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Nope!  Not published anyway.  I started a snipped of one, might still be on the computer…

 

Ah, it was a false start for Uploaded On…; I’ll put it here since I’m not sure if I’ll do anything else with it or not.

 

 

When it’s all said and done, they bring Haruka home from the hospital to the red brick house, now nicely modified by Seto to be as wheelchair-friendly as a two-story building with no elevator can be.  He still can’t go upstairs, but they’ve moved everything but the bedrooms and the second bathroom downstairs, and they don’t have the budget for an elevator yet.  They’re saving up for one, though, because while the doctors are more optimistic now about treatments for his heart condition, they’re also hesitant about putting his body through the stress of the rehab he’d need to get back muscle tone in his legs after his “coma.”  Haruka, himself, isn’t sure how to feel about the possibility of using a wheelchair long-term or even permanently, but he’s pretty okay with the idea of not dying during physical therapy, so he’s focusing on that for now.

 

He’s not entirely sure who the red brick house actually belongs to, now–possibly, it’s Ayano’s. Everyone lives there a little bit, though. Ayano and Takane are the only permanent residents.  Shintarou is doing his best to move, but Haruka can see how hard just being outside is for him sometimes.  And Ayano’s siblings seem to love and hate the house by turns; after a few months, they settle into a pattern of visiting rather than staying over.  Mary, most of all, acts like a guest–Haruka thinks that seeing the siblings fall into old patterns with Ayano makes her feel just a bit outside.  The red brick house is also where Hibiya and Hiyori stay, on the rare occasions they come up.  

 

It’s a good home, and Haruka loves it, but sometimes, in the middle of the day, when he’s got nothing to do, the others are all out, and he knows that scrolling the web isn’t going to satisfy him the way it does Shintarou–it feels lonely.

 

And then, for his first birthday after coming back, Momo and Seto pool their funds to buy him a Wacom tablet, and Shintarou absently reminds him that he used to have a pixiv account.

 

He doesn’t remember the pixiv account, but Takane kind of does, and Shintarou’s good at this sort of thing, so the three of them track it down and manage to get into it, and within a week Haruka’s account is as resurrected as he is.

 

(Kano’s sense of humor is rubbing off a little, maybe.)

 

He rereads some of the manga that he bookmarked fanart for, because his memories of most of them are blurry.  He approves of his younger self’s taste, mostly, though he’s a little embarrassed by some of it.

 

And then, while checking out some of the newer art, he finds a speedpaint, and thinks, I want to do that.  

 

In retrospect, that is exactly when it starts.