Nana: Okay, this one isn't about work, but the original concept was, and that's what spawned this. It's a little bit creepy, but I'm proud of it…glad to get anything out, really writer's block is no fun! Anyway, hope you like!

Aki In The Bath

Title: Dying Birds

Prompt: 089. Work

Rating: PG-13

He never thought he wanted to be like Hatori. Hatori was always faceless, not worth mentioning. Useful but more like an appliance or a case of pills than anything approaching human.

That was until his birds got sick, all falling around him like flowers from a branch. They died fast and he couldn't stop it, the ones that lingered there was no way he could save. As he watched his creatures fall around him, all he wanted was to be like Hatori. To save lives, stop Death in it's tracks but he couldn't. Instead he accepted his carpet of corpses.