WHO: Not-kid-anymore Bruno and suddenly-shorter-than-him-again Franziska
WHERE: Mmmmmmmoonybase
WHEN: Early Saturday morning following kidplot
WARNINGS: Why would you even
SUMMARY: Bruno wakes up as a grown-up? robot again with fuzzy-but-passable memories of what's gone on for the last week. Including the most important thing.
FORMAT: far more
(
Read more... )
Her world had been thrown into chaos and disarray in about as much time as it took for a person to blink, and there was nothing she could do. She wasn't in control any more, and she needed to be in control. And so she was studying. Knowledge was power, the more you knew the more you could orchestrate things to your favor, the more knowledge you gained and the more things would go your way. Besides, you didn't feel quite so lonely when you were concentrating, and everything had changed so much that sometimes Franziska did feel very lonely.
She had been pushing herself hard, burning the midnight oil, but no matter how indomitable one's will might be, there was only so much that the body could take, particularly the body of a teen. And so, after having stayed up all night again, Franziska had slipped, and had fallen asleep on her textbook.
She didn't hear him come in.
Reply
Very carefully, Bruno kneeled down and slowly slid the book out from under Franziska's head and set it on a nearby coffee table. Then he stepped to the side to pick up a lap blanket from thee armrest of the couch and returned to lay it very gently over her, before sitting down on the coffee table himself next to her book.
Reply
Reply
"Sorry," he said in an instinctual early-morning sort of hush, "I didn't mean to wake you up."
Reply
"Hmph, I..." Then her voice trailed off, and she blinked a few times and rubbed her eyes a little. "B-Bruno?"
Reply
"Yep." He lifted one arm from leaning on the edge of the coffee table and cocked his hand to one side in a dorky little wave. "Is it a little bit late to say 'welcome home'?"
Reply
Reply
For a moment he actually stiffened slightly with bewilderment while his hands hung awkwardly in midair. But soon enough his posture settled again and he gently moved to hug her back, although he was still giving a faintly concerned side-eye to the back of her head in the corner of his vision.
"Franziska?"
Reply
"Hmph," she said, her voice muffled a little by his shirt, "clearly I'm not allowed to go anywhere' it appears that nobody here can manage themselves without me."
Reply
"It definitely hasn't been the same around here, at least," he said. He hesitated for a moment himself before going on. "... Sorry things were a little, uh... complicated, when you got back."
Reply
Reply
But something in what she said seemed to derail him mid-thought and a hint of a look like apprehension crossed his face. 'Forgotten...'
That's right, Franziska would want to hear if he had remembered anything new from before his amnesia while she was gone. Bruno had never really given serious thought to how much he wanted to tell Franziska about his revelation if she ever came back, if anything. Ruka was one thing, she was someone from his own world and she herself had experienced more unnatural stuff even back there than Bruno ever did, but... Franziska was a normal person pulled from a normal life.
... Well, relatively speaking, anyway.
Reply
Leave a comment