Sisters

"Lisa-chan?"

"What is it, Nanao-chan?"

"Could we be sisters?"

Silence.

"Lisa-chan?"

Lisa's book slips from her nerveless fingers to the floor. Seconds later, it is back in her lap again, placed there by the knee-high girl gazing up at her through wire-framed glasses.

She summons a smile for her, and banishes that terrible night in the Rukongai from her thoughts.

"Of course, little onee-chan," she says with a grin that deepens when Nanao's face lights up with honest joy.

Because if Nanao needed someone to be her sister, then come hell or high water, she would be.

For the memory of a girl lost to the Rukongai ten years before.

A/N—Lisa has so little backstory in the anime/manga, so I took liberties :D

Soundtrack included: Houki Boshi, Life is Like a Boat, and We. I don't own anything you can recognize.