Drabble x 2: Wherever You Might Go / Forever and Ever
Wherever You Might Go
(written for 1-million-words' Word of the Day (05/18/2013): Insouciance. Follows You've Got a Fan in Me.)
The club is packed to the gills.
Stealthy as his Shadow (Danny chooses to call him that) may be, he'll get close in a crowd like this. He'll make mistakes and get spotted, and Danny's certain of it.
So Danny picks a spot at the bar, schools his expression into insouciance and keeps scanning over the men and women parading around like fruits ripe for the easy picking. Any other night he may take home a souvenir, but not tonight.
Tonight he's got a different agenda.
Then Danny sees him, remembering tracing those tattoos with his fingers. Then his tongue.
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Forever and Ever
(written for 1-million-words' Word of the Day: Independent.)
Life goes on.
No more two independent men -- their lives have been fused into one then torn into shreds.
And because Danny's a professional, he clamps down and does his job. It's easier when he buries himself in paperwork. Not having to see the concerned looks on Chin and Kono, he can pretend things haven't changed.
Lacking the strength to pick up the pieces has the advantage of no more falling apart.
But when he drops Grace back at the Edwards residence she whispers in his ear, "Don't be sad, Danno. I'll never leave you."
He breaks all over again.
(written for 1-million-words' Word of the Day (05/18/2013): Insouciance. Follows You've Got a Fan in Me.)
The club is packed to the gills.
Stealthy as his Shadow (Danny chooses to call him that) may be, he'll get close in a crowd like this. He'll make mistakes and get spotted, and Danny's certain of it.
So Danny picks a spot at the bar, schools his expression into insouciance and keeps scanning over the men and women parading around like fruits ripe for the easy picking. Any other night he may take home a souvenir, but not tonight.
Tonight he's got a different agenda.
Then Danny sees him, remembering tracing those tattoos with his fingers. Then his tongue.
---
Forever and Ever
(written for 1-million-words' Word of the Day: Independent.)
Life goes on.
No more two independent men -- their lives have been fused into one then torn into shreds.
And because Danny's a professional, he clamps down and does his job. It's easier when he buries himself in paperwork. Not having to see the concerned looks on Chin and Kono, he can pretend things haven't changed.
Lacking the strength to pick up the pieces has the advantage of no more falling apart.
But when he drops Grace back at the Edwards residence she whispers in his ear, "Don't be sad, Danno. I'll never leave you."
He breaks all over again.