FAKE Triple Drabble: Wise Decision
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badly_knittedTitle: Wise Decision
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 448: In The Dark at
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drabble_zone.Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Always listen to your instincts; it might save your life.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.
The dark doesn’t bother Dee, it never has, not even when he’d been very young, because he’d always known Mother was close, and she meant safety, warmth, comfort, and love. He’d known nothing could really harm him as long as Mother was there, known she’d always protect him, and all her other charges.
She’d always told him darkness was simply the lack of light, that there was nothing in the dark that wasn’t also there in the light, and he’d accepted her words with the uncomplicated faith of a child, certain she’d never lie to him. He still believes that what Mother told him is essentially true, that in most places, the darkness is nothing to be feared, but…
What’s there in the dark is also there in the light, that’s true, but some things only have power in the dark. During daylight, they’re harmless, insubstantial as mist, but when the light is gone, their form becomes clearer.
Ghosts exist, he’s seen them, experienced the sudden drop in temperature that precedes their presence, and while he’s willing to accept that some are essentially harmless, he’s also painfully aware that others are just plain malevolent.
Ryo doesn’t believe in ghosts, because he’s never seen one, and there are times Dee envies his lover’s certainty that there’s no such thing. He wishes he didn’t know what he knows, because in this respect, ignorance is bliss, but right now he’s glad he has a healthy respect and awareness of the supernatural. Some places are evil.
“Let’s not stop here,” he’d told Ryo as they’d pulled into the forecourt of a motel. “Somethin’ about this place creeps me out. Gotta be someplace better.”
This morning, in their motel room, they’d learned three people had been murdered overnight at the other place.
“Could’ve been us.”
The End
She’d always told him darkness was simply the lack of light, that there was nothing in the dark that wasn’t also there in the light, and he’d accepted her words with the uncomplicated faith of a child, certain she’d never lie to him. He still believes that what Mother told him is essentially true, that in most places, the darkness is nothing to be feared, but…
What’s there in the dark is also there in the light, that’s true, but some things only have power in the dark. During daylight, they’re harmless, insubstantial as mist, but when the light is gone, their form becomes clearer.
Ghosts exist, he’s seen them, experienced the sudden drop in temperature that precedes their presence, and while he’s willing to accept that some are essentially harmless, he’s also painfully aware that others are just plain malevolent.
Ryo doesn’t believe in ghosts, because he’s never seen one, and there are times Dee envies his lover’s certainty that there’s no such thing. He wishes he didn’t know what he knows, because in this respect, ignorance is bliss, but right now he’s glad he has a healthy respect and awareness of the supernatural. Some places are evil.
“Let’s not stop here,” he’d told Ryo as they’d pulled into the forecourt of a motel. “Somethin’ about this place creeps me out. Gotta be someplace better.”
This morning, in their motel room, they’d learned three people had been murdered overnight at the other place.
“Could’ve been us.”
The End
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Date: 2025-05-04 08:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-05-04 08:57 pm (UTC)Thank you!