A/N: Theme number eight - Letters.
This one's also uber short ;-; I'm sorry.
One last notice, and then I'll stop talking.
Remember theme number six, Holiday? Yeah, well, I drew a picture to go along with it. It's located in my profile. I'm not putting it here because A:LKDSFJ Fanfiction has an awful thing that destroys links in stories ;-;
Moving on.
They were useless, they truly were.
Lan Fan didn't even know why she wrote them. Why she asked Doctor Knox for the pen and paper. How she mustered the strength to paint the elaborate characters on the thin sheet of paper.
She wrote them in Xingese, so only she would be able to read them. And they were messy. Very messy. Her handwriting had never been too particularly good, but writing while she was in pain made the characters almost unreadable. The page was also splattered with ink and cross-outs, making it look disastrous.
It didn't matter anyway. They would never be sent. The doctor probably thought she was keeping a journal or something similar. If he had thought that Lan Fan was writing letters, the idea of it would have been long discarded since he never received something to post. But she had been, and letters stayed stuffed under the mattress. Never read. Never seen. Never sent to the person who it was intended for.
Some of the letters were countless apologies, the same words written a thousand times over the same paper. Others were ones that Lan Fan threw into the trash can the moment she finished. But as time passed the amount of paper wads in the metal bin slowly diminished, and more flat sheets of paper wound up under the mattress. Until the one day that Lan Fan finally penned the words that she had meant to write for a long time without crumpling it into a tiny wad.
The letter hadn't gone under the mattress, like the other ones. Instead, it stayed tucked in the leg strap where she kept her kunai, waiting for the day that she could deliver the letter that she had been meaning to send for so long.
Dear Ling,
I love you.
Words: 305
Additional Notes: None. Actually, there is one. Let me freak out/fangirl for a moment since Lan Fan called him "Ling" in the story. Wait, why am I even fangirling over a story I wrote? This isn't even an additional note anymore. I'll shut up.
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