HakuSen datte iwanai kedo

[petronia]

Senfic, for canis_m. A drabble.



Okaasan

"It was my fault, really," she said. Her fingers brushed the photograph's edge: a young girl in school uniform, laughing, hair whipping windblown about her face. Sunlight broken into a thousand bright shards on the water. "I met your father here, on this bridge. I wanted you to see it before it was gone for good, even if you were too young to remember. I wanted to take pictures..."

Her daughter's hug interrupted her, sudden and fierce. "Chihiro," she said wonderingly, lifting a hand to the girl's hair.

"Don't be sorry, Kaasan," she said. "You don't have to be sorry."

Comments

[squidlet.livejournal.com]

I think I get it, but I don't? Uhm.

[typhoid-mary.livejournal.com]

My take -- Mom's guilty because this is the place Chihiro almost drowned, but Chihiro knows meeting Haku was worth it.
-Mari

Ai rabu yuu!

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

I guess the squeaky wheel really does get the grease. But--but--more!?

The parents are so clueless in the movie, it's nice to see them portrayed with some redeeming value in fic. If you're suggesting that Mom and Dad first met on a bridge over Kohakugawa--awwwww. (Haku's the river o' luv!)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I am suggesting precisely that. :) I'd actually been turning over the idea in my mind for several weeks, trying to figure out how best to write it, before deciding to cut to the chase. Now to polish up the wording.

More if I can, but I have this problem where I confuse Haku and Akira. Terrible.