Fandoms 37 and 38: Jet Grind Radio, Revolutionary Girl Utena
[Title] Time Out
[Fandom] Jet Grind Radio
[Rating] G
[Notes/Summary] Tab tells Mew how the GGs found the Garage.
"So how'd you find this place?" Mew said, crouching down to see if the pizza was done. "I mean... it's pretty neat for a hide-out."
"Hey. It's a headquarters, not a hide-out," said Tab. "We're not criminals, we're - uh - freedom fighters or something."
"Controversial statement there, Tabster," Mew said, laughing. "No, but seriously? You just get lucky?"
"Much as I'd like to kid you I can divine great locations with the power of my mind, no. Gum and I knew this place from way back when. So is that pizza done yet?"
"Nah, cheese hasn't melted. How come you guys already knew it? Were you living in it?"
"We just knew it," Tab said, shoving his hands in his pocket and leaning back against the table. "I think we met there, actually. She used to come here 'cause it meant not getting into fights with people, and I used to come as a break from the shouting. You know? 'S'far as I understand it, she used to break in through one of the windows - she got the boards off, it was all shut up then - and sit with her tape deck and listen to music or whatever. And I used to lurk in the yard with a book. It was nice when the weather was warm."
"Yeah, I bet it was," Mew said. "And you're telling me you both never knew the other one was here?"
"I think for about half a year we missed each other. She used to head out here after school, whereas I'd be more likely to do it on weekends. Then one time during the summer break we ran into each other. She hit me."
"Niiice." Mew giggled.
"Hey, I wouldn't want to confound your expectations." Tab smirked. "We figured no one wanted it so we started hanging out there together. Then when Beat showed up and was all 'let's form a gang', we were all 'I think we can help with that'."
"Don't it bother you, though?" Mew bit her lip, frowning. "I mean... this place used to be like a secret place, right? A place where you could drop out of life for a bit. Now you've got all us lot in it."
"Nah, I think it just means life's better these days," Tab said, straightening his hat. "And besides, if you do piss me off, I can go up onto the roof and paint it black or whatever."
"And Gum?"
"She's the kind who'll always be pissed off by someone."
"Yeah, I... guess that's true."
"Anyway, it seems fitting." Tab sauntered over to the oven, knelt down to check the pizza again. "I mean, rudies are what they are 'cause they want to drop out of life. It's not like you're all proto-yuppies with trust funds cluttering up my quiet place."
"I should think not," Mew said. "So... is it done yet?"
[Title] View From Inside
[Fandom] Revolutionary Girl Utena (anime)
[Rating] G
[Notes/Summary] Set post-series. Miki writes a letter to Anthy.
Dear Anthy
I don't know really why I am writing this letter, or where I am going to send it. I wish you had left me an address.
Miki stopped, resting his chin on his hand, and stared at his own handwriting. Ink was already smudging across his fingers, as if he weren't used to letter-writing.
I hope that you are all right and that whatever you are doing now is going well. That sounded as if she had told him what she was doing and he had just forgotten, and he felt terrible about writing something that came across that way, but he was sure that she hadn't told him. For one thing, she hadn't spoken to him before she left. He had waited for her under the white archways, and she hadn't arrived, and then, in the end, he had asked, and been told that she had gone away. Her room had been bare, nothing but pale walls and light. Although he wasn't completely sure that he had been looking in the right place. He wasn't sure about a lot of things.
It seems strange to me that out of all of us, you are the one who has left school - left all of it. I keep thinking that I evidently didn't know you as well as I thought. That doesn't make me sad, though. I feel pleased that there are things I don't know about you, that you are so much more than the person you appeared to be.
Outside, he could just hear the faint shouts of the first-years' basketball game in progress; beyond that, the hum of a lesson somewhere else. No piano music.
Anthy hadn't spoken to him before she left, but perhaps in the run-up to her disappearance, she had given him some hint? But if that was the case, why wouldn't he remember? Something like that would probably stick in your mind, would assume a new and shocking significance. That was how things were meant to work.
Sometimes I
Sometimes I wish
But then he laid his pen down again. He didn't really like lying, especially not to friends.
On the windowsill a vase of white roses was slowly releasing petals, each one spiralling round to land on the edge of the desk, and Miki watched them, and for a moment he thought that he could remember everything -
- but he didn't know what it was that he was remembering.
In the end he crossed out sometimes I wish, and wrote instead If you ever come back here, I would love to see you. Your friend, Miki Kaoru. Then he folded the letter, and sealed it, and just wrote Anthy Himemiya across the front. Perhaps it would reach her. Things like that happened, sometimes.
A shadow rushed across the back wall, out of the corner of his eye, and he heard a girl calling, laughing.
Do you know what really happened? Do you know? Do you know?
[Fandom] Jet Grind Radio
[Rating] G
[Notes/Summary] Tab tells Mew how the GGs found the Garage.
"So how'd you find this place?" Mew said, crouching down to see if the pizza was done. "I mean... it's pretty neat for a hide-out."
"Hey. It's a headquarters, not a hide-out," said Tab. "We're not criminals, we're - uh - freedom fighters or something."
"Controversial statement there, Tabster," Mew said, laughing. "No, but seriously? You just get lucky?"
"Much as I'd like to kid you I can divine great locations with the power of my mind, no. Gum and I knew this place from way back when. So is that pizza done yet?"
"Nah, cheese hasn't melted. How come you guys already knew it? Were you living in it?"
"We just knew it," Tab said, shoving his hands in his pocket and leaning back against the table. "I think we met there, actually. She used to come here 'cause it meant not getting into fights with people, and I used to come as a break from the shouting. You know? 'S'far as I understand it, she used to break in through one of the windows - she got the boards off, it was all shut up then - and sit with her tape deck and listen to music or whatever. And I used to lurk in the yard with a book. It was nice when the weather was warm."
"Yeah, I bet it was," Mew said. "And you're telling me you both never knew the other one was here?"
"I think for about half a year we missed each other. She used to head out here after school, whereas I'd be more likely to do it on weekends. Then one time during the summer break we ran into each other. She hit me."
"Niiice." Mew giggled.
"Hey, I wouldn't want to confound your expectations." Tab smirked. "We figured no one wanted it so we started hanging out there together. Then when Beat showed up and was all 'let's form a gang', we were all 'I think we can help with that'."
"Don't it bother you, though?" Mew bit her lip, frowning. "I mean... this place used to be like a secret place, right? A place where you could drop out of life for a bit. Now you've got all us lot in it."
"Nah, I think it just means life's better these days," Tab said, straightening his hat. "And besides, if you do piss me off, I can go up onto the roof and paint it black or whatever."
"And Gum?"
"She's the kind who'll always be pissed off by someone."
"Yeah, I... guess that's true."
"Anyway, it seems fitting." Tab sauntered over to the oven, knelt down to check the pizza again. "I mean, rudies are what they are 'cause they want to drop out of life. It's not like you're all proto-yuppies with trust funds cluttering up my quiet place."
"I should think not," Mew said. "So... is it done yet?"
[Title] View From Inside
[Fandom] Revolutionary Girl Utena (anime)
[Rating] G
[Notes/Summary] Set post-series. Miki writes a letter to Anthy.
Dear Anthy
I don't know really why I am writing this letter, or where I am going to send it. I wish you had left me an address.
Miki stopped, resting his chin on his hand, and stared at his own handwriting. Ink was already smudging across his fingers, as if he weren't used to letter-writing.
I hope that you are all right and that whatever you are doing now is going well. That sounded as if she had told him what she was doing and he had just forgotten, and he felt terrible about writing something that came across that way, but he was sure that she hadn't told him. For one thing, she hadn't spoken to him before she left. He had waited for her under the white archways, and she hadn't arrived, and then, in the end, he had asked, and been told that she had gone away. Her room had been bare, nothing but pale walls and light. Although he wasn't completely sure that he had been looking in the right place. He wasn't sure about a lot of things.
It seems strange to me that out of all of us, you are the one who has left school - left all of it. I keep thinking that I evidently didn't know you as well as I thought. That doesn't make me sad, though. I feel pleased that there are things I don't know about you, that you are so much more than the person you appeared to be.
Outside, he could just hear the faint shouts of the first-years' basketball game in progress; beyond that, the hum of a lesson somewhere else. No piano music.
Anthy hadn't spoken to him before she left, but perhaps in the run-up to her disappearance, she had given him some hint? But if that was the case, why wouldn't he remember? Something like that would probably stick in your mind, would assume a new and shocking significance. That was how things were meant to work.
Sometimes I
Sometimes I wish
But then he laid his pen down again. He didn't really like lying, especially not to friends.
On the windowsill a vase of white roses was slowly releasing petals, each one spiralling round to land on the edge of the desk, and Miki watched them, and for a moment he thought that he could remember everything -
- but he didn't know what it was that he was remembering.
In the end he crossed out sometimes I wish, and wrote instead If you ever come back here, I would love to see you. Your friend, Miki Kaoru. Then he folded the letter, and sealed it, and just wrote Anthy Himemiya across the front. Perhaps it would reach her. Things like that happened, sometimes.
A shadow rushed across the back wall, out of the corner of his eye, and he heard a girl calling, laughing.
Do you know what really happened? Do you know? Do you know?