She Was From America

Walks into his embrace like it was built for her, her arms tuck under his, criss cross over his upper back and hold onto his shoulders, somehow pulling and pushing him closer to her at the same time.

He's warm, he's comfortable. He's safe.

She wants to stay,

Dr Stone fiction

Ship: Saionji Ukyou x oc Sarah Callit

Word Count: 263

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Chicken Tacos.

An unsuspecting dish.

One of Sarah’s favorites, actually. The cheese, corn, tomatoes, just, everything mixed in together made her tastebuds so happy. So, she was pretty excited when she got home to the smell of chicken and spices cooking.

The excitement dissipated when the tacos brought bad news.

“We’re… moving?”

“I’m being relocated, we’re heading back to the states.” Her father confirmed,

“How long?”

“Three months,”

Sarah loved the ocean, yet the cold wave that crashed over her was wildly unwelcome.

Silence followed her fathers words, and her parents didn’t push.

This was the longest they had ever been somewhere. From almost the day Sarah was born, she had been carted off to one place or another. Spain when she was three, Italy when she turned six.

When she turned eight they moved to Germany, and only two years later they’d landed in Japan, where she struggled with the language, making friends, doing… anything.

Ukyo.

It wasn’t quite setting in that before long, she wouldn’t get to see him every day. That they wouldn’t go to school together, that he wouldn’t help her with math while she lifted weights, suddenly, every simple thing they did felt precious, like a stone she wanted, needed to protect.

Sarah went to bed quietly that night, sick to her stomach, slightly numb, still not fully comprehending what this move meant.

After six long years in Japan, she would be leaving the country that had given her the most grief, yet the best friend.

Suddenly, Sarah didn’t like chicken tacos anymore.

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Ukyo x oc Sarah Callit

451 words

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Revelations come in all shapes and sizes.

Maybe… probably?

This revelation smacked Sarah across the face and asked her for her lunch money, on a perfectly ordinary summer day.

One minute she was happy, life was simple, she wasn’t overthinking anything.

The next minute…“Uhm, hey Ukyo?”

The two were, once again sitting in her room. Well, standing. He was spotting her on the bench press, (So, she’s a bit spoiled, her father was so excited when she said she wanted to join the navy that he bought her a full weight set.)

“Hmm? Are you ready to stop?” He asked, his hands reaching out, ready to grab the weight from her.

Sarah and Ukyo’s eyes were the same color, startlingly so.

As a child, especially in Japan, she hated her eye color, she was convinced no one would have the same color as her, and that they’d stand out. Then Ukyo happened. Ugh, Ukyo keeps happening.

Right now, with about 80 pounds in her grasp, and eyes who only looked beautiful on him somehow, Sarah looked up.

He was so calm, he wasn’t smiling brightly, just, calmly. Like he was at ease, comfortable, just happy. She felt her heartbeat change, it felt like a squirrel or mouse scattered across it. That had been happening a few months now, and it typically coincided with Ukyo.

At first she thought she had high blood pressure or something and got her dad to take her to the doctor, but they said she was totally fine, nothing abnormal about her heart whatsoever.

Plenty abnormal about the boy who holds it though.

Gross, didn’t mean to think that.

Sarah lifted the barbell back up into the hooks and sat up,

“Are we dating?”

Statue.

Ukyo, this time instead of Ukyo happening to Sarah, Sarah happened to Ukyo.

For a solid ten seconds, he was as still as a stone statue. In a way it was funny, she almost laughed that she’d taken him by surprise, but understanding the situation she’d just put him in, and feeling the heat that slowly rose up her own face, she opted out.

“I don’t think so?” He finally answered, brows raised at her words.

“Really? I feel like we already do a lot of the same things that people do when they date.” She followed up thoughtfully.

“I mean, we never said anything about it, but that doesn’t mean we can’t.” Ukyo observed,

“Huh,” Sarah nodded, looking down at the ground, “It sounds like we’re silent dating,” Then, back up to Ukyo her eyes went, “Do you wanna date?”

Without missing a beat, Ukyo nodded, that familiar, calm little smile on his face.

“Sure.”

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Kohaku suggested that perhaps the person was just excited,

She then asked Sarah what she does when she's excited as an example.

Sarah: ...

Ukyo: at the radar grinning,

Sarah: "I... don't get excited."

Kohaku: "you don't get excited? Everyone gets excited about something right?"

Ukyo: "Well,"

Ukyo: "I suppose you could say Sarah has happy aggression."

Sarah: "This is the reason I started hiding my emotions even more, it's so embarrassing."

Ukyo: "she built a 3d puzzle ship once and was so excited that she crushed it within seconds of finishing it."

Sarah: Face red "I get so much energy, it's like an implosion, it just... shoots out of me and usually results in unexpected violence."

Ship: Ukyo Saionji x oc Sarah Callit

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Defeat was a painful sensation.

No matter what she did, how hard she tried, how much of her heart she poured into it, she just couldn't grasp what she was reaching for.

It felt like the Japanese language debacle, but part 2, the return of the struggle bus, two tokens a rider.

Sounded funny in her head, honestly any other day she'd have smiled or laughed at herself over that. Ukyo had picked a random movie neither of them were interested in, her head rested on his shoulder, the one he'd offered her to cry on because he knew nothing else would do anything for her or her feelings. She occasionally buried her face in the fabric of his t shirt, clearly trying to hide her shaking breaths and teary eyes.

Her arms felt both heavy and light at the same time, like nothing was there at all. She tried to stay awake, she really tried. But between the sense of failure, and the weight in her chest, she just couldn't manage it all together. Her body took pity on her, and slipped her into exhaustion, and unconsciousness.

And Ukyo stayed exactly where she was, knowing that Sarah finally got the rest she needed.

Sometimes the most miniscule things can pop the bubble of positivity and confidence a person holds. Sarah's popped today,

So tomorrow, Ukyo would have to get her a new bubble, and watch with pride as she made it bigger than last time.

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Dr. STONE (Anime & Manga) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Saionji Ukyou/Original Female Character(s) Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Characters, Saionji Ukyou, Asagiri Gen Additional Tags: Childhood Friends, Romance, Long-Distance Relationship, Family, Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Military Backstory, Navy, episodic Summary:

Before the stone world, during the stone world, after the stone world. An expansive period of time full of clues, stories, and science.

Now that we've reached after the stone world, perhaps it's time to tell the 101st tale. The story of humanity's backup plan, and how a small foreign girl, and little boy learning English, somehow survived the end of the world, and found their way back to each other.

Introductuon: Gen.

Thirty seven hundred years ago.

Humanity turned to stone…

But! You all know that story!

Yes, it’s true. In June of 2019 this green light cascaded over earth like an unwanted star show, then thousands of years later, after everything humanity built had crumbled to dust or just wore away, fell apart, all that yada yada. Then a teenager named Senku revived and only a short twenty or so years later we figured out the cause of this mysterious light was a technological alien race on the moon who miscalculated our intelligence levels apparently.

But we’ve already heard that tale, now people are being revived left and right, civilization is being rebuilt as we speak and the greatest minds of our generation are returning to reclaim what was once lost.

With a protagonist like Ishigami Senku, however, you don’t really get a lot of the juicy details that really know how to captivate a crowd. Everyone likes a good love story! And Senku’s only true love is the art of science, which results in some impressive tales, of course. But still, as a fan of a good story, I, Asagiri Gen, am here to share with you a different tale.

A tale of before our stone age, a tale of…

Humanity’s backup plan.

It starts, many years before the petrification date.With a little girl from America who’d traveled the world, and a little boy from Japan who was interested in learning English.