One Day: Angsty One Shot PG

Neko · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject: One Day: Angsty One Shot PG

First person and present tense. I dunno, I was bored and this came to me.

It's kinda depressing but we all know the ending XD

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I gaze at the dimly lit screen in front of me. The map of zeros and ones, A’s, C’s, T’s, and G’s floating like some kind of deranged alphabet and number soup in my eyes. With a groan I take off my glasses and massage my tired eyes with my fingers.

I’ve been warned time and again what a foolish thing I was doing. The ethical repercussions it might bring on me. I just don’t care anymore, I want to yell at them ‘you know nothing of loosing a son!’

On the screen in front of me, I can see my son’s DNA mapped out. It was the equivalent of every single other genetic code I’d seen in front of me on a screen. It had the A’s and the C’s as well as the T’s and G’s just as I knew it would.

The blueprints for a human that no longer exists.

Unbidden the tears spring to my eyes as the letters and numbers melted together into one incomprehensible mess. With a soft sob I pull my glasses off and set them down on the desk in front of me. It was so hard, to see my wife and son just there. Nothing I could do or say could help them in their pain.

I feel so sorry for Haruka.

Taking in a few deep breaths I steady my nerves and calm down enough to wipe away the salty stream that came from my eyes. I turn my bloodshot gaze back to the computer and smile at it sadly. There was my son, right in front of me.

I let my fingers brush the screen as if I could just reach into the computer and pull out my happy son, squealing and cheerful as he always was. I could almost hear him calling out for me in his tiny voice but I knew deep down that he was gone.

With a shuddering breath I begin to type away at the keyboard again, turning the genes into data and the DNA into binary. I don’t care about the ethics anymore I just want my Saito back. I miss him so much.

After a few more hours I can’t lift another finger, they’re so sore. All I can do is sit there and bask in the unhealthy glow of the screen. I can practically feel my eyes glaze over as I sit there for god knows how long.

“Papa?” a tiny voice says behind me.

I whirl around, suddenly remembering that I’m not at the lab. I’m at home, with my wife and remaining son. “Yes, Netto?” I ask, my voice breaking.

Netto toddled over to me and looked up at me with large brown eyes. “Saito-nii-san?” he asked. It was a question, I knew it. Even if he didn’t have the vocabulary to put what he wanted to ask into words, I knew what he was trying to say.

I’m at a loss. I have no idea what to tell my son insofar as explaining where his brother went. He was at the funeral and he saw it all. But the mind of a child that is barely even two years old isn’t meant to work that way. With a tiny smile I smooth his wild brown hair against his head and pick him up. “He’s not here,” I tell him.

“Where?” Netto asks me.

“He’s…” my lips tremble a bit. “He’s gone, son. I’m sorry,” I tell him as I pull him close to me.

Netto pushes against me with all his two-year-old strength. “No!” he yells. “I want Saito-nii-san! I want to play!”

“Shhh…” I tell him soothingly. “What else am I supposed to do?”

Suddenly he bursts into tears and begins to sob into my chest. “I want Saito-nii-san,” he sobs violently. “Where?”

I hold my trembling son, feeling my own tears fall freely down my face. It was stupid to think that Netto wouldn’t realize the absence of his twin. He knew just as well as any adult that Saito wasn’t coming back. Ever. “I’m sorry,” I whisper over and over.

After about twenty minutes of crying, his tears subside. I look down and see his sleeping face, tear-streaked and worn. With what little strength I have left, I pick him up and carry him to his room.

His room is still painted a bright red and blue scheme with primary colors splashed every which way. There’s a bunk bed tucked in the corner and I set Netto on the bottom bunk where they both had slept anyways.

Haruka and I figured that once they outgrew the bottom bunk one would be old enough to climb and sleep in the top one. That really didn’t seem to happen though. Funny how life seems to come at you, no matter how prepared you may think you are.

I tuck the covers under his chin but I can still hear sniffling as I walk out. It’s been a hard few months for all of us.

I drag my weary body back to the computer and stare at the genetic mush in front of me. Eventually I will finish converting this into data and Netto will have his twin again. My son will be back and my wife will have her baby boy.

Everything will be right again.

With a renewed vigor I begin to stab the keys on my board going through the puzzle piece by piece. I know that one day everything will fall back into place. That much I can do for my son.

Saito I promise you, one day.

One day.
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**Sol** · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject:

Wow...

That was very good, Neko. You captured Yuuichirou's grief over Saito's passing perfectly, and the way he just doesn't care about the ethics of what he is doing anymore adds to his character. Netto was also very well done for a two-year old.

Nice job.
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Kitty-Chan · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject:

That was a really sweet & endearing story.
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Midnight · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject:

*wipes back a tear* Wow...for a first, this certainly is quite the heart-rending piece...

You do such a fabulous job of weaving words into a tapestry that is this work--it's generally miasmatic all through and through, and, well, everything was done rather nicely. You captured the essence of Yuu's torn emotions quite well--his desperation to find any way to bring his lost son back, and the extreme difficulty there is in letting Netto know of it.

Fics don't often make me cry, so my misty eyes indicate one thing--this is absolute gold. Fantastic job. T_T
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YaminoMiko · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject:

..........Now you made me cry............ahhh.......shoot........*goes away and cries*
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Wackoman.EXE · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject:

That was beautiful Neko. I was holding back tears through the entire story, and it was written so well. The way you portarayed Yuuichirou's emotion was divine and they way the whole story was made... It was pure genius. This is my favorite fic...ever. A phenomenal ficlet.
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**Plantman** · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:04 pm Post subject:

Wow that was a lovely piece of work. Angsty, yes, but it showed such depth to Yuuichirou's hardest times, dealing not only with the loss of Saito, but with how the loss affected Netto. I really appreciate that little bit of relationship you showed to him, considering how rarely Netto and Yuuichirou are set to interact in other works. Really lovely story.
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Jenova Spawn · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject:

Very good! It has a strong emotional grip, which in my opinion, is quite rare in fics. If Capcom or Takamisaki were to show the back story of Saito in anyway, this would be a good starting point.
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DjangoSP · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:08 am Post subject:

T_T I've never read a lot of fics like this before, but this was beautiful. I almost broke down myself. It was sad in the middle, but it became suspenseful towards the end. I can't wait to read more of this.
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