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May. 17th, 2012 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lirillithTitle: Asters
Fandom: Tiger & Bunny
Character: Pao-lin
Word count: 225
Rating: G
Summary: Pao-lin wants a potted plant. She has her reasons.
Notes: Written for a prompt on Tumblr.
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It took Pao-lin a little while. She needed to find the time in a packed schedule to slip away on her own, and she needed to find a place she could reach easily by train and on foot. The name struck her as kind of funny -- nursery, like a place to take care of children -- considering what had made her want to buy a flower in the first place.
And then once she was at the nursery, she had to find the asters, which was a bit harder than she'd expected, especially trying to find one about the color of her hair clip. Pao-lin knew what her parents had meant with the gift, but it still felt strange having something stuck in her hair that way, just like it felt weird when Karina did her nails at a sleepover, or when she had to wear makeup for a TV appearance. And she couldn't help worrying that it might fall out. She kept fiddling with it, readjusting it. That was why she was shopping here instead.
She bought the flower pot, and the plant, and she felt a little silly making her way home on the train, but if her parents were thinking of her, she could think of them, too. It was a reminder, one she could see without looking in the mirror.
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Fandom: Tiger & Bunny
Character: Pao-lin
Word count: 225
Rating: G
Summary: Pao-lin wants a potted plant. She has her reasons.
Notes: Written for a prompt on Tumblr.
****
It took Pao-lin a little while. She needed to find the time in a packed schedule to slip away on her own, and she needed to find a place she could reach easily by train and on foot. The name struck her as kind of funny -- nursery, like a place to take care of children -- considering what had made her want to buy a flower in the first place.
And then once she was at the nursery, she had to find the asters, which was a bit harder than she'd expected, especially trying to find one about the color of her hair clip. Pao-lin knew what her parents had meant with the gift, but it still felt strange having something stuck in her hair that way, just like it felt weird when Karina did her nails at a sleepover, or when she had to wear makeup for a TV appearance. And she couldn't help worrying that it might fall out. She kept fiddling with it, readjusting it. That was why she was shopping here instead.
She bought the flower pot, and the plant, and she felt a little silly making her way home on the train, but if her parents were thinking of her, she could think of them, too. It was a reminder, one she could see without looking in the mirror.
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