suddenly, seized by idea
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onepiece_300Title: Get Out While You Still Can
Rating: PG for implied violence
Media: Fic
Character: Sabo
Word Count: 300
Prompt: Seize
Spoilers: Up to and including chapter 587
Nitpicks etc? Yes, please!
Sabo couldn't stand hands grabbing him, tight clothes restraining him, houses closing in on him; making his future look narrow and cold. Grab the moment. Get away while you still can. He ran, and ran, and ran. To the Grey Terminal, to the wild mountains beyond.
Ace was fierce and suspicious but he never made people do something they didn't want. He was free and strong and proof that kids could be tough enough to survive. They soon became partners in crime; then, eventually, friends. And then, after Luffy turned up, they made themselves brothers. A real family.
Fear, nausea and despair clutched him tightly on that horrible day after he'd found out the town nobles' plans for the Grey Terminal, vainly running around trying to stop it; to warn his brothers and everyone else. It was hard to breathe.
He realised he couldn't ever stay here in his father's house, no matter what. Maybe he could have borne it, if it was just him becoming small, hemmed-in and miserable - but no, they wanted him to be like them, all twisted and poisonous inside. Treating other people like they were worth nothing.
He had to believe Ace and Luffy had survived. But Sabo couldn't get to them anymore. His father's arms were too long, reaching everywhere on this island; iron bars and burned bodies and the smell of rot were in the way. Already the bars were closing in, again. Sabo had to get out.
He managed to slip through the cracks one more time, then stole a fishing boat. Go, his heart told him. Now, before it's too late. You know you can't stay here. Go. Go. Go. But he wasn't afraid, only excited and relieved.
He raised the flag that he'd made and set off, hope singing.
Rating: PG for implied violence
Media: Fic
Character: Sabo
Word Count: 300
Prompt: Seize
Spoilers: Up to and including chapter 587
Nitpicks etc? Yes, please!
Sabo couldn't stand hands grabbing him, tight clothes restraining him, houses closing in on him; making his future look narrow and cold. Grab the moment. Get away while you still can. He ran, and ran, and ran. To the Grey Terminal, to the wild mountains beyond.
Ace was fierce and suspicious but he never made people do something they didn't want. He was free and strong and proof that kids could be tough enough to survive. They soon became partners in crime; then, eventually, friends. And then, after Luffy turned up, they made themselves brothers. A real family.
Fear, nausea and despair clutched him tightly on that horrible day after he'd found out the town nobles' plans for the Grey Terminal, vainly running around trying to stop it; to warn his brothers and everyone else. It was hard to breathe.
He realised he couldn't ever stay here in his father's house, no matter what. Maybe he could have borne it, if it was just him becoming small, hemmed-in and miserable - but no, they wanted him to be like them, all twisted and poisonous inside. Treating other people like they were worth nothing.
He had to believe Ace and Luffy had survived. But Sabo couldn't get to them anymore. His father's arms were too long, reaching everywhere on this island; iron bars and burned bodies and the smell of rot were in the way. Already the bars were closing in, again. Sabo had to get out.
He managed to slip through the cracks one more time, then stole a fishing boat. Go, his heart told him. Now, before it's too late. You know you can't stay here. Go. Go. Go. But he wasn't afraid, only excited and relieved.
He raised the flag that he'd made and set off, hope singing.
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Date: 2010-09-16 10:41 pm (UTC)In all seriousness, I LOVE this. It's wonderfully evocative and really captures the desperation of Sabo and his search for escape. C: Bravo!
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Date: 2010-09-17 06:37 am (UTC)