FAKE Double Drabble: Grumpy Neighbour

May 14, 2022 18:52

Title: Grumpy Neighbour
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo, Melinda.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Dee doesn’t much like Ryo’s neighbour.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Crotchety’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.

Dee considered Ryo’s neighbour a bad-tempered, crotchety old battle-axe. She was almost as bad as Nurse Emiry, grumbling and grumping, complaining about everyone and everything, but for some unknown reason, Ryo seemed fond of her.

“She’s old and alone, her husband passed away nearly ten years ago, and her kids never visit,” Ryo explained.

“I don’t blame them. If I had her for a mother, I wouldn’t visit either.”

“Dee! How can you say that? Do you have any idea how awful it is to have no one? At least you’ve always had Mother and the other kids at the orphanage. Melinda raised two children, did the best she could for them, but neither one even sent her a card on her birthday.”

“Bet you did though.”

“Yes. I sent her a card, flowers, her favourite chocolates, and I invited her for dinner. She said I’d made her day, but it was least I could do. She’s always willing to watch Bikky when I have to work late, and she fusses over me when I’m sick or injured almost as much as you do. I think she misses having someone to care for.”

Dee sighed. “I guess maybe she’s okay.”

The End

fic, fake fic, ryo maclean, dee laytner, other character/s, fake, drabble, fic: pg

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