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Nov. 9th, 2011 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estiroseSometimes I can write other fic during Nano. A very short AU in the "All the Lullabies" universe.
She's surprised when he shows up. She doubted that he'd ever come back again, not after what happened, but he's there at her doorstep. "I need your help," he says.
"Gai?" she asked. "What's the matter?"
Her nephew looks at her with red-rimmed eyes. "It doesn't matter. Can you get me to safety?"
What had they done to him, finally, to make him lose faith? She's not sure she wants to know. "They'll track you down. They did before."
"I made sure they can't." He looks at her, and she realizes he knows the dangers of this as well as she does. She knows that she'll be the first one they go to after he goes missing, even if - especially if - they can't track him.
"I'll do what I can." This is her area of expertise, and she'll do it well. She has false documents, always has, just in case. She sends him off on a train, hoping that the money will get him far away from where his former teammates would ever look. She's done it before. She hoped she never had to, for him.
She almost welcomes when his teammates arrive. Almost welcomes their sabers. A dead woman can't tell tales, after all. Like her nephew, she'll give her life to protect. It's just that her idea of who needs protecting is a little more limited.
As long as her nephew, her blood, is safe, that's all that matters.
She's surprised when he shows up. She doubted that he'd ever come back again, not after what happened, but he's there at her doorstep. "I need your help," he says.
"Gai?" she asked. "What's the matter?"
Her nephew looks at her with red-rimmed eyes. "It doesn't matter. Can you get me to safety?"
What had they done to him, finally, to make him lose faith? She's not sure she wants to know. "They'll track you down. They did before."
"I made sure they can't." He looks at her, and she realizes he knows the dangers of this as well as she does. She knows that she'll be the first one they go to after he goes missing, even if - especially if - they can't track him.
"I'll do what I can." This is her area of expertise, and she'll do it well. She has false documents, always has, just in case. She sends him off on a train, hoping that the money will get him far away from where his former teammates would ever look. She's done it before. She hoped she never had to, for him.
She almost welcomes when his teammates arrive. Almost welcomes their sabers. A dead woman can't tell tales, after all. Like her nephew, she'll give her life to protect. It's just that her idea of who needs protecting is a little more limited.
As long as her nephew, her blood, is safe, that's all that matters.
