A MiB/CardCaptors Crossover
Author's Note: I've only seen the American dubbed version of CardCaptors so I'm using some of the names of the main characters from that since they're what I'm a little more comfortable with. I hope no one minds.
"Madison, are you finished unpacking?" Sakura Avalon said as she stepped out of the bathroom of the the room she was sharing with her best friend at the Queen Victoria Hotel in New York City. She could hardly believe that they were there. It had only been a week ago that her father had recieved the news that he had been selected to give the opening lecture at a symposium in New York. Tory hadn't been able to take time off from his part-time job, unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how much he was annoying Sakura that day, so her dad had agreed to bring Madison along so Sakura would have someone to keep her company. Of course, Kero had snuck along in Sakura's luggage so she wouldn't have been really alone but she was very happy Madison was there. They were going to have a fantastic time.
Just then she noticed her friend staring out the window with a sad expression on her face. "Madison, what's wrong?" Sakura said as she went over to her. She had never seen Madison look so sad before, like her heart was broken.
"I'm sorry, Sakura," Madison said as she turned to face her, wiping a tear from her cheek as she did so. She carefully picked her words, not wanting to upset her best friend. She knew how much Sakura had been looking forward to this trip. She didn't need a wet blanket along for the ride. "I was just thinking about....my father." She blurted the words out quickly, their sound unfamiliar to her. She had said that word maybe five times in her ten years.
"Your father?" Sakura asked.
"He was American, from here," Madison whispered. "My mom doesn't like to talk about him. That's the only thing I really know about him except that he died before I was born. I don't even know what he looks like. My mom burned all of his pictures and everything."
"Madison, I never knew. You must really miss him," Sakura whispered. She had known of course that her friend's father was dead but she never knew that Madison knew so little about him. Although Sakura had lost her mother at a young age, at least her father and brother had kept her mom's memory alive.
"It doesn't really matter," Madison said with a hesitent smile. "Why don't you go on downstairs and meet your dad for dinner? I'm not really hungry. I think I'm going to go ahead and go to sleep."
"Well, okay. If you're sure." Sakura said as she headed for the door. "If you change your mind about eating, my dad said we could use room service, if Kero hasn't already got ahold of it, that is."
Madison moved back to the window as soon as her friend was gone and looked out on the city again. Had her father looked out over this place in the same way long ago? Madison wished she knew something, anything about him. She didn't even know if he had known her mom had been pregnant before he died. If he had known, did he want his daughter? A tear rolled down her cheek dripping onto the plum blossoms in a vase on the room's table.
"I miss you, Daddy," Madison whispered as she pushed the window open and sadly dropped the flower, watching it fall down, down, down until it came to rest beside a black car parked at the curb of the hotel. A man in a dark suit bent down and picked it up then looked up.
Madison quickly shut the window and went back to the bed. It had been so silly dropping the flower like that. She carefully opened her bag and took out a card. Mio, one of her bodyguards had pushed it into her hand in the moments before she had boarded the plane with Sakura and her father. The message was simple, 'If you want to know the truth about your father, look here.' Then a New York address was listed. Madison stared down at it for a moment before beginning to change into her pajamas. Just before she climbed into bed, she slipped the card into her pajama pocket over her heart. "Daddy," she whispered, her eyes slowly slipping shut as tears ran silently down her cheeks.