FAKE Double Drabble: Last Minute Repair
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badly_knittedTitle: Last Minute Repair
Fandom: FAKE
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 493: A Stitch In Time at
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drabble_zone.Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Ryo saves Dee from embarrassment.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.
“This,” Ryo told his lover, as he wielded needle and thread to save Dee from a potentially embarrassing situation, “is exactly what the saying means.”
Dee frowned. “What’re you talkin’ about?” As much as he loved his partner, there were times when talking to Ryo was like coming in halfway through a conversation he’d been having with himself.
“This!” Ryo repeated, waving Dee’s suit pants as Dee stood in the locker room in his boxers. “You told me yourself you had a loose thread in these pants. If you’d done something about it right then, or given them to me to do something, the seam at the back wouldn’t have started coming unravelled, and you wouldn’t have been in danger of showing up at the courthouse with a gaping hole in the back of your pants!”
“Okay, yeah, sure, but what sayin’?”
“What?”
“You said this is what the saying means, and I still don’t know what the hell you’re talkin’ about!”
Ryo sighed, knotting the thread as he finished the temporary repair. “A stitch in time saves nine! It would’ve only needed a couple of stitches to fix if you hadn’t left it! I’ll re-do the entire seam tonight.”
The End
Dee frowned. “What’re you talkin’ about?” As much as he loved his partner, there were times when talking to Ryo was like coming in halfway through a conversation he’d been having with himself.
“This!” Ryo repeated, waving Dee’s suit pants as Dee stood in the locker room in his boxers. “You told me yourself you had a loose thread in these pants. If you’d done something about it right then, or given them to me to do something, the seam at the back wouldn’t have started coming unravelled, and you wouldn’t have been in danger of showing up at the courthouse with a gaping hole in the back of your pants!”
“Okay, yeah, sure, but what sayin’?”
“What?”
“You said this is what the saying means, and I still don’t know what the hell you’re talkin’ about!”
Ryo sighed, knotting the thread as he finished the temporary repair. “A stitch in time saves nine! It would’ve only needed a couple of stitches to fix if you hadn’t left it! I’ll re-do the entire seam tonight.”
The End
