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Part 9 of a bruabba ficlet collection
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Little Dreamers' All-Night Sad Café: Antipasti
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2024-10-05
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memory (a july tiny fic)

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Carrying a memory, however sweet, can be a heavy burden, and the risk of forgetting it—a name, a scent—an even heavier one. But Bruno’s boyfriend has an exceptional ability to remember, as strong as he is physically, and will gladly make that burden much lighter.

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Bruno’s hands trembled as he held a bottle containing a greenish liquid. He then took off the cap and sprayed the tiniest amount on a handkerchief - and as the scent rose to his nostrils, he couldn’t help but sob into Leone’s chest. 

 

“These are happy tears,” he rasped after a while. “I promise.”

 

Leone smiled: the bottle held his father’s cologne, long discontinued. 

 

“Where did you find it brand new?!”

 

“eBay,” Leone grinned sagely. 

 

“And how did you even remember? I told you ages ago!” 

 

“Same reason I eat the same shit every day,” he smiled again. “It’s nice sometimes.”

Notes:

this was inspired by two things:

- my dad’s last bottle of cologne that I took after he died. for some godforsaken reason he’d just happened to be on his last few drops of smelly water, so the bottle I have has nearly nothing left 🙃

- the fact that as an autistic person my memory is so precise that I worry it can come across as creepy, not as in supernatural or “genius” creepy but as in *stalker* creepy. I don’t mean to make a particularly strong effort to remember certain bits of information… but the right person will be able to appreciate it and take pride in it. sometimes being like this isn’t too bad 🥲

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