I. "Pictures of You" by The Cure (3:31PM-3:43PM)

Frey doesn't have a lot of pictures of his life. In fact, he can barely remember ever being in front of or behind a camera at all.

So he's surprised when Mayura gives him exactly four pictures from her own life. There's a picture taken when she was six (She looks so adorable with short hair!), another from a school dance ("Is that Kyô you're dancing with, Mayura?"), a third with her and Alice laughing and shoving each other out of the frame ("Camera hogs, both of you."), and surprisingly, she's rather hesitant to show him the last one.

"It's a really bad one--Mom tried to get a good picture, but I think we turned right when she took it..."

He tugs it out of her hands, then looks at it more thoughtfully.

It's a photo taken from behind the two of them. It's blurry and crooked and absolutely horrendous compared to the other three pictures--but it's obvious that Frey and Mayura are both smiling into the back.

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Note: I wrote the first four drabbles all on the same day in about an hour. I was doing a write-off with Raedyn L., and even though I pretty much lost all energy and life, I have to admit it was fun. I've made some corrections, but otherwise everything is what I wrote in the ten/twenty minutes I got.

I am SERIOUSLY not satisfied with how Frey was handled. Yuu Watase is a fabulous manga-ka, but I just can't believe she hardly let Frey grow in character. He has the most significant losses out of everyone, and yet he hardly got any serious moments. He went home and found everyone else DEAD, his teacher died and didn't even leave a body to bury, and at age 15 he fell in love with his cousin and eventually found her drowned corpse in a lake.

And then he just--reverts back to normal. There aren't even hints if he's faking it or not. "Oh god, everyone's dead! My first love drowned herself because of me! ERIC! ...Hey Alice, how 'bout a kiss?"

So that's why I started leaping into Frey and Mayura's relationship, because Frey needs a GOOD ending more than anyone else. It doesn't even have to be happy, as long as it's not traumatic like most everything else was for him.

I don't own Alice 19th, nor any of its characters.