fic: peter pan was a story (we'll make it real) - abed/annie

[fluffyfrolicker]

peter pan was a story (we'll make it real) | community | annie/abed | ~150 words | hm, so i went stalking through some past ficathon at ishi-chan where kwritten prompted the most unholy of all the unholy abed/annie prompts, all children grow up someday. except..., so there's this now. this is poetry and maybe it's prose, idek. the lines almost at the end are stolen from doctor who.



all children except one -

annie whispers
into her pillow
into the mirror
into his neck
into thin air
into their closed fists
and
open palms.

all children except one -

has always been either a prayer or a confession of sin

- there will never be a third option.

all children except one -

she thinks while they're
(playing that they're) playing
(Han and Leia and Inspector and Geneva)
and the world begins and ends with
this.

all children except one -

she doesn't like that story,
so she rewrites it.

if she were wendy, she would never -

all children except one -

all children except one -

(how long are you going to stay with me,
the inspectorAbed asks genevaAnnie.

genevaAnnie holds out her hand to her inspectorAbed and says
forever.)

- grow up -

someone tells them, from somewhere afar.

they do not hear the words from the sound of their laughter.