Prompt: nursing an abandoned baby chick back to health
Content: Fluff, light angst, friends to lovers
Warnings: non-graphic mentions of blood and injuries (animal)
Summary: Set before Emma was appointed as Belle.
Rio finds a wounded baby chick in the outskirts of town, and nursing it back to health brings him and Emma closer.
Word count: 1.7k
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A/N: First Rio fic~ In celebration of his route trailer <3
Emma was helping her father unload a few bundles of books from the carriage he had arrived in when Rio came back to the shop. She had found it odd how he wasn’t anywhere to be found at home when she woke up, and couldn’t help the sting of uneasiness that throbbed in her chest. What if he had gained his memory back and he had left without saying goodbye? Whenever these thoughts appeared, she could never dismiss them with a simple “Rio is not like that” because, who was Rio, really? What if the ever cheerful and considerate Rio was only a product of his amnesia? What if gaining his memories back meant he turned into a different person, his real self?
“Having you wish me happy birthday again this year makes me so happy, I just might pass out. I want to hug, kiss, and give you so much love so ……come closer?”
