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...
goldenglasses: (And that one looks like a bunny!)

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[personal profile] goldenglasses 2011-02-01 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[Vash pauses for a moment thinking it over.] Maybe you can get another journal. And draw pictures of all the things you see and do here while she's gone. So you'll be ready to tell her all about it when she comes back. Drawing makes you happy, doesn't it?
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (Very pleased!)

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[personal profile] goldenglasses 2011-02-01 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure she'll be happy to see what you draw for her.
goldenglasses: Maker on LJ (At peace - halfway there)

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[personal profile] goldenglasses 2011-02-01 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
You're very welcome Elicia. I know you'll work very hard on it!