badly_knitted | FAKE Triple Drabble: Educational (Reply)

Title: Educational
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo, OCs
Rating: G
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Vacationing in England is proving quite educational.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Frieze’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.

Pre-Ryo, Dee wouldn’t have been caught dead touring a stately home. Then again, pre-Ryo he never would have thought of travelling to England of all places for a vacation, and yet here he was, not only in England, but wandering around some historical manor house, looking at old paintings and antique furniture, and… It was actually pretty cool.

The paintings were nothing he’d ever want hanging on his walls back home, and the furniture was huge and heavy, elaborately carved, and mostly ugly, but learning about how people, the wealthy ones anyway, used to live a few centuries ago was an eye-opener. He felt bad for them, never knowing electric light, central heating, and indoor plumbing, but he supposed you couldn’t miss things that hadn’t been invented yet.

The tour guide was entertaining as well as informative, and there were only six tourists in the party, the other four being two British couples; Dee and Ryo were being treated practically like celebrities just because they were Americans.

“I like that,” Dee said suddenly as they entered another room, pointing up at a decorative painted band that ran around the walls near the ceiling, an endless picture of birds and flowers, the colours bright and eye-catching. “The mural thing, don’t what it’s called.”

“Frieze,” said the tour guide.

Dee stopped dead, arm up. “What? Why? What did I do?”

Beside him, Ryo was practically doubled up laughing. “No, doofus,” he finally gasped out. “The painting’s called a frieze. Different spelling.”

“Oh.” Dee blushed faintly, lowering his arm, and grinning sheepishly. “Fine, I’m a dumbass, but so was whoever invented the English language. It’s confusin’, there’s way too many words with multiple meanings. I’m a cop; someone says ‘freeze’, that’s not somethin’ I’m gonna ignore.”

Ryo grinned. “I’ll bear that in mind.”

The End