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...

[voice]

[identity profile] risingspirit.livejournal.com 2011-02-05 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly! Even when it's cold out!

And I guess if some people think it's too cold for ice cream we can have warm brownies or something. Do you think Sanji would make some?

[voice]

[identity profile] risingspirit.livejournal.com 2011-02-06 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
You should ask him! Or I could ask him, but I don't think he could say no to you.

[voice]

[identity profile] risingspirit.livejournal.com 2011-02-06 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think I'd be able to say no to you if you asked me to make brownies, and I can't cook!

[voice]

[identity profile] risingspirit.livejournal.com 2011-02-06 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
You think I should? It wasn't really necessary with the marines since we had people to cook for us.

[voice]

[identity profile] risingspirit.livejournal.com 2011-02-07 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
W-well I mean... I can make basic stuff. Nothing special. I won't starve, I just won't be making fancy cakes or anything.

[voice]

[identity profile] risingspirit.livejournal.com 2011-02-08 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
Oh you know...

Rice, sandwiches, instant stuff...

[voice]

[identity profile] risingspirit.livejournal.com 2011-02-09 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
The pyramid...?