My Carnation - Dr.Stone FanFiction - 1215

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𝓈𝓉𝓇𝑒𝓃𝑔𝓉𝒽 𝑜𝒻 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝑒𝓇

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After the village burned, the cold began to settle in. I got warmer clothes early because I could hardly sleep from how much I was shivering, and even though the old women of the village that made my outfit told me I was cute being so sensitive to the cold, it just made me feel weak.
Senku and the village began a brand new project, a cell phone, for now that Hyoga was headed back to tell Tsukasa that Gen was a traitor, he would most likely attack in the spring - right when we would be most unprepared from resting in the winter.
The risk of getting sick in the cold was great, so of course we should be staying inside - but we weren't. Senku made stoves for the people to put in their huts and with the medicine we had, we could relax. As we worked through the cold and I did my best to stay on my feet mentally, the only good memory I had driving me forward was that late night in fall.

Gen approached me and snapped me out of my distant thoughts, something only Senku or Kohaku had done since that moment, and all he did was hold out cotton candy.
"I... don't really..."
"Your eyes just lit up, even just slightly, I saw it."
I took the stick and just stared at it. The problem wasn't that I wasn't hungry. It was that I knew if I ate this, I'd probably start crying.
"It's okay. No one can see if you're turned away like this. Besides, they're all heading home for the night."
"I don't want to be sad anymore."
He placed a firm hand on my shoulder, "It's not wrong to be sad. Keeping it in isn't going to make it go away."
It was a silent cry. The sweetness melted in my mouth and so did my heart in my chest. The cold wind coming in after the raging fires didn't burn so much when I realized Gen was seeing me. The real me, and he was accepting me anyways.

Now, there was snow on the ground and I spent most of my free time with the kids of the village, teaching them games from the modern world. I made uno cards and even got the whole village surrounding me as I walked Chrome and Kohaku through what to do as they played. That was a good memory too, when Gen approached me and smiled, saying so gently as if anything louder than that would make me flinch... which, it probably would,
"It's impressive the way you gathered everyone together. You're a good teacher."
"Not really. I learn hands on, so that's the only way I can teach."
"But it's working, isn't it? Just look around you."
When I did, I think that was the first time I realized how beautiful life really was. Everyone was smiling and laughing and the sun light was glimmering off the surface of the snow around them. And there I stood, in the center of it all.

In present time, the light from the Christmas tree Senku set up felt like it lit up the whole world. I almost forgot Christmas was even a thing. Months ago, I once begged God to help me. Now, the legacy of one of his prophet sons stood right in front of me in the form of a beautiful tree.
"Decorative lighting. I feel like I'm back in the modern world."
When I stared into the light, I could almost hear the constant murmuring that hundreds if not millions of people would leave just in a mile radius of where I would stand on the city streets. Around this same time in the modern world, those lame songs about this being the most wonderful time of the year would play over and over until it convinced you that if you were sad, you were wrong to be.
"It took us two months to get here."
Senku smiled, "We're right on time."
Gen gasped slightly, and I glanced over to him for a second as he sputtered, "Is today... Christmas?!" The light glimmering off of his dark eyes, his pale skin glowing.
He was really pretty.