FAKE Double Drabble: Never Coming Back

[badly_knitted]

 


Title: Never Coming Back
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 447: Gone at drabble_zone.
Setting: Before the manga.
Summary: Ryo should have been looking forward to Christmas with his family, but instead they were gone.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
 
 

It seemed to Ryo as if one minute he’d been eagerly awaiting his parents’ return home from their buying trip, just in time to celebrate Christmas together as a family, and the next they were gone, never coming home again. Just like that, the bottom had fallen out of his world.

 
How could they be gone? He’d only spoken to them on the phone a couple of days ago, happily discussing Christmas plans, when to expect them home, and whether they needed to pick anything up on the way. Ryo had wanted to get a taxi out to the airport to meet them, but his parents had said there was no point. Holiday traffic would make the journey a nightmare, and besides, he’d be in school when their plane was due to land. They didn’t want him interrupting his studies.

 
A chill ran down his spine as he realised he’d probably been chatting with his friends around the time his parents were dying in a hail of bullets. He hadn’t known, COULDN’T have known, but he felt guilty all the same. How could he have been so happy while they were suffering?

 
His life would never be the same again.
 

 
The End
 



 
 
 

Comments

[mrs_sweetpeach]

Ryo's parents were murdered?!? Why? Who?

[badly_knitted]

Yes, it's canon. They were art dealers, coming back from a buying trip, and picked up the wrong package at customs or something and were murdered for it. Ryo was 18 at the time, he never got to see them again. Mob boss Leo Grant ordered the hit, but they hit the wrong people, all because of the package mix-up. Then the police decided Ryo's parents were drug smugglers and treated their murder like they got what they deserved, and most of Ryo's family thought the police were probably right, and didn't want anything to do with Ryo. The only one who cared at all was Ryo's aunt Elena, his dad's younger sister. She and her husband took Ryo in and helped him get back on his feet.

Thank you!