Fic: Family Portrait, Prompt 22 'Oasis'
#22 - Oasis from 5sentence_fics : also found at ff.net here.
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“I’ve flown, way up in the sky with eagle wings. I’ve flown up there with Tobias. Way up in the clouds. If there’s something better than that, I never found it.”
-Rachel, book 54 The Beginning
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Most teenage girls her age, she supposes, fantasize of getting away from it all at a high class spa on a tropical island or at a picturesque deserted beach with some upper-class stud from their biology class or whatever-and she can’t knock either one of these because once upon a time her own silly dream escape was an endless shopping mall full of killer sales and an endless budget with which to set herself and her nearest and dearest for life; a vast majority of Cassie’s wardrobe got torched at the beginning of this particular reverie every single time, which her best friend probably wouldn’t have appreciated in reality quite as much as in the day dream.
This older, jaded, more sleep deprive version of herself knows a better heavenly escape route from reality than any sketched in her mind or giggled about under the covers at late night sleepovers, however-the clouds offer a freedom unrestricted by parents, homework, gravity or war. There’s something about the push and pull between gravity and the warm California coast thermals that-much like the wet reverse in her dolphin morph-make it impossible to be completely unhappy this far above it all.
As Tobias wings by her on the left in an admittedly impressive feat of hawk aeronautics- showing off in that hesitant, eager way of his she would recognize anywhere- and Marco shoots up to just miss crossing Tobias’s path on the right, Rachel reflects that this particular oasis is indefinitely better because it isn’t just her’s alone before diving after them both.
< Hey monkey boy- tag, you’re it! >
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I know it’s been mocked to Z-Space and back, but there’s a slight shout out to a rather adorable R/T moment from the Animorphs television show here-kudos and internet cookies to anyone who sees it.