Sunshine (Frerard)

Chapter 6

"Gee?" Frank asked from where he sat next to Gerard at the kitchen table. Gerard had printed some colouring sheets and Frank was having a wonderful time, scribbling various colours out of the lines every now and again; he held the crayons wrong and Gerard had tried to fix it, but he insisted that was for 'big boys only' so he left it alone.

"Yes, sunshine?" He replied, typing up a poor excuse of a report for work.

"Whatcha doin'?" His heels clipped the chair with a small thump from where his legs were swinging.

"I'm just working, Prince, I'll be done soon."

"I work too." Frank muttered, picking up a red crayon and clumsily scratching in the colour of the fur on the puppy. "See?"

"Very good, honey." Gerard said as he took his eyes off of the screen to look at Frank's 'work'.

They sat in silence again, but that only lasted around five minutes until another thought popped into Frank's mind.

"Gee?"

"Yeah, Frankie?"

"Has you got a Mommy 'n' a Daddy?" He asked, still not looking away from his colouring.

"Yeah I have, why?" Gerard stopped typing and turned his full attention to Frank.

"'Cause I a special boy with no Mommy 'n' Daddy," he said, pausing to pay attention to the gold circle on the dogs collar, making sure the yellow was bright enough. "Maybe you be the same."

"You have a Mommy and a Daddy, sunshine." Gerard said as he thought of how to explain in a way he'd understand. "They're just very hard to find."

"Nu-uh." He shook his head and kept colouring the collar, choosing green for the details among the purple and yellow, which was an interesting colour scheme but he seemed to be sure of his actions. "Milk?"

"What's the magic word?" Gerard asked, Frank was a lovely, polite little boy but sometimes he was a little socially unaware of common courtesy.

"Pwease." He said, dragging it out to emphasise his point.

"Good boy." Gerard smiled and got up, going to the cupboard to take out a small plastic cup in a light pink, why he owned it he wasn't too sure but it was coming in handy. He filled it with milk from the fridge and set it down by Frank's colouring.

"Thankies." Frank muttered, dropping his green crayon and draining the cup in a matter of seconds; he licked his lips and then proceeded to wipe his mouth on the back of his hand with Gerard lightly chuckling beside him.

He got back to work and finished the report that was due the next morning, procrastinating was his strong suit. Frank had stopped colouring at this point and was drawing something on the back of one of the pages. Gerard hasn't noticed him start doing it but now he was engrossed in his actions to see what he'd come up with. Barely a minute later, Frank smiled and pushed the paper aside, moving onto a picture of a bear playing with a butterfly in the forest.

Gerard looked at the paper and frowned as he tried to distinguish what was there. Drawn crudely by Frank's fisted hands, was a dark room with a small crib pushed into the corner. The door on one side of the page had grey lines slashing across it, supposedly chains, with a large misshapen circle attached to the end, a lock. The whole picture had been scribbled over with black to make it dark and bleak, the only brightness was the light blue blanket on the crib whereas everything else was dull and murky.

"What's this, sunshine?" Gerard asked softly.

"My room at Sir's house!" He said as his usual cheery self. Gerard gazed at the picture for a little while longer, trying to imagine a way in which anyone could find joy in such a dingy, decrepit looking prison, but he couldn't. It amazed him how Frank still had such a bright and happy attitude. He supposed that he had never seen the bad of his situation because he had never seen the good of what he couldn't have.

He looked sadly at the boy sat happily swinging his legs in one of Gerard's old T-shirt's and some pyjama pants that fell off his hips. Frank had been fascinated by the vibrant colours of various comic book characters scattered around on them, begging to put them on even though Gerard insisted that they wouldn't fit. He truly was the most adorable and pure being Gerard had ever come across and he planned to protect him at all costs.