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This will be added to the Agender Ganma post shortly, but it's split out as it fills a square on my GYWO bingo (which I need to paste to here), for beach with palm trees, featuring Chiyo, Gako, Haru, and Comede.

It's set after my Unconventional Courtship fic "A Dance We Do" and references it.

She'd never been to a beach like this before. Chiyo looked over at her girlfriend Gako as the other smiled back at her. Chiyo wished that she had her memories back, but being with Gako was the next best thing.

"It's nice to be here," she said idly. The sun was shining, and the water looked deep blue from where she stood. This place was so unlike the beaches she'd been to in her homeland of Japan. "Will Haru and Comede be joining us soon?"

"Yes." Gako smiled at her. Chiyo liked Gako's famly - her parents, both adoptive and biological, her younger half-brother Haru, and Haru's child Comede. It was a bit odd, still, to have so many relatives that weren't human - at least not fully. Of course, she wasn't full human either. Haru was the only full of the bunch, and that was because his parents were both humans too.

"Good. This place is much different than home." She'd felt closed in at home, with the whole set of events that had caused her to lose her memories.

"We can relax and just be ourselves for once. I'll want to do some painting, but...." Gako threw an arm around Chiyo's shoulders.

Gako painted more realistically than her father, who painted more cubist and unrealistic. There was a reason, after all, that her father's nickname was "Cubi".

"Stay with me?" Chiyo asked. It was hard not to feel uncertain sometimes, though Gako assured her that they'd been close as childhood friends before they became girlfriends.

"Always." Gako grinned, and then her grin faded. "Are you okay?"

"Not... really? Sometimes, I mean. I just... this feels weird. Going to the beach, no responsibilities...."

It was so different at home, where she was assumed to be her father's heir apparent, because she was the only one of her siblings that most people could see.

"It's okay. Everybody needs a rest once in a while." She waved at someone that Chiyo couldn't see, presumably Haru and Comede.

A minute or two later and Haru and Comede were with them. Haru and Gako definitely looked related, given that Gako had assumed a blend of her father's form, Haru's, and Haru's mother Akari's. Comede had assumed a blend of Haru's looks and his father's, and Chiyo had to admit he looked handsome. But then again, Jeannot wasn't bad-looking when he was smiling. Which had to be extremely rare.

Sometimes she wished that she hadn't been found, though. She sometimes missed her life before Gako and Jeannot had come.

"Have we missed anything?" Haru asked, and Gako laughed.

"Not much," Gako told him. "Just me and Chiyo being together."

"Mating?" Comede asked, his eyes brightening. Comede was still young, after all. He wouldn't have come if it hadn't been for Haru.

"No, Comede," Haru said patiently. "Come on, let's get set up."

"I think that's a good idea too," Chiyo said. After all, they had come to relax, to get away for a while.

In the end, she reflected, she really needed it.