Tag by Drabble - an open challenge

[wendymr]

I've seen a couple of 'drabble tags' or 'drabble trees' going around, and so I decided to do my own version here. Anyone, whether on my flist or not, is welcome to take part, whether you consider yourself a writer or not :)

Rules:

1. A drabble is defined in its correct meaning: 100 words, no more, no less. So no 150-word ficlets, no 80-word

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[wendymr]

From neadods' drabble (and in a way inspired by it).

Closure

Goodbye. It’s a word he never says. Why say goodbye when he could see them again whenever he wants? Quick trip, cross his own timeline or into their future, and watch them. Normal, domestic lives, in houses with doors and with miniature thems underfoot.

It’s like having them forever on his own personal home movie collection.

Except it’s not. Not when he dumps one in Aberdeen, abandons another 200,000 years from home, loses another to a crash-landing in the Cretaceous era.

Now he’s burning up a sun to say a word he never says. Because, for them, goodbye is forever.

[neadods]

Oooo, I like! *applause*

[wendymr]

Thank you! :)

As dark_aegis points out, he doesn't go back - but the possibility is still there, so he might well use it as the reason why he doesn't need to say goodbye.