Fic: What Deaths We Daren’t Dream (1/1)
Title: What Deaths We Daren’t Dream
Rating: PG
Character: Richard/Ben
Word Count: 108
Summary: This is the one sacrifice he will not survive. For the lost_in_108 Challenge #29: Sacrifice. General Spoilers through Season Six.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot.
Author’s Notes: Apparently, I'm keen on writing lost_in_108 drabbles, even if they're not on my list. Even if I shouldn't be. *facepalm*
What Deaths We Daren’t Dream
The blood on his hands constricts him, seeps inside the creases of his palm until the very trembling in his limbs is stilled by the cool, the chill of wetness, of red as it dries against the breeze, and the tears fall, evaporate before they reach the line of his jaw, the dip of his chin.
He never thought he’d see the day those eyes -- dark-rimmed and deeper than the ocean stirring around them, encroaching -- would dim eternal, fixed skyward forevermore: Richard, the name throbs hard against his ribs, cracking -- breaking; the one sacrifice this place could ask of him that he’d never had a hope of surviving.
Rating: PG
Character: Richard/Ben
Word Count: 108
Summary: This is the one sacrifice he will not survive. For the lost_in_108 Challenge #29: Sacrifice. General Spoilers through Season Six.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot.
Author’s Notes: Apparently, I'm keen on writing lost_in_108 drabbles, even if they're not on my list. Even if I shouldn't be. *facepalm*
What Deaths We Daren’t Dream
The blood on his hands constricts him, seeps inside the creases of his palm until the very trembling in his limbs is stilled by the cool, the chill of wetness, of red as it dries against the breeze, and the tears fall, evaporate before they reach the line of his jaw, the dip of his chin.
He never thought he’d see the day those eyes -- dark-rimmed and deeper than the ocean stirring around them, encroaching -- would dim eternal, fixed skyward forevermore: Richard, the name throbs hard against his ribs, cracking -- breaking; the one sacrifice this place could ask of him that he’d never had a hope of surviving.