Fell Through The Ice -- Charlie Drabbles

[audreyii_fic]

Title: Fell Through The Ice (Incomplete Charlie Drabbles)
Author: audreyii_fic
Fandom: Twilight (Team Jacob)
Rating: M
Characters: Swan Family, Black Family, Clearwater Family
Genre: Humor/Angst
Warnings: Language. Heartfail.

Summary:
Thoughts on Charlie's life.

Notes:
The Twilight Illustrated Guide comes out today (coinciding with the sinking of the

Comments

December 1988

[audreyii_fic]

The ringing phone wakes you with a start; you grab the reciever off your nightstand, expecting the station. "Charlie Swan."

"Charlie?"

It takes you a moment to recognize the sick, slurred voice. "Billy? Is that you?"

"Charlie, man, can you come get me? I can't drive." Billy's words are running together. A quick glance at the clock tells you it's just after three in the morning.

"Uh, sure." You're already getting out of bed, blinking the sleep out of your eyes. Billy doesn't pull shit like this; something has to be seriously wrong. "Where are you?" He gives you directions for some bar a ways to the north, near the Makah reservation, and you're out the door in ten minutes.

Billy's sitting on the bumper of his car in the restaurant parking lot when you arrive, his forearms resting on his knees and his head hanging. When he sees you drive up in the cruiser, he stands and staggers -- staggers -- towards the passenger's side door. He gets in and the smell of cigarette smoke and whiskey rolls over you, stinging your nostrils

Re: December 1988

[daintress]

I can totally see it happening that way. *sigh*

Re: December 1988

[audreyii_fic]

It's never occurred to me that Billy would be able to carry on an actual affair; based on his personality, I really think he'd be too in love with Sarah for that. But mistakes happen.