Odds Are
Odds Are
-written for tea_dumplins' drabble challenge
Odds are he wouldn’t be alive in ten years. He didn’t need carefully calculated statistics to know the probability of someone in his occupation living past the age of forty was slim to none. His was a risky business and any rational gambler wouldn’t put money on that underdog, it was too often a losing bet. No, sir, the game of chance he played on a daily basis steered him towards an abrupt, bloody ending full of bullet holes and knife wounds.
But there is just one thing Fate hadn’t accounted for, a detail carelessly overlooked: Jayne Cobb always cheats.
-written for tea_dumplins' drabble challenge
Odds are he wouldn’t be alive in ten years. He didn’t need carefully calculated statistics to know the probability of someone in his occupation living past the age of forty was slim to none. His was a risky business and any rational gambler wouldn’t put money on that underdog, it was too often a losing bet. No, sir, the game of chance he played on a daily basis steered him towards an abrupt, bloody ending full of bullet holes and knife wounds.
But there is just one thing Fate hadn’t accounted for, a detail carelessly overlooked: Jayne Cobb always cheats.