Berlin

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This was originally written in German at like 11 at night a month and a half ago. Anyway, I forgot to move it over here, and if you happen to speak German, that version's on AO3.

Cairo waits. And then he waits some more.

He looks at his watch. Mother is late. But not too late yet. Not yet.

He should go. He knows that he should go. But he can't go. He wants to wait. He wants to stay here.

He's waited for so long. His mom's been planning this for so long. But that plan's useless without mother here.

Mother can come here. Through the door. Now!

But Cairo waits more. He has a lot of worries now.

Maybe he should really go. And then everything can just stay the same. Everything was ok when Cairo was with his mom. But he hasn't seen Mother in so long.

He looks at his watch again, and he can't decide.

He has to go. He can't go.

It isn't too late. Mother has ti—

Cairo doesn't have a choice anymore. He goes with Mother. And now everything is different.

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