Characters: Shinji Hirako, Axel Harkin and Mamma Gkika
Content: Long Night's coming, and someone isn't happy about it.
Setting: 4423 deck
Time: the day before LN
Warnings: Oh, nothing you shouldn't expect.
If there was one celebration Shinji didn't look forward to, it was Long Night. He didn't have anything against it -- not that it'd be offended; it was a friggin' holiday -- but rather what happened during it. He never really celebrated it much during his childhood, but even since two years ago (maybe it was three now) he had no choice but to suffer all through it, whether he liked it or not. Last year, though, he'd had Anthy at his side, so it hadn't been as goddamn awful like the year before that.
There wasn't really a way to describe how he felt. It was like a migraine throughout his entire body that throbbed almost like a fresh bruise, and sometimes it was okay, other times it'd be so unbearable he could barely lift his head. And maybe it was a little naive to hope it wouldn't be as bad this year, but it was just as, if not a little worse this time around.
He was up on the deck feeling like shit because he preferred to be somewhere other than his bed or in Anthy's care feeling like shit. Colvus was more or less uneventful, and he was already tired from that rescue mission a few days before, so there was nothing else he wanted to do than laze around and wait Long Night out before it got too horrible.