Everything Is Alright [Drabble, Death Note] (original) (raw)

Title: Everything Is Alright
Fandom: Death Note
Characters/Pairings: Blink and you'll miss it Beyond Birthday/Female!A (After Apocalypse).
Rating: PG
Status: Drabble
Word Count: 271
Summary: For A, life was currently in the "lie" cycle.
Disclaimer: The original Death Note concept belongs to Tsugumi Ohba, and Takeshi Obata, while Beyond Birthday and A belongs to Nishio Ishin. However, I do own this story.
Notes: Written on a random suicidal whim while sneaking on the computer do not take my sleepy drabbles srsly bbs. Also, new layout. <3

Life was a never ending cycle; it smiled, it spun, it turned, it lied, and it started all over again.

For A, life was currently stuck in the lie cycle, in which, should anyone ask A the question (”Are you feeling fine?”), she would simply smile and nod, pushing her black rimmed glasses up the bridge of her nose and a stray strand of brown hair behind her ears before responding.

“Oh, yes, I feel just fine. Thank you!”

The fake, fake smile would never leave her lips for a second.

And then… Then the door would close, and Alternative (never once After Apocalypse) would go back to being A, and A would go back to work, satisfied with her blatant lie. Picture after picture and hour after hour and skipping meal after meal, A is not surprised at all when B (shy, frail, quasi-neurotic, yet not quite there Backup) is forced to barge into her room and drag her away from work and back into reality.

(She still stashes a few photos in her jacket when he does.)

He gives her that look that Alternative (A does not exist out of the case, and After Apocalypse does not exist at all) knows means trouble; she already knows what it means before he even opens his mouth to speak.

“Someday A will be… Someday After will be fine; B knows.”

And then she doesn’t know what to say until, of course, the words are coming out of her mouth and, A being A and Alternative being Alternative, she expects to find nothing other than a _lie_--

“Yes, all will be fine, someday…”

--but finds the truth instead.

And the cycle finally moves on.