Title: Sugar
Fandom: TB/X
Characters/Pairings: Hokuto, Karen
Length: 120 words
Notes: Gift for
cyrulean She took her tea sweet. She would add loads and loads of sugar, and sometimes milk and honey too. Seishirou liked to tease her about it. Sugar with tea, he called it.
She hated the bitter taste of traditionnal Japanese tea which her grandma prepared. Subaru would drink it, of course, but she’d never succeeded in getting him to admit whether he liked it or not.
“What news of Subaru-kun?” Karen asked gently, after she’d finished mixing sugar in hot water.
Hokuto looked up and smiled mechanicaly. “Nothing yet, but I’m close, I can feel it.”
Karen nodded slightly, sympathy in her eyes.
Hokuto brought the cup to her lips. It was funny, really. So much sugar, and it still tasted of tears.