Disclaimer: Persona 3 isn't mine. I just like playing in ATLUS' sandbox.

Warning: All drabbles contain spoilers through 1/31.

close your eyes

Some of the kids are good at hiding, but Takaya is always easy to find - nine times out of ten, he's sleeping.

In bed, tangled up with Chidori and Jin, or sprawled all over the sticky-plastic couches, or head pillowed on his arms at the breakfast table; Takaya sleeps enough for three people, which is fortunate, because the other two often can't sleep at all.

But he's always awake when midnight slips into something else - easing the transition with a word, a hug, and, sometimes, jagged fragments of lullaby for two children raised too wild to know the difference.