FAKE Double Drabble: No Big Deal
Title: No Big Deal
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Dee.
Rating: PG
Setting: Before the manga.
Summary: Graduating from high school doesn’t feel like a big deal to Dee.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Graduation’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble and a half, 250 words.
Graduation should have felt like a bigger deal, but for Dee it just felt like a formality, to be endured so he could move forward. Most of his classmates, the ones who hadn’t already flunked out, were talking excitedly about going off to college, or starting apprenticeships. A few were taking a year off to work and save money, or even to travel, before beginning the next stage of their education.
Dee had night classes lined up, and had already started a job in construction; it would help pay his way while he got the qualifications he’d need in order to be accepted into the police academy.
That was his next goal, juggling work and studying; his high school graduation was merely something to get through as quickly and painlessly as possible. He would have skipped the ceremony; it didn’t feel all that important to him. Most people got a high school diploma, and he knew they’d mail it to him if he didn’t show up, but he didn’t want to disappoint Mother. He knew she was looking forward to seeing him in his cap and gown, accepting his diploma, so he’d be there even though it felt like a waste of time that would have been better spent studying, or taking an extra shift at the building site.
The only graduation ceremony that mattered to Dee was the one he hoped would see him leaving the police academy as a rookie cop. That achievement would be worthy of celebration.
The End
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Dee.
Rating: PG
Setting: Before the manga.
Summary: Graduating from high school doesn’t feel like a big deal to Dee.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Graduation’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble and a half, 250 words.
Graduation should have felt like a bigger deal, but for Dee it just felt like a formality, to be endured so he could move forward. Most of his classmates, the ones who hadn’t already flunked out, were talking excitedly about going off to college, or starting apprenticeships. A few were taking a year off to work and save money, or even to travel, before beginning the next stage of their education.
Dee had night classes lined up, and had already started a job in construction; it would help pay his way while he got the qualifications he’d need in order to be accepted into the police academy.
That was his next goal, juggling work and studying; his high school graduation was merely something to get through as quickly and painlessly as possible. He would have skipped the ceremony; it didn’t feel all that important to him. Most people got a high school diploma, and he knew they’d mail it to him if he didn’t show up, but he didn’t want to disappoint Mother. He knew she was looking forward to seeing him in his cap and gown, accepting his diploma, so he’d be there even though it felt like a waste of time that would have been better spent studying, or taking an extra shift at the building site.
The only graduation ceremony that mattered to Dee was the one he hoped would see him leaving the police academy as a rookie cop. That achievement would be worthy of celebration.
The End