Zinnia (cowt9, week 6, M3 - 200 parole)

[hakurenshi]

Big, round multicolored zinnias for Yuki.

If he has to describe a place he knows very well, that wouldn't be his former house, nor the places he worked at in the past; not his current apartment and not even the small agency that made re:vale come back from the ashes. It would be easy to say that it is somewhere familiar he shared with Momo, but the truth is that what Yuki has been accustomed to for a very, very long time are darkness and loneliness and sadness. He never forgot how it felt when Banri went away without a word just because now they are reunited - somehow he thinks that one of the reasons why he can be so happy with Momo and with having him in his life is exactly because he never forgot. It felt awful, and wrong; he thought he could die (in fact, he wanted to) and suddenly the world that was only black and white became colorful once again, and felt warm, right.

That is how happiness sounds to him now: Momo's voice and presence next to him and the old Banri in his memories.

Zinnia is the nostalgia for an old friend.