[Ficlet ~ PG-13] Perfekt Dey

[wingzerosnuggles]

Title: Perfekt Dey
Length: Ficlet
Pairing: 1xR
Prompt: "haven't laughed this hard in a long time, better stop now before I
start crying." -Elliot Smith "Twilight"
Teaser: "Wake up at noon." "Check." "Banana split for breakfast." "Check." "Wear
pyjamas all day." "Check." "Splash around in the tub." "I think we were liberal
with that one. Not what your five year old self had in mind."
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5141105/21/ ... al_Nuances

Disclaimer: GW = not mine.

Author's Note: August prompts are here so I can finally work on this. The first August prompt is "haven't laughed this hard in a long time, better stop now before I start crying." from the Elliot Smith song "Twilight." Listened to the song but didn't like it much. Anyway...

Nonsensical Nuances
by mistress amethyst une

Perfekt Dey

She didn't want to close her eyes, refused to sleep. To surrender to slumber would be to let the day end. And she didn't want the best day she'd had in ages to end just yet...

"Just let me stay up til' midnight," she pleaded, even as Heero wrapped an arm around her waist. They lay spooned together in bed, his warmth urging her to rest.

"Why?"

"I just want to enjoy today down to the last second. Sentimentality."

"Hn," he grunted, tightening his grip on her slightly. "Tomorrow's a holiday so you can sleep in."

"I know. Thank you so much. What you did today-"

"It was no trouble. I can't make tomorrow any less sad, Relena. This was all I could do."

"And I thank you for it. You know, I almost feel guilty. If tomorrow wasn't a holiday, I might very well have forgotten. You almost made me forget."

"I apologize."

"No need. You were just trying to make tomorrow easier. And you have..."

"I told your PR team that you don't intend to do a public address this year. That you wished to celebrate tomorrow in private."

"I don't think I would use 'celebrate.' Still, that's a good call. I don't really want to face the media tomorrow. Not after today. Not after?" She paused to sigh. "?perfection."

"If that was perfection, you're a cheap date."

"I know. Aren't you glad? By the way, how did you find out about my 'perfect day?'"

"Pagan. You made lovely crayon scribbles, Relena. Almost charming how you spell 'day' with an 'e' and 'perfect' with a 'k.'"

"I was five and I thought that spelling was prettier," she huffed. "Still you fulfilled it down to the letter, misspelled as it was."

She knew the list by heart.

"Wake up at noon," she began.

"Check."

"Banana split for breakfast."

"Check."

"Wear pyjamas all day."

"Check."

"Splash around in the tub."

"I think we were liberal with that one. Not what your five year old self had in mind."

Relena failed to stifle a laugh. "Consider it checked anyway. We were liberal with dinner, too. Skipped it instead of having 'as many gumballs as I can fit in my mouth.'"

"Your mouth was preoccupied with other b-"

"Heero!"

"Sorry. It was too easy... Anyway, wasn't the last thing stay up past ten? One last liberty?"

She nodded, watching at the last few seconds of the day ticked by. Midnight had arrived.

"Time for bed," she said, her tone resigned and serious. For the first time in ten years, the tears didn't come. Heero was right. She had to 'celebrate,' not grieve.

"I still miss you, Father," she thought to herself. "But I won't cry anymore. I never got to spend my 'perfect day' with you but that's all right. Even if you're gone, even if I still miss you, I'm finally not lonely anymore. I finally found someone to spend my 'perfect day' with."

A single tear slid down her face...

"And I thank you for helping him find his way to me..."

[Ice_Vixen]

AWE!!! *tears up* so tougching!

[Elyn Yuy]

Gumballs...