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Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Title: Living It
Characters: Jim Cook, Karen
Word Count: 259||Status: One-shot
Genre: Spiritual||Rated: G
Challenge: 31halloween: prompt #6, pagan
Summary: [one-shot, 31halloween, prompt #6, pagan, Jim & Karen] When it's the heart of all you do, you don't need to think about something.
His fingers brushed across the rocks with a reverence many reserved for the most holy books of their faiths. A faint smile touched his lips as he broke open a stone to see the fossil preserved within, almost perfect save for a few flecks here and there. Dino-boy would like this one. He'd have to make certain Kenzan saw it.
Jim leaned back, taking a few moments to rest. Uncovering fossils took a lot out of a person. Secrets of Mother Earth, hidden until someone could find the time and the inclination to uncover them, to meet their distant cousins of the past. Cousins perhaps not by blood or flesh but by having lived on the same planet, breathed the same air, drank the same waters. They were all kin in one way or another, weren't they?
Not everyone would agree, but Jim saw no reason to argue about it. What was, was. No need to get into a fuss over it.
He drank a sip or two of water, offering some to Karen, which the crocodile accepted generously. How could anyone claim he wasn't kin to her?
All part of the world, all part of the cycles that had existed since the dawn of time. Maybe even before then. He believed that in much the same way he believed he walked upright and breathed oxygen.
People fought too much, he thought, over things they didn't need to fight about. He reached over to rub Karen's scales. Maybe one day they'd figure it out. Or so he hoped.
The End
Note: I originally posted this back in October 2012, but now am reposting these ficlets separately instead of as a collection, in order to have each listed under their proper character and rating.