New Drabble: Truth
I've created a new page on my website, housing all of my episode-related drabbles. Eventually (a long, long way down the road) I'd like to write a drabble for each episode in the series.
But in the meantime I've got seven, the latest of which I just posted today.
You can find this one in all of its illustrated glory, along with a link to my new drabble page, here:
Truth - A Coffin for Starsky
If you'd rather not leave this page, I've included the text of the drabble
Author: Rebelcat
Rating: PG, for strong language
Category: Double Drabble
Disclaimer: You can't blame me for mistreating them, this time. It's canon!
Notes: A missing scene from the episode, "A Coffin for Starsky".
Truth
I heard him say it.
He thought I wouldn’t - too far gone, too messed up. But I heard him.
“Bravest man I know…”
I wanted to set him straight on that. I would have, too, if I wasn’t strapped to a gurney fighting to breathe, never mind speak.
Fucked up.
And drooling. Aw, hell. I can’t swallow, I can’t…
A shadow moves across my line of vision, edges blurring, shifting… Too fast. Never mind, I know it’s him.
He wipes my face, before tucking the sheet under my chin. That’s real friendship for ya. He knows I don’t want to die drooling like some kind’a… I focus on his face. His eyes are red, and I think maybe he’s been crying.
He says, “Why’d you do it?”
They’re pulling him away. It’s okay, ‘cause I haven’t got it in me to tell him the truth anyway.
I had two choices on that roof. Him or me. And, for me, that wasn’t any kind of choice at all. Because I’m not strong enough to face living - or dying - without him.
The bravest man he’s ever known?
It’ll make a pretty line on my gravestone. But the truth is…
I’m a coward.
~end~
But in the meantime I've got seven, the latest of which I just posted today.
You can find this one in all of its illustrated glory, along with a link to my new drabble page, here:
Truth - A Coffin for Starsky
If you'd rather not leave this page, I've included the text of the drabble
Author: Rebelcat
Rating: PG, for strong language
Category: Double Drabble
Disclaimer: You can't blame me for mistreating them, this time. It's canon!
Notes: A missing scene from the episode, "A Coffin for Starsky".
Truth
I heard him say it.
He thought I wouldn’t - too far gone, too messed up. But I heard him.
“Bravest man I know…”
I wanted to set him straight on that. I would have, too, if I wasn’t strapped to a gurney fighting to breathe, never mind speak.
Fucked up.
And drooling. Aw, hell. I can’t swallow, I can’t…
A shadow moves across my line of vision, edges blurring, shifting… Too fast. Never mind, I know it’s him.
He wipes my face, before tucking the sheet under my chin. That’s real friendship for ya. He knows I don’t want to die drooling like some kind’a… I focus on his face. His eyes are red, and I think maybe he’s been crying.
He says, “Why’d you do it?”
They’re pulling him away. It’s okay, ‘cause I haven’t got it in me to tell him the truth anyway.
I had two choices on that roof. Him or me. And, for me, that wasn’t any kind of choice at all. Because I’m not strong enough to face living - or dying - without him.
The bravest man he’s ever known?
It’ll make a pretty line on my gravestone. But the truth is…
I’m a coward.
~end~