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Title: Warmth
Rating: PG
Media: Fic
Pairing/Characters: Brook, with a side appearance from Chopper
Word Count: 273
Prompt: Rain



Brook loved the rain.

For fifty lonely years, he longed for the feel of the sun upon his bones for even a fleeting moment, but still he sailed endlessly on, unable to escape the grim fog that ensconced the Florian Triangle.

He tried to remember the good times with his comrades, but they soon became as obscured with fog as his ship was, their sunny faces replaced with nothing more than skulls. If he could only feel the sun, he thought, he could remember once more.

But ah, the rain! How could he ever forget? Those days, he could pretend that the sun was just around the bend and the Captain called for them to sing along to the rhythm of the raindrops to summon the sun. The sun never came out for Brook alone, but as long as it rained, he could pretend that it would as he slid and whooped along the deck, imagining his Captain’s joyful cries behind him. The rain may have chilled him to the bone – yohoho! – but he could swear that it brought warmth with it.

On the deck of the Sunny, Brook stood still on the deck, face tilted up to stare up at the recent downpour, steadfastly ignoring the fact that it was filling up the holes and cracks in his skull.

A screech came from Chopper, “Brook! Don’t stand out there, you’ll catch a…” A moment of hesitation, for the reindeer was still puzzled by the mechanics of the skeleton. “…a chill.”

“I won’t,” Brook said. “It’s quite warm. Can’t you feel it?”

“Feel what?”

There was a smile in his voice. “The sun.”

Date: 2011-08-27 01:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tonko.livejournal.com
I love this!

Date: 2011-08-27 06:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] printfogey.livejournal.com
The sun behind the rain! This is really neat, and feels very Brook-esque. The bit with his memories works excellent.

(I think Brook only lacked a shadow during the last five years of his long years of solitude, but I could totally see him having that attitude to the sun during that time. And even before that, I believe he mostly drifted around in fog, so this feels right nevertheless.)

Date: 2011-09-03 07:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] printfogey.livejournal.com
Btw, new prompt?

Date: 2011-09-02 03:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lady-karasu.livejournal.com
This was lovely, very nice feel to it.

Date: 2012-03-04 01:28 am (UTC)
hokuton_punch: A sketch with colored lines of one of my characters, Citroen Kelly, saying "shantih."  Art by Jisuk Cho. (citroen kelly maui shantih star)
From: [personal profile] hokuton_punch
Ahhh, this is heartbreakingly lovely. ♥

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