can't be

[butterflylikeme]

Date: February 2006
Characters: Layla Miller, Bill Kramer
Summary: Grocery store madness.
Status: In progress
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Layla browsed the fruit and veggies, carefully selecting some nectarines and some strawberries. Fruit wasn't really good yet, but she liked to pretend it was nice. If not it could rot in her fruit bowl anyway.

Even though I'

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[asgardianknight]

Billy looked over the small shopping list Zach had given him carefully, following the directions to the market to the t. It had been the first time the older man had trusted him with doing something alone, so the feeling was exhilarating, to finally get out of that apartment. He was going over the list once more when he heard a voice call out to him.

Turning his head around quickly, he saw a young girl with blonde-ish hair standing not too far off. Indeed, she was looking at him, waving excitedly like meeting him was like meeting the goddamned pope. He waved tentatively back, unsure.

[butterflylikeme]

Layla approached him real slow, wiping her hands on her pants, bag of fruit suspended in one hand.

"You don't remember?" she asked slowly, cocking her head--seeing his amnesia. It made her sad to see him this way. Pathetic and alone.

Like her.

[asgardianknight]

"I can't say I do," Billy told the woman, embarassed. "Can't remember anything past last month." Smooth, Kramer.

[butterflylikeme]

She shook her head with a sad expression fixed, other arm darting out to stroke his in a soothing way.

"That's damn awful." What could she tell him? Her brother and he couldn't even remember his name? "I'm Layla. You can call me Butterfly."

A beat.

"Or sis'ter."

[asgardianknight]

Billy stared at the girl, shocked. He had a sister? It couldn't be. Wouldn't he have felt something when he met her? He tried to awaken some foggy memory, but couldn't. "I'm...sorry," Billy said lowly. "I honestly don't remember you."