Very short ficlet, Gintama - no title yet
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rainsometimesA very short ficlet centred on Otae. Prompt: "moonlight". No title yet. Currently 122 words. Started out as a drabble but I had to rewrite and add stuff a bit to better fit canon facts. No spoilers. Too short to use a cut.
Untitled Gintama ficlet
Character: Otae
Tonight the cabaret is closed, and Tae stays at home with her brother, going to bed before midnight. Or tries to, but sleep is slow to come. She pads through the old house, softly so Shinpachi won’t wake up, the moon keeping her company through the window. No gorilla stalker today. All is at peace.
She doesn’t like ghost stories, hates haunted houses; but here at home, in their fortress, such thoughts don’t scare her. On nights like these, Tae can walk here in the house, in the dojo, through the moonlit garden. Avoiding the creaky floorboards, the night-time city noises muffled beyond the walls. She’s the one keeping watch, then, so the ghosts don’t have to do it. It’s all right.
Untitled Gintama ficlet
Character: Otae
Tonight the cabaret is closed, and Tae stays at home with her brother, going to bed before midnight. Or tries to, but sleep is slow to come. She pads through the old house, softly so Shinpachi won’t wake up, the moon keeping her company through the window. No gorilla stalker today. All is at peace.
She doesn’t like ghost stories, hates haunted houses; but here at home, in their fortress, such thoughts don’t scare her. On nights like these, Tae can walk here in the house, in the dojo, through the moonlit garden. Avoiding the creaky floorboards, the night-time city noises muffled beyond the walls. She’s the one keeping watch, then, so the ghosts don’t have to do it. It’s all right.