Trio Maxwell-Chang (trio) wrote in fictionaltrio, @ 2007-08-12 03:28:00 |
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Entry tags: | duo maxwell, gundam wing |
[Gundam Wing] Rough
Title: Rough
Author: Trio Maxwell-Chang
Fandom: Gundam Wing
Pairing or POV: Duo
Special Note: Another of the Christmas Drabble, set to these specifications. Merry Christmas, foobard!
His hands are rough - a worker’s hands. Years of scraping out a living, of scrounging whatever work he could, and then food from the trash when there was no work or home to be had, ensured that he would never have soft hands. In the winter, sometimes his joints ache, a dull throbbing pain that reminds him of his past, of too many nights spent shivering beneath a threadbare jacket gleaned from a trash can, learning skills that would serve him well during the war. His life is measured in those hands, each crease and scar marking its own story.
At Christmas, after he’s made the gifts for four friends, carefully crafting the figures out of wood with an eye for detail that would shock his allies, he stares at his hands. There are new gouges, places where the knife occasionally slipped, or where the sandpaper scraped the flesh thin. He gazes down at his work-rough hands... and he smiles.
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Word Count: 161