Apart from the Ocean 11
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estiriseHere's part 11 of "Apart from the Ocean".
Title: Apart from the Ocean (part 11)
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estirose
Fandom: Kamen Rider Kiva
Words: ~650
Characters: Shinoda Aya (OC), Kuramae Noboru (OC), Ramon
Warnings/Rating: 13+/PG-13
Prompt: Table 2, prompt: Heart
Summary: Aya has to live with the fact that monsters don't think like humans.
Author's Notes: I'm hoping to use as many of the 25 prompts as I can for one story, and am therefore designating parts as I go along. Any left over prompts will be used as snapshots on Aya's life. Since the characters are Japanese, I've used Japanese name order here. The universe itself belongs to Toei and TV-Asahi, as does the original version of Kuramae Noboru.
More often than not, when her father was not in his side of the pool attempting to father children on some human woman or other, he was in Aya's room, despite her protestations. The lack of door lock, which had been only a minor annoyance when she'd only had to deal with Dr. Hamagaki and her technicians, had become a point of stress. She realized there was not much for him to do in his own room, but it didn't mean he could invade her privacy instead.
Of course, by Merman standards, being his daughter meant that he could do exactly that. From her studies of both worlds, privacy was pretty non-existant in Merman society at best. It really didn't matter if she was dressing or what - and he had walked in while she was naked once or twice.
And he didn't sleep, either, and she did, which meant that she could find him playing around on the computer at any hour. Or she'd woken up with him cuddled next to her - which would have been cute had he not been her father.
Once, she'd even woken up across the way, halfway into the water, with her father sitting there, having decided she didn't get in the water enough. She needed to have a heart-to-heart talk with him, but she kept putting it off.
By Merman standards, she was a human. If she'd been fullblood... well, if she'd been fullblood she'd still be in the Merman equivalent of diapers, to be sure. But if she'd been nearly into her second century, she'd be having her first kids. That's how Merman society worked. There were some roles that didn't require motherhood, but her father had been correct; if she had been the Merman equivalent of twenty, she should have started reproducing. And if Kuramae-san's sister's research had been correct, the Merman Clan hadn't believed in marriage. She'd have ended up having a child fathered by whoever reached her when she was in heat.
All the good reason not to go into heat, or into the water other than what she was required to do for her body. The scientists had given her the amount of time they thought was optimum for her body, and she didn't intend to be in there any more than she had to.
"We should go and see the others," her father said.
"Others?" she asked. She remembered that there had been a Franken and a Wolfen and their kids, but she didn't know he'd been in contact with them. She'd assumed they'd split the three fullbloods apart and examined them.
"They have a room here," her father said. "It's nice, it lets us get together. And it has windows!"
"But not an ocean," she said. "We've traded freedom for stability. We're bound in here." At least she hadn't chosen captivity, her father apparently had.
Her father frowned. "We will get out of here, Aya," he said, certainty in his tone. Aya blinked at him. "But we'll use the Fangaire first to restart our kind."
"They'll never let us go," she said.
Her father took her hands, and looked at her with deep, dark eyes. He was silent, but she understood the look, somehow. Her father wanted to be at the facility as much as she did. He just wasn't beyond using people to get his way.
After all, that's what he'd done to her mother.
"What about the Wolfen and the Franken?" she asked.
Her father shrugged. "We'll all leave together and make our homes here. Hey, at least these people won't kill us on sight!"
She wondered if he realized that the Fangaire were only accepted because they didn't kill humans. That was the gist of what she'd read, anyway.
Title: Apart from the Ocean (part 11)
Author:
estiroseFandom: Kamen Rider Kiva
Words: ~650
Characters: Shinoda Aya (OC), Kuramae Noboru (OC), Ramon
Warnings/Rating: 13+/PG-13
Prompt: Table 2, prompt: Heart
Summary: Aya has to live with the fact that monsters don't think like humans.
Author's Notes: I'm hoping to use as many of the 25 prompts as I can for one story, and am therefore designating parts as I go along. Any left over prompts will be used as snapshots on Aya's life. Since the characters are Japanese, I've used Japanese name order here. The universe itself belongs to Toei and TV-Asahi, as does the original version of Kuramae Noboru.
More often than not, when her father was not in his side of the pool attempting to father children on some human woman or other, he was in Aya's room, despite her protestations. The lack of door lock, which had been only a minor annoyance when she'd only had to deal with Dr. Hamagaki and her technicians, had become a point of stress. She realized there was not much for him to do in his own room, but it didn't mean he could invade her privacy instead.
Of course, by Merman standards, being his daughter meant that he could do exactly that. From her studies of both worlds, privacy was pretty non-existant in Merman society at best. It really didn't matter if she was dressing or what - and he had walked in while she was naked once or twice.
And he didn't sleep, either, and she did, which meant that she could find him playing around on the computer at any hour. Or she'd woken up with him cuddled next to her - which would have been cute had he not been her father.
Once, she'd even woken up across the way, halfway into the water, with her father sitting there, having decided she didn't get in the water enough. She needed to have a heart-to-heart talk with him, but she kept putting it off.
By Merman standards, she was a human. If she'd been fullblood... well, if she'd been fullblood she'd still be in the Merman equivalent of diapers, to be sure. But if she'd been nearly into her second century, she'd be having her first kids. That's how Merman society worked. There were some roles that didn't require motherhood, but her father had been correct; if she had been the Merman equivalent of twenty, she should have started reproducing. And if Kuramae-san's sister's research had been correct, the Merman Clan hadn't believed in marriage. She'd have ended up having a child fathered by whoever reached her when she was in heat.
All the good reason not to go into heat, or into the water other than what she was required to do for her body. The scientists had given her the amount of time they thought was optimum for her body, and she didn't intend to be in there any more than she had to.
"We should go and see the others," her father said.
"Others?" she asked. She remembered that there had been a Franken and a Wolfen and their kids, but she didn't know he'd been in contact with them. She'd assumed they'd split the three fullbloods apart and examined them.
"They have a room here," her father said. "It's nice, it lets us get together. And it has windows!"
"But not an ocean," she said. "We've traded freedom for stability. We're bound in here." At least she hadn't chosen captivity, her father apparently had.
Her father frowned. "We will get out of here, Aya," he said, certainty in his tone. Aya blinked at him. "But we'll use the Fangaire first to restart our kind."
"They'll never let us go," she said.
Her father took her hands, and looked at her with deep, dark eyes. He was silent, but she understood the look, somehow. Her father wanted to be at the facility as much as she did. He just wasn't beyond using people to get his way.
After all, that's what he'd done to her mother.
"What about the Wolfen and the Franken?" she asked.
Her father shrugged. "We'll all leave together and make our homes here. Hey, at least these people won't kill us on sight!"
She wondered if he realized that the Fangaire were only accepted because they didn't kill humans. That was the gist of what she'd read, anyway.
