Slayers Drabble

[eastofthemoon]

Finally wrote another drabble to my Slayers kids series. This is a short one, but I wanted to write one on Lina and Lori.

Title: Fairies
Series: Slayers
Characters: Lina and Lori (OC)
Rating: G


It was unusually quiet in the Inverse household. It was that time in the evening when the kids got ready for bed. Rowan was currently having his bath and Gourry was getting him ready for bed. Lori already had her bath, and was in bed. So that gave Lina some free time to sit in the kitchen and calculate the store's sales profit.

Lina chewed the tip of her ink pen. "Let's see, if this was today's sale total, then-"

"Momma!"

Lina jumped. Lori skidded on the floor as she ran into the kitchen and slammed her hands onto the table. Full of excitement, she pulled on Lina's arm. "Momma, you've got to see!"

"See what? You should be in bed young lady."

Lori continued to tug. "But Momma, you got to come and see the fairies!"

Lina raised an eyebrow. She saw fairies? That couldn't be right. Fairies lived deep in forests, they wouldn't go willingly near cities and humans.

"Where did you see them?"

"Outside the window! Come on, Momma!"

Lina let her daughter drag her to the hallway window. She looked out. It was dark. There was nothing to see but bright sparks floating in the air.

"Fireflies," Lina thought.

"See Momma!" Lina exclaimed, pointing her small finger at the blinking lights. "There are fairies out the window."

Lina chuckled to herself. Now it made sense, Lori mistook the fireflies to be fairies. Her daughter had never seen fireflies before. It was no wonder she thought they were fairies.

"I better tell her"

Lori hugged her around the waist. She looked up, her eyes full of wonder. "Aren't they beautiful Momma?"

Lina opened her mouth, but then close it. There was no reason to ruin it for Lori. She wouldn't be a kid forever. Was there really a need to rush it? Lina bent down and hugged her daughter around her shoulders. "Yes, they're very beautiful."

Mother and daughter sat in silence as they watched the glowing wonder outside.

Comments

[auriga]

Aw, that's a very sweet one-shot! ^__^ Just goes to show how Lina can be a softie when it comes to her kids.

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Lina is a softie to kids/cute things in general, so I would imagine she would be a double softie for her own kids.

[pharoah999.livejournal.com]

soo sweet. hope you write more!

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

That is a beautiful one-shot, I agree. I remember being a little girl and thinking that fireflies were fairies.

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I got the idea from the For Better or Worse series they made a few years back. In one episode, a young Elizabeth thought butterflies were fairies, it was cute.

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

FBOFW used to be so very good. I identified with Elizabeth until she came running back home for Anthony.

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

*nods* You might enjoy the series then. It was really just full of one shots. In each episode, they took segments from the early series, when Mike and Elizabeth were in their teen years and the last segments were when Mike starting dating Diana, but that's is as far as it goes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVi2cq6FU-s

[kokumi009.livejournal.com]

awwwww. so sweet!
very nice one-shot and it's family-oriented too! ^o^/

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I do love writing them. ^_^