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wyntir_knightAnd I am continuing with my new attempt to write something every day. The theory is that the more I write, the better I will become at writing the small things.
Title: Son's Duty
Fandom: TMNT (2003)
Characters: Donatello
Prompt: 003 - End
Word Count: 172
Rating: T
Summary: Donatello does his duty toward his father.
Author's Notes: Mentions of character death.
He lies on the thin pallet he always insisted on using, smaller than I have ever remembered him being. His robes just hang off of him; rather than hiding his frail form, they accentuate it. He looks like he hasn’t eaten in months, like he’s some kind of Holocaust survivor, and there’s nothing that I can do to help him. I come in here every day; I feed him, make sure he’s clean and comfortable, keep him company, read to him. My brothers won’t help. No, that’s not fair; they can’t help. None of them can handle this. Leo feels that he’s failed, Raph is just angry, and Mikey, Mikey is taking this hardest of all. None of them are able to deal with any of it, and so it falls to me to care for my father. It falls to me to sit with him and watch him die; knowing that with all with all my science and all my knowledge there is nothing that I can do to stop this.
Title: Son's Duty
Fandom: TMNT (2003)
Characters: Donatello
Prompt: 003 - End
Word Count: 172
Rating: T
Summary: Donatello does his duty toward his father.
Author's Notes: Mentions of character death.
He lies on the thin pallet he always insisted on using, smaller than I have ever remembered him being. His robes just hang off of him; rather than hiding his frail form, they accentuate it. He looks like he hasn’t eaten in months, like he’s some kind of Holocaust survivor, and there’s nothing that I can do to help him. I come in here every day; I feed him, make sure he’s clean and comfortable, keep him company, read to him. My brothers won’t help. No, that’s not fair; they can’t help. None of them can handle this. Leo feels that he’s failed, Raph is just angry, and Mikey, Mikey is taking this hardest of all. None of them are able to deal with any of it, and so it falls to me to care for my father. It falls to me to sit with him and watch him die; knowing that with all with all my science and all my knowledge there is nothing that I can do to stop this.