Title: The Last One

Author: badly-knitted

Characters: Ryo, Dee.

Rating: PG

Written For: Challenge 252: Last at drabble_weekly.

Spoilers/Setting: After Vol. 7.

Summary: Dee is down to his last cigarette, but there's a good reason for that.

Disclaimer: I don't own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.

A/N: Double drabble.

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Ryo stepped out onto the precinct's roof, where Dee was lounging against the wall.

"There you are! I've been looking everywhere for you. What're you doing up here?"

Dee brandished a cigarette packet. "Smoke break."

"I thought you were quitting."

"I am, haven't had a smoke in three weeks, but the Chief doesn't need to know that. Long as nobody tells him I quit I can still get away with takin' the occasional break."

"That's a bit sneaky, isn't it?"

"Depends how ya look at it. Sometimes I just need to get some air, clear my head, and bein' a smoker gives me the perfect excuse."

"Even though you're technically an ex-smoker?"

Smirking, Dee shrugged. "I got cigs." He turned the battered packet over in his hand. "One, anyway. I saved the last one, so I'd always have one in case I needed it. Guess you could say I'm tryin' to make it last as long as possible."

"By not smoking it?" The idea had a rather appealingly warped logic to it.

"Exactly! Plus, the longer I go without smokin' it, even havin' it right there to tempt me… I guess I'm kinda testin' my willpower. So far I'm winnin'."

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The End