[12-Jan-2008] [Rozen Maiden] Tea Leaves Her

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Title: Tea Leaves Her
Challenge: 12-Jan-2008 "one thing I can treat myself to, and if it's to be had I mean to have it"
Based on: Rozen Maiden
Characters: Jun, Nori, Shinku
Type: Angst? / humor; 100 words
Warnings: None.

Rozen Maiden © PEACH-PIT / Nomad / Geneon.

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"Nori?" asked Jun. "Are you going to the grocery store today?"

"Yes, later," Nori said. "Do you want me to get something?"

"Not for myself," Jun said, "but it looks like we've run out of tea." He pointed across the kitchen.

Shinku, desperate for tea, had abandoned all propriety. She was rummaging in the kitchen garbage bin like a stray animal. She turned, and silently looked at Jun and Nori with big sad eyes, scraps and crumbs in her hair, and a used tea-bag in her mouth.

"That," Nori said, "is sad, cute, and scary, all at the same time."