Missing Home [Closed]

[mercury_gaze]

Who: Jendayi and Lea
What: Lea finds out the little girls he's kind of adopted is a cuddle bug
Where: Lea's apartment
When: Backdated to about a week after Jendayi's arrival
Warnings: You'll need mouthwash, floss, and toothbrush if you intend to keep all of your teeth.

Jendayi lay sprawled on the couch in Lea's apartment.  It was okay, not as soft as the bedding in her Papa's den, but it was soft, and warm.  She'd been having bad dreams since getting here, though, and now she just couldn't get back to sleep.  Her dreams with full of the faces of the men who'd attacked her.  She'd been so scared, and then hurt.  She'd been sure she was going to die.

Her Papa had saved her, but even as he'd been treating her wounds she'd been pulled away from him, waking in an alien place.  It looked so strange, the people were all so different.  They were nice!  That was wonderful, but she was homesick.  She wanted her Papa.

Blinking back tears she got up and went down the hall to Lea's room.  He'd taken her in, looked after her, made sure she was safe and fed.  She stood at the door for a long time, kind of tugging at the shirt he'd found for her to sleep in.  It was as long as a dress on her.  He was so nice, but would he be okay with her in his room?  In his bed?  She just wanted to be held, to feel strong arms around her, even if it wasn't her Papa's arms.  And so finally she stepped across the room, around the bed, and crawled up onto the bed.

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[hotheadwarmheart]

"Yeah," Lea said. "You and most other people here."

"But look on the bright side," he said. "You get to make lots of new friends and have new adventures in a place where no one is going to be after you for what you are. Plus, think of all the cool stories you'll have to tell your Papa and your friends when you go back. Even if they don't quite believe them, they'll still be fun to tell. Right?"

[mercury_gaze]

That thought does put a little smile on her face. She...she does have friends here. “It’s just me and Papa. Papa would believe me, I’m sure he would.”

She pulls a breath and lets it out in a huff, snuggling close, tucking her face against Lea’s chest. “I miss him. My Papa...”

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Well there you go then," Lea says. "I'm sure he'll love to hear about all the adventures you had here, and about all the things you'll learn. Cause there's always something new to learn around here, lemme tell ya."

When she snuggles against him, lea just settles his arms around her a little more comfortably. "Yeah," he says. "I miss my friends too. But even if we're far away from each other, our hearts are always connected. Just like yours and your Papa's."

[mercury_gaze]

She considers for a moment before speaking again. “I don’t even know how I’d try to tell about this place. I mean, it’s huge, and flat, but not flat, and sharp, and...I don’t know. It’s so unnatural. But not in a bad way. I wonder if all cities are like this.”

The thought of still being connected to her Papa put a little smile on her face. The thought of being so connected with the friends she’d made here made her happy too.

[hotheadwarmheart]

"Well, cities are kinda unnatural by definition," Lea says. "But some try to include more nature than others. Like, when I was a kid, I lived in a city called Radiant Garden. And it lived up to its name too. Lots of fountains, and flower gardens, and beautiful stonework... It was a great place to live."

"Malificent kinda wrecked it when she took over, though, and for a long time, the place was so infested with Heartless that no one could live there," Lea continues. "But thanks to Sora and his friends, the worst of the Heartless were cleared out, and people could move back in. And ever since then, they've been working hard to rebuild it and make it beautiful again."

"Who knows?", he adds gently as he relaxes with Jendayi. "Maybe it'll be even better than it was before."