forces at work here, and isn't going to lie just to spare the feelings of a little girl. When it comes down to it, that doesn't solve anything at all. ]

But what I do know is that you can't just live in constant fear of what might happen - do that, and you're just wasting whatever time you have left. Do you understand...?
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[personal profile] thestormishere 2011-02-02 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ Long silence; she's finally completely stumped on what to say to that. ]

It's Elicia, right? [ Guess who's... kind of a stalker. ]
thestormishere: (from the last time)

[personal profile] thestormishere 2011-02-03 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
... I think you'll be alright, Elicia. You and your dad- you'll take care of each other, right?
thestormishere: (the hero will drown)

[personal profile] thestormishere 2011-02-04 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Good. [ Said quietly and final. People taking care of each other- that makes sense to her. ]