[itp: we can has backdated fathers day emo nao?]

[count_onme]

[In an armchair in the library, there is a young French boy looking as if he's deeply absorbed in a very large book. Except for the part where the book is upside down. And he seems to have failed to notice this for at least the last hour.]

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[ooc: open forever, for whoever :eta: spoiler warning for the ending of Gankutsuou in the threads]

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[songtoallmy]

[hand on her hip]

Earth to Albert?

[count_onme]

[Adfjshdjkhs fumbling with the book which is threatening to fall out of his hands]

Eu-Eugenie!

[songtoallmy]

You've been sitting like that for at least the past half hour. What's gotten into you?

[count_onme]

Has it only been that long? It felt longer...

[songtoallmy]

It certainly could've been longer than that.

[sits down on an ottoman next to him]

Well?

[count_onme]

It's nothing. I've just been... thinking about some things, that's all.

[songtoallmy]

You'll get wrinkles if you do it too much.

... about what?

[count_onme]

... It's not really anything particularly important. I was just-- being nostalgic.

[songtoallmy]

What were you thinking about?

[count_onme]

... Home. Father. Previous Father's Days. ... You know. Stuff.

[songtoallmy]

[chews on her bottom lip and nods, getting quiet]

... It had slipped my mind, what today was.

[count_onme]

Lucky.

[songtoallmy]

I suppose I'm still determined to forget either of them ever existed.

[count_onme]

Eugenie...

[songtoallmy]

[shakes her head]

Your father was a great man.

[count_onme]

[Sighs]

He was. It's just...