FAKE Drabble: Haunted

[bk_forever]

Title: Haunted

Fandom: FAKE

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Ryo, mentions his parents.

Rating: PG

Setting: Vol. 5, Act 14.

Summary: Sometimes it’s better to never learn the truth.

Word Count: A drabble - 100 words exactly

Written For: Challenge 105: Amnesty at fan_flashworks, using Challenge #98: Haunted

Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.

Ryo didn’t believe in ghosts, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t haunted. Even ten years on, his parents’ murder cast a shadow over his life. It was their deaths that had made him decide to become a cop, hoping someday he might solve the case himself, learn who had killed them and why.

He’d naively thought getting the answers to his questions would give him some sort of closure. He couldn’t have been more wrong; the truth was tearing him apart. He’d known they weren’t drug smugglers, but hearing they’d been slaughtered by mistake…

He’d been better of not knowing.

The End

Comments

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

Sometimes ignorance really is bliss.

[bk_forever]

As Ryo has discovered. No wonder he was so messed up after finding out.

Thank you.

[nightchild78.livejournal.com]

Human mind needs reasons and purpose in order to get closure. Knowing that there is no valid reason for his loss makes his situation even more tragic. You capured it very well.

[bk_forever]

Thank you. Not knowing was eating him up, but knowing just shows how senseless and unnecessary hids loss really was. There's no comfort in knowing the truth this time.