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...

[ action ] /shields her from life forever

[identity profile] idkmybffroy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ He'll turn up shortly thereafter with a little smile firmly in place and the universal offering for a hug. It's his fatherly duty, isn't it?

Everyone could use a hug right about now anyway. ]

[ action ] such timely shipping!

[identity profile] idkmybffroy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ She can get as many tears on his shirt as she wants and see no loosening in grip; she's Elicia, and Gracia is home again after such a short time here, and she's only five years old, she needs her mother.

As ever, the malnosso have managed to cross over all lines of what any sane person could consider fair. ]


It'll be fine.

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[identity profile] idkmybffroy.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
I know; I wanted her to stay a while longer, too. [ He can grant Luceti the merit of people with good advice about this kind of thing. ]

We'll just have to be sure to remember everything we can, so we can tell her all about it if she comes back.

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[identity profile] idkmybffroy.livejournal.com 2011-02-06 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's a very good idea! [ He'll have to be sure to thank Mister Vash :|a ] We can even take a few pictures for her.

[ ;A; we can do this, Elicia ]

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[identity profile] idkmybffroy.livejournal.com 2011-02-07 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
I mean it completely. [ And he could not say no to any request she makes right now, seriously. ]

I'm sure we'll be able to find you a really nice one, too!

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[identity profile] idkmybffroy.livejournal.com 2011-02-08 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ GOOD GIRL :< ]

If we can't find one like it, I'll help you decorate one~

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[identity profile] idkmybffroy.livejournal.com 2011-02-09 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
I think we can find everything we need over at the item shop. I haven't checked in there in a while.

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[identity profile] idkmybffroy.livejournal.com 2011-02-09 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course! It's a matter of the utmost importance, after all! [ Let's get the best stickers that ever existed ever ]

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[identity profile] idkmybffroy.livejournal.com 2011-02-12 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Right. Let's go. [ If Elicia thinks they can get through this, he'd never dare fail to do it. ]