Title: He Draws Near
Characters: Utena, Akio
Word Count: 131
Rating: PG
She wonders why he's always there when she wants him to be. She wonders why she can say his name, either in longing or in fear and need for safety, or in interest, or in any kind of tone possible, and he will appear as if pulled forcibly from the woodwork by the sound of her voice. She wonders why he's also so close the way not even her friends are, and if her parents would have been the same, always just a whisper away, and never out of arm's reach. She wonders why she doesn't want to think of him as a parent.
She's wondered almost everything, but she never has considered to think about why he's always so close by. She does not know about predators.