ext_73550 ([identity profile] fyliwionvilyaer.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] 31_days2009-07-14 10:25 pm

[July 14] [Magic Kaito/Detective Conan] Forever and Ever

Title: Forever and Ever
Author: Fyliwion
Fandom: Detective Conan/Magic Kaitou
Theme/Day: July 14/ Forever meant so many things
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I’m still Fyli… not Gosho



At six forever was how long we’d stay friends. In our minds we’d be friends forever, and you’d always be at my side, and always making me laugh. I had no doubt about that forever…

By eight we thought our parents were forever, it never hit either of us that your Dad, your Dad with all his magic and tricks might not be immortal. I didn’t know what to say, or even what to do. I didn’t know Mama that well—so it wasn’t really the same. And your Dad did magic so how could he die?

Twelve was the age that reconfirmed that first thought, only now instead of just being best friend’s forever there was that little nagging voice in the back of my mind making up scenarios. Me becoming a famous police woman just like Dad, and you being a world famous magician—we’d be married of course.

When eighteen arrived forever was starting to look bleak. For one, you’d drifted off more and more, and I was looking at different universities. Forever? We were lucky if our friendship would last through college. Forever didn’t exist anymore. Forever ended with death, which was always hanging over us too, after Dad ended up in the hospital after the one heist. Forever— Nothing lasted forever, and even your friends change.

At twenty-one forever was the amount of time that I knew I’d hate you. “Forever, and ever and ever—“ because you’d been lying to me forever. And I’d already hated you “forever,” and now you gave me every reason never to think of you again… forever and ever and ever… which is what I told myself night after night… and all the while wondered if the pain was ever, ever going to end or if that was forever too.

But at twenty-five you explained that forever was in the middle of a gem. Forever laid inside some little tiny stone that looked like it wasn’t worth much at all, except when you held it up in the moonlight. Eternity was right there in the palm of your hand, and it was all for the taking if we wanted it. Just when forever was on another star, the gem opened up a new world that held all the magic and mystery that we’d believed in when we first met. Forever…

You also smashed it that same night…

Forever was what you asked for when we were twenty-eight and KID was gone. After we knew that forever didn’t exist, but that forever was also exactly what we didn’t want. Forever at your side. Forever dealing with you and while I wondered exactly what on earth possessed me to say yes?

I did.

Author’s Note: Not my most original one yet… and I’m still not a huge fan of first person… ah well… experimentation!