DRABBLE: Developing (FAKE: Aunt Elena, G)

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Title: Developing
Author: mechaieh
Fandom: FAKE
Characters: Ryo thinking about his Aunt Elena
Rating: G
Word count: 100 words
Notes: Takes place after the series. Direct references to the Ryo "side story" published a couple years ago as extra chapters in the Japanese reissues (scanlations here - listed as "FAKE extra ch 4" and "ch 5").


Ryo and his Aunt Elena seldom talk about the summer he was eighteen, nor do they ever revisit the book of photographs she published as a result of their stay at the lake, in spite of its popular reception. But as an adult, Ryo now truly realizes how lonely she must have been in that isolated vale, her love of her work notwithstanding -- and how worried she must have been for him, especially after Charlotte Owen disappeared.

As Dee and Bikky scurry to do her bidding, Ryo smiles: Aunt Elena is living proof that not everyone he loves is doomed.