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A- Alphabet Blocks
Near sat on the plain floor of the playroom, white cloth bunching around him from too-loose pajama's that draped effortlessly over his pale skin. Over the years, he had gathered a rather impressive collection of toys, but now, there were very few around him. Three pyramids made with a meager selection of wooden cubes, and three more blocks on the floor before him.
The pyramids had a rather random arrangement to the odd observer, but Near had stacked them in awkward patterns, the letters painted onto their surface insisting two different names. The first two piles, one to his right and the other to his left, claimed the unfamiliar name of "NATE RIVERS." The name he had spelled made even Near frown at it for a moment, feeling that it did not and could not fit itself inside the safety of the playroom, claimed as his domain over the years, and rarely forfeited to others.
The final pile laid itself before him, offering up only four letters: "NEAR". The name in itself was oddly comforting. Much more so than the layout of the final three cubes that lay before him. The leading block, the one in front, claimed the letter "L" and the other two, the ones struggling to follow the leader professing the letters "M" and "N".
Something was off though, and it had taken even Near, the prodigy, a moment to place it.
Flicking a hand out, Near snatched a block from the floor, his motions upsetting the pile to his left and sending "RIVERS" crashing to the floor, skidding away from each other to break up the name. Taking the W block he had chosen, he lifted L and placed the newly found block beneath it, helping it to reach its goal. Watari, after all, was the one who had always helped L.
Along this line of logic, however…
His other hand grabbed for a block, finding another M block and sending "NATE" tumbling to the floor as he placed the new M beneath the one he had previously used. To anyone else it wouldn't have mattered, but to him, well… He refused to place his newly acquired "Matt" above "Mello" because that wasn't the way it was.
Picking up the N on the floor, he frowned and placed it neatly atop his last remaining pile, apart from the others. That fit, he supposed, He had nobody to rely on like Mello and L had. Only himself. Near only had his name to support him. For some reason, that made him feel oddly sick to his stomach.
He curled on the floor until Linda came in and asked him why he was crying.
End of A
Okay, reviews are appreciated, but what I really need are suggestions for the Letter B. I may or may not use one of the suggestions given, but if I don't use yours, keep trying. If I do choose yours, send my a short prompt beginning with that letter, and any other requests that you have (pairing, a line you want used, a basic plot, etc.)
Please and thank you,
Kitsune Alchemist