THE PERFECT CRIME: A GHOST HUNT DRABBLE COLLECTION PRESENTS:
In a Perfect World
Prompt: In a perfect world –you would have never left us.
Fandom: Ghost Hunt; Mai x Naru x Gene
A bright smile, eyes that saw the world in the most positive of visions, and those hands hardened by the world –yet holding ours so kind.
Will you hold our hands like that now? Will you take us by those hands into a darken corner of the kitchen just so the rest of our family wouldn't see you cry when we announced we would be staying in Japan? We still remember each hand that held us into that tight group hug, and the tears that streaked down your face and onto our shoulders.
We still remember.
How out of nowhere two broken halves became whole –and it was because of you. You who took us as broken halves and accepted us. You who found the sleeping half under the water, you who held us close when the nightmares returned, you who loved not one half or another –as all other do –but saw and loved the whole as well as the individual parts.
We remember your smile when we showed you our new home –our as in the three of us –all together in the same bed.
We remember even further back to the tears you shed when you told us you could not choose between the two of us. And the surprise on your face when you arrived at a date for all three of us –one you didn't even know was going to happen. The sun on that day, the spring breeze, and the store-bought bento for our picnic, as to avoid giving you food poisoning.
We remember the taste of your tea from the first time we had it, one of us can still feel the warmth it brought and the other can remembering the ghosting of its taste.
We can still remember all of the cases that followed our stay in Japan. And even the case we did in the UK for our parents.
We remember how difficult it was to pick just the right engagement ring for you. You were from a Shinto family –and we grew up in an academic non-denomination family –so we had to decide what the wedding would be like? We had wondered when we would get the guts to ask you –after all it is technically impossible to marry both of us legally. Which of our names would be placed next to you?
We stare down at our engagement rings. We designed them to both be halves of a single image: infinity, encrusted in specks of onyx and amber on a silver canvas. We knew you would have loved them.
Three days ago we would have kneeled down together. We finally decided to propose on the day we became complete again, the setting would have been similar –but in a happy manner. We found a part of the park not too far from one of the similar cases SPR took on, the lake was beautiful and the weather wondrous. We would have lured you there early in the morning and when the sun has risen over a part of the water we would have stood before as we did on that case.
In a perfect world we would be at our home, enjoying a wonderful Sunday off. We would be sipping your tea, playing a random list of classical Japanese and English music, and looking over several of the week's cases looking for where we can focus our efforts. You would be teasing us for being workaholics and as always insist we assist with the shopping for the week, even though you know we would come regardless.
In a perfect world we and the rest of SPR's gang would only gather all together when we have cases or celebrations. Not when tragedy strikes.
In a perfect world the beauty of the cherry blossoms would not be used to color a cemetery. The bright sunshine would be reflecting upon you smile not your coffin. Our tears would be saved for the happiness of our wedding –not the agony of your funeral.
In the perfect world we would have never took that case.
In a perfect world you would still be here laughing, smiling, yelling, and bringing life to every single one of us.
Monk would have walked you down to the alter, as unconventional as it is Father Brown would officiate, Masako would have planed the whole event and demanded the right to pick your wedding kimono –in something gold to reflect your heart, Yasu would be our best man just as Ayako your Maid of Honor.
But in reality Monk, Father Brown, and Ayako each officiated your funeral in a different religion to honor your soul thrice, Masako found the best plot of land and did plan out your funeral but all with a bitter smile and tears behind her eyes, and Yasu? He practically moved in and began taking care of us.
In a perfect world we would have our happily ever after.
We would all smile, laugh, live, love. After our wedding we would have continue on case by case, day by day, and eventually we would begin our family. You would have glowed in new life continuing on in your body, and we would train our children prepared for any abilities they developed.
In a perfect world we would have grown old.
In a perfect world we would have never had to think of how to live without you.
Because…
In a Perfect World –You'd Never Leave Our Side
AN: So a guest left a review for the Perfect Day story… and I quote :in a perfect parallel world… and I was about to go to sleep… so this is what I dreamt? *Shrug* I am sorry guest since this is probably not what you imagined when you sent that review –but that is what came to mind in my dreams… Opps? I'll try for something lighter next time?
Hope this doesn't ruin your day and yes, this story was supposed to be as vague as possible since I don't remember what caused Mai's passing in the dream or which twin was narrating –so I decided both, hence all the 'we' pronouns in the drabble.
Also I planned on having a lighter second drabble of a funny AU… but I worked 12 hours straight through yesterday at work, all day from 4:30 in the morning to 4:30 in the afternoon on my feet and I actually have bruises, then I had to work today and a week in I am already behind on school… and the one-shot I need to finish for the 7th so –only one! Sorry!
See you next time! With something more positive! Hopefully! Depends on your requests! So request!