Five sentences

by Blossomwitch

A series of fics written for the 5sentence fics challenge community. Featuring Gojyo and Hakkai, both as friendship and yaoi. Each fic is five sentences long and takes a snapshot of a different look at their relationship.

14. Stitch in Time

Prompt #9--Stitch in Time

There were moments in your past that you knew you would change in an instant if you could; things you fantasized about for hours and hours on end, thinking what might have gone differently, how you might have stopped it from happening if only, if only, if only...

But there were things in your past that you knew you couldn't change; things that no matter how much you thought about it, you couldn't imagine them not happening, couldn't imagine what you would be like today if they hadn't.

Then you realize quite clearly one day, while you're watching him wash dishes or comb his hair or some other stupid thing, that if it wasn't for all these things in your past you never would have met him--or, more likely, you would have met him, but you wouldn't have noticed.

There are things you have now that you wouldn't trade for the world.

And the second realization hits--that even if you could go back in time, even after all those wistful fantasies, agonized if onlys--after all that, you wouldn't make any changes.