11. Wait for Me…
(Saving Me)
Word count: 170
Gojyo had never assumed that he'd done nothing with his life because he was waiting for someone.
Something, maybe – something to inspire him, or to make him want to get out of his crappy little house and try to be more than he was. Maybe he was waiting for something, he figured, but never someone. Never Hakkai. Because who in their life waited for a Hakkai? Someone that important, someone that vital to his survival, was not the person you ever expected to make a difference.
He'd been doing something good. Saving this guy's life when he clearly did not want to be saved; taking care of him despite reservations and inadequacies and the fact that Gojyo really couldn't afford to be supporting two people. It had just been a good deed, something to counter all of the things he did wrong in his life.
How did it turn out that the one thing he did on a whim would be the one thing that wound up saving his life?