A/N: This is just for all you Eric (and Rayne) fans, part of the Gone Native Collection. It's tiny, it just happened. Chapter 41 of Gone Native and Jess's special POV one-shot will be coming out as soon as I'm able to get them up, but it might be a while, sorry.
She's just a bratty, know-it-all, in-your-face little girl. This should not be a problem for me, the Recluse. The King of Seclusion.
But she has pigtails that are entirely too cute, and a way of worming her way into anything and everything, whether she's wanted there or not. How did she figure out how to get into my lab?
When I say no to her, she gets these big, sad blue eyes that make me want to give her the world, or at least what parts of it I can manage. And she knows it.
She's taken over my kitchen, which is a cardinal sin, but she just smiles at me, and all is forgiven. I hate it.
She swivels in a chair behind me as I work, singing nonsense songs and brushing her doll's hair. I want to scream at her to go somewhere else, but I don't.
She sings too loud, laughs too much, runs when she should walk, thinks hugs are equivalent to verbal hellos, and somehow stole my old-school Nintendo t-shirt to use as a nightgown.
In any other time, in any other place, I would have demolished this girl, but here, now, at the end of the world, I just look at her and half-smile, and I find to my great surprise that the smile is easier to make than I thought.
A/N: Not much, only like 100 words, but I hope you see some more of how Rayne is making everyone's day brighter. Story Title is of course from the song My Girl.
PS, review and let me know if you'd like me to make this a little "Everybody loves Rayne" series, drabbles from everyone in the group all thinking about our favorite girl... AND follow me on Twitter, at PhoenixPixie23, geeky fan-fic stuff only :) !