Void
By – Hime no Ichigo

Genre: Angst
Rating: G
Pairing: HAZUKI Nagisa x RYUUGAZAKI Rei (implied)
Story Type: Drabble
Summary: What if—Rei is no longer with him?

Disclaimer: Free! is the intellectual property of Kyoto Animation.

Notes: This is from this week's theme: "distance". I'm pretty sure it won't turn out like this in the anime okay. Err, spoilers for episode 5 if you haven't watched it yet?

Other Notes: The distance Rei jogs to school is based off of the distance between Ooiwa Station and Iwami Station (Iwatobi Station in the series), of the San'in Main Line. I don't recall reading anything specific about which direction he's jogging in, so this was based on inferences I drew from the anime.

One-point-five centimetres, that was the width of those red glasses.

His head reached the tip of his ear, a difference of eleven centimetres to the top of the mop of blue hair.

In Rei-chan's words, there was fifty centimetres from the surface of the pool to the starting block – plenty of room for a beautiful dive.

Nagisa would never, ever forget when he saw with his own eyes how Rei was terrifyingly beautiful, hands letting go as he vaulted over the four metre high bar. Nor would he ever forget the first time they jogged together – him panting by the end of the two-point-nine kilometres, when Rei didn't look phased at all. He had been really jealous.

And he had looked forward to the day they could swim relay, fight for a trophy deserving of Iwatobi, in a fifty metres long pool.

Nagisa hates remembering all these details.

He hates it, because there's a far greater distance between the two of them now, and there's nothing he can do about it. No matter how much he calls, phones, waits – he won't get an answer.

- Owari -

Authoress' Notes: OTL