>_> i *was* going to sleep...
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onepieceyaoi100Title: Cure
Rating: G
Words: 300
Pairing: Vaguely Chopper --> Zoro
Comments: I can hear Bialy laughing now. ::snickers::
I can't even completely remember what it was like. That change, that being born again. Being pushed into an entirely new world. With a new comprehension of the world, with different eyes and ears. Everything was so different -- I was so different. But perhaps most striking about that change... was the pain.
Pain was not something I didn't know before the change. I was born into pain. But with humanity came so many new forms of pain. Loneliness. Rejection. Desperation. Loss. Each a new ache to discover until it was dull in my chest, all the time. Formless and lingering. Doctorinu said that there was no medicine for such a pain. Well, except alcohol but I didn't care much for her cure.
She was wrong though. Because with each day it fades just a little bit. When Usopp tells me stories or Luffy makes funny faces or Sanji makes cookies. Like ice melting inside me.
And sometimes when Zoro sleeps on deck, he doesn't seem to mind if I curl up in the curve of his arm. Sometimes he'll carry me on his shoulders when I can't keep up with everyone else or I can't see over tall grass. Times like that, I forget that pain is there at all. There it's safe and warm and I know nothing can hurt me.
He tells me though that I have to be strong. I have to be a man.
He's the strongest person I know. He doesn't let anything hurt him. He doesn't let himself have that pain.
Each day, with that pain melting away, I feel a little stronger. I'm determined to be strong like he wants me to be, like the rest of them are. And I think maybe with their help, when that pain is gone, I will be.
Rating: G
Words: 300
Pairing: Vaguely Chopper --> Zoro
Comments: I can hear Bialy laughing now. ::snickers::
I can't even completely remember what it was like. That change, that being born again. Being pushed into an entirely new world. With a new comprehension of the world, with different eyes and ears. Everything was so different -- I was so different. But perhaps most striking about that change... was the pain.
Pain was not something I didn't know before the change. I was born into pain. But with humanity came so many new forms of pain. Loneliness. Rejection. Desperation. Loss. Each a new ache to discover until it was dull in my chest, all the time. Formless and lingering. Doctorinu said that there was no medicine for such a pain. Well, except alcohol but I didn't care much for her cure.
She was wrong though. Because with each day it fades just a little bit. When Usopp tells me stories or Luffy makes funny faces or Sanji makes cookies. Like ice melting inside me.
And sometimes when Zoro sleeps on deck, he doesn't seem to mind if I curl up in the curve of his arm. Sometimes he'll carry me on his shoulders when I can't keep up with everyone else or I can't see over tall grass. Times like that, I forget that pain is there at all. There it's safe and warm and I know nothing can hurt me.
He tells me though that I have to be strong. I have to be a man.
He's the strongest person I know. He doesn't let anything hurt him. He doesn't let himself have that pain.
Each day, with that pain melting away, I feel a little stronger. I'm determined to be strong like he wants me to be, like the rest of them are. And I think maybe with their help, when that pain is gone, I will be.
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*CHEERS*
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Date: 2004-05-25 04:28 am (UTC)Great Fic!
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