"let's not argue with the crazy person holding the enormous sword."
Title: Refraction
Rating: G
Fandom: The Demon's Lexicon
Pairings: none
Word Count: 314
Summary: Jamie, breakfast and rainbows. Written for the Demon's Covenant ARC.
Jamie watched the rainbows sliding across the walls of the dining room, the speckles of color brilliant against the smooth cream wallpaper.
His cereal was already turning soggy, but he didn’t move to finish it. He kept the spoon in his mouth, though, twisting it, turning it over and over, tasting the cheap metal it was made of and wondering why it tasted just like the silver spoons that were in the chest beneath the French windows.
Mae wouldn’t be back for a few hours yet, and the Saturday morning was empty and quiet as Jamie sat at the mahogany dining table and watched the sunlight be transformed into violets and emeralds, indigos and pinks.
When Mae was there in the mornings, they would eat breakfast together in the kitchen, from cheap ceramic bowls on top of polished marble countertops. But when Jamie was alone, he had breakfast in the dining room. Mae thought it was stupid, and it was true that Jamie felt more than a little bit foolish, sitting by himself at a table that had been made for twenty or more.
But in the kitchen, the sound of his spoon clinking against his cereal bowl seemed unnaturally loud, echoing off the cold tile floors and the smooth metal appliances. In the deserted dining room, with its smooth wooden floorboards, the scrape of his spoon still rang in the empty air, but it was soon swallowed up by the sheer space around him.
Besides, Jamie liked watching the rainbows as they slowly moved across the walls, the broken beams of sunlight reflected and bent through the crystal chandelier that hung overhead. They would be gone in an hour, but they’d also be back the next morning, and Jamie knew that Mae would be gone tomorrow morning as well, and he would be here, watching rainbows and waiting for her to come home.
Rating: G
Fandom: The Demon's Lexicon
Pairings: none
Word Count: 314
Summary: Jamie, breakfast and rainbows. Written for the Demon's Covenant ARC.
Jamie watched the rainbows sliding across the walls of the dining room, the speckles of color brilliant against the smooth cream wallpaper.
His cereal was already turning soggy, but he didn’t move to finish it. He kept the spoon in his mouth, though, twisting it, turning it over and over, tasting the cheap metal it was made of and wondering why it tasted just like the silver spoons that were in the chest beneath the French windows.
Mae wouldn’t be back for a few hours yet, and the Saturday morning was empty and quiet as Jamie sat at the mahogany dining table and watched the sunlight be transformed into violets and emeralds, indigos and pinks.
When Mae was there in the mornings, they would eat breakfast together in the kitchen, from cheap ceramic bowls on top of polished marble countertops. But when Jamie was alone, he had breakfast in the dining room. Mae thought it was stupid, and it was true that Jamie felt more than a little bit foolish, sitting by himself at a table that had been made for twenty or more.
But in the kitchen, the sound of his spoon clinking against his cereal bowl seemed unnaturally loud, echoing off the cold tile floors and the smooth metal appliances. In the deserted dining room, with its smooth wooden floorboards, the scrape of his spoon still rang in the empty air, but it was soon swallowed up by the sheer space around him.
Besides, Jamie liked watching the rainbows as they slowly moved across the walls, the broken beams of sunlight reflected and bent through the crystal chandelier that hung overhead. They would be gone in an hour, but they’d also be back the next morning, and Jamie knew that Mae would be gone tomorrow morning as well, and he would be here, watching rainbows and waiting for her to come home.