"First Prayer", [original, Strange Things/Amazing Adventures of Saul and Nanette] Title: First Prayer Author: Boots/sugared Fandom: Original crossover Pairing/characters: Baker (Strange Things), Nanette (the other one) Rating: G Warnings: None in particular? Prompt/challenge you're answering: Baker/Nanette, first time Author's notes: God is used to being ignored by humans. He never expected to hear from an automaton.
Baker is in the kitchen when the door opens. He doesn’t turn. He doesn’t need to. If he waits, the girl at the door will tell him what she needs. What she wants.
“Sir?” Her voice is lower than he expected. Something in it is damaged.
Baker waits, molding tiny people out of fondant and placing them just so.
“I know I don’t talk to you like Saul says I should, but I wondered if I could maybe ask you a favour.” Something is definitely broken in it. It shifts in pitch wrongly twice while she speaks, feedback from a microphone. “I know this is the first time we’ve spoken, but see, there’s something wrong, and the way things keep going, I can’t—I can’t protect him like I want to, and I don’t want anything else, really except I…”
He’s accidentally squished the leg on one of the little figures. There’s a strangled sound behind him.
“Please. I want to live.”
Baker crushes the little figure in his hands. The strangled noise behind him fades and crackles into the hiss of static.