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...

[identity profile] crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com 2011-02-02 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe I can find a curling iron. Would you like to have curls, Elicia?

[identity profile] crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com 2011-02-03 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Curls it is, then. We can also share stories, if you want, and stay up as late as you like.

[identity profile] crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com 2011-02-04 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, but... [almost whispering now:] we'll need to get a flashlight to do that properly.

[identity profile] crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com 2011-02-05 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Lots of blankets and pillows. We can make a fort in the living room.

[identity profile] crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com 2011-02-05 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't, however... Maybe if Haruhi agreed... Perhaps Elicia would like to watch The Lion King.] I might be able to get it.

[identity profile] crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com 2011-02-06 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shhhh. He's just sleeping.]

Did you know they put movies on discs here, instead of reels? They're like tiny record albums.

[identity profile] crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com 2011-02-09 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Winry knows it's not, but she'll play along.] You might be right!

[identity profile] crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com 2011-02-10 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[T-t-t-t-too much cute. It's like the Elicia's birthday party all over again - Why is she so adorable?]

You really think so? I would have never guessed!

[identity profile] crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com 2011-02-11 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That would definitely explain why we can't see them.