Where Heaven Waits Who: Tohru and Dorian Where: Asgard and Looking Glass Lake When: The day following Fairytale Week Rating: G Warnings: None Summary: After a heartfelt talk about their deceased mothers, Dorian arranges a little something special to help Tohru cope with her loss while in this world.
It had been no secret in Asgard that Dorian had an abusive past with his father and was very adoring of the relationship he once had with his mother. Though while he generally tried not to advertise it, his sympathy was more genuine and empathetic than most, because he could relate to the suffering of others. While Tohru had never physically suffered from it, the loss of her mother was something that seemed to still rest heavily on her mind and heart, and he couldn't blame her. Even after a century of time, he missed the woman who had raised the soul of the child Dorian. For Tohru, it had only been two years. And time, he knew, didn't heal everything.
He realized fairly quickly in his conversation with her that he wanted to help her. Not pity her and not coddle her - but to help understand her and let her know that she had someone she could rely on. He had remembered running into Morana last year and how she had led him to the gravemarker she had made in memory of the girl she had said she killed. He knew this was important to her, to have something to remind her of her past. He figured Tohru would probably appreciate something similar - though certainly not a gravemarker for her mother. And he hoped, for once, that he could share the experience, rather than be a witness to it.
When he and Tohru ended their conversation, he fell asleep, as he did often that week. But during his times of wakefulness, he went to Emptiness (and promptly napped on a bench as the cow and sheep wandered off down the street) and found a good-sized toy sailboat. He did, too, as he instructed of Tohru: to find little things (flowers, poems, anything she would part with) that reminded her of her mother. He left his pile, along with the toy boat, at the end of the bed, waiting for the fairytales to end. And when they did, he left a crayon-smeared note under her door, telling her he was ready to leave at two o'clock this very day.
The note asked Tohru to meet him in the barn, where he had then saddled up two horses after he transformed into his marble Dorian form. Thanks to Quigby's voracious appetite for reading, Dorian had learned much about tending to these animals. He wondered if she would ask many questions, and he would be glad to answer them. But as it stood, he was hoping for this to be a surprise. He hoped it would be something that would make her happy.