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They're in the kitchen, eating pancakes. Her brother and her brother's friend are cooking and smiling and arguing about the correct method to cook while swirling pans to see who can make the largest. Her father is sitting at the kitchen table, folding his and adding gracious amount of ice-cream and maple syrup.

She laughs and adds that she thought he wasn't going to eat stuff that was bad for him anymore while she does the same. Her brother tells their father not to listen to hypocritical monsters because, after all, it's Saturday and what happens on Saturday doesn't really count in the grand scheme of things.

Beside her, Syaoran's eats happily and comments that their pancakes are much better than the ones Meiling use to try and cook for him sometimes (though, he adds in that he was lucky to have her cook for him though she suspects that only because he's worried what her father will think of him).

Her father smiles and says that he always thought Sakura would cook pancakes for breakfast like her mother use to. Her brother laughs and says that he wouldn't touch anything she made with a six-foot pole and she throws the icy bit of the ice-cream at him.

Syaoran says he would happily eat anything she ma—

And she hates that she has wakes up from her dreamtime fairytale and remembers what her life is (—broken feathers, lost memories, tears in everything—) and she'd give anything for a simple life, even one without a castle and a crown.

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NOTES:

1. – I bet TRC!Sakura wishes she had CCS!Sakura's life, don't you think? Tomoyo was there but she didn't have any real purpose, so she got cut. Yes, I hate myself. Also, I know CCS!Sakura bakes pancakes in that weird... machine thing, but no. In a pan is SO MUCH FUNNIER. Kind of based off pancake making adventures of my family, except we mostly have pancakes for dinner.
2. - Practice for 'setting the scene'. Hope the atmosphere gets across. Also, practice for giving locations of people without resorting to hard facts. (Touya, Yukito in the kitchen, Sakura, Syaoran and Fujitaka at in the adjoining dining room... like room. I can't quite remember the setout of the Kinomoto household.)

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