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Sheesh, you kids are enabling.
title: Defeat
character: Mandy
rating: pea.gee
a/n: Post-Rosslyn
Paying the toll at the Holland Tunnel had always signaled defeat, she thought.
As her seventh hour at a standstill rolled by, she focused her attention on anything but the search lights, the swarm of cops, the worried faces pressed against the glass of the mini-mart. The pool of vomit beside the car. After hearing the words 'critical condition' a twelfth time, she had to turn the radio off.
A sharp glance in her rearview mirror at the line of stopped cars stretching back to God knows where confirmed what her gut was already screaming. There was no turning back.
title: Defeat
character: Mandy
rating: pea.gee
a/n: Post-Rosslyn
Paying the toll at the Holland Tunnel had always signaled defeat, she thought.
As her seventh hour at a standstill rolled by, she focused her attention on anything but the search lights, the swarm of cops, the worried faces pressed against the glass of the mini-mart. The pool of vomit beside the car. After hearing the words 'critical condition' a twelfth time, she had to turn the radio off.
A sharp glance in her rearview mirror at the line of stopped cars stretching back to God knows where confirmed what her gut was already screaming. There was no turning back.