HAPPY LURKER DAY!!

[ickaimp]

HAPPY LURKER DAY!!!

... originally drawn for one of Conan's upcoming chapters in Gordian Knot, but works well for this. ^___^

[Edit:
The next three two person to reply can have a drabble of their choice. Gimme familiar characters and a prompt.
(magicbulletgirl, candy__chan, socchan, give me one as well) ]

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I should be the one to thank you, for Lurker Day

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"-So that's when the waiter says 'Shh! Don't announce it so loud or everyone's going to want a fly in their soup too!'"

Sonoko grinned as Ran's peals of laughter rang out from the cell phone pressed up against her ear. Ran didn't laugh nearly as often as she should. Not nearly as much as she had before Shin'ichi disappeared. Sonoko missed it.

Ran's merriment faded away, dying with a final hiccup. Sonoko smiled to herself as she fell backwards on to her bed, idly staring up at the ceiling and debating sticking those glow-in-the-dark stars up there for the millionth time. She never remembered to do it though, so her ceiling remained boringly plain and unadorned.

They lapsed into silence, the good kind of silence that you can only get with someone who you're comfortable with. She and Ran talked a lot, but they had a lot of quiet moments too.

Sonoko wasn't very comfortable with the silence, but sometimes it was okay. As long as she wasn't alone. Sometimes having a big house wasn't as 'cool' as people thought it was. Big house on a big property meant a big space that was hard to fill up with life.

She'd gotten lost here a lot when she was younger. She'd grown up here, but sometimes it felt... too big. Scarily so. She'd learned to talk a lot to cover the heavy silences, to assure her that she wasn't the only person left on the planet.

Ran had saved her from a lot of that. Ran always found her when she got lost.

"Sonoko?" Ran's voice in her ear was soft and hesitant, but it jolted her out of her thoughts.

"Yeah?"

"Don't ever leave, okay?" Sonoko had to strain to make out her best friend's words.

"Never." Sonoko promised with a fierce sincerity that probably would have startled any else who knew her. Ran had had enough people leave her, first her parents splitting up, then Shin'ichi's disappearance. There had to be someone in Ran's life who didn't leave her, and if Sonoko had to move heaven, hell and earth, she'd do it.

She could hear Ran's sigh over the phone, but it sounded like Ran was smiling again. Sonoko could see it in her mind's eye, the soft tender smile Ran had when she thought people weren't looking. "Thanks."

"Anytime." Sonoko smiled slightly as well. "Just promise me you'll never leave me either, okay?"

"Never." Ran agreed, harsh and strong like a purr from a tigress.

"Good." Sonoko nodded, laying an arm over her eyes, blocking out the view of the empty ceiling. "I'm holding you to that."

-fin-

[soc_puppet]

Ooooo, that was lovely ^___^ The real strength of the friendship between Ran and Sonoko, and the depth you granted Sonoko that so many people overlook, and the glow-in-the-dark ceiling stars, it's just--! Well, it was exactly right is what it was, and I'm full of warm and happy feelings from it and stuff ♥