Trying to think of a title for this drabble ...
That red! She'd already removed and reapplied the lipstick too many times. It was supposed to scream. She smiled, and then grimaced at herself. If she looked half as scary to the rest of the world as she did to herself, then this plan just might work.
If.
Once, just once, after looking around the empty bathroom, did she stand with her shoulders pushed back, cleavage unhidden, and run her hands slowly down the smooth leather, trying to imagine what it would feel like to be powerful enough, dark enough, to wear this outfit, instead of being worn by it.
New Sunday 100. Someone hook me up?
Here, Deb.
And here's my next:
He's standing there, between the dresser and the bed, and she gives him that "Don't make me kill you," stare she throws around so carelessly these days. Like he'd wander into her bedroom in the middle of the night without a right good reason. Well not wake her without one anyway.
"Please. Like I give a bloody damn."
And he turns, making sure he seems just grudging enough. There's a mirror on the dresser, he knows (he knows her room very well, these days), and she doesn't realise that without a reflection, he has no problem watching her through himself.
Invisible
It's been raining in Los Angeles, a noisy winter rain: thin, streaming, depressing. It drums on the Hyperion's roof; more importantly, it streams down into the sewage outtake tunnels.
He kneels down, touching the water. There's no light, but it doesn't matter; he knows what he would see even if the heavens poured down gold and morning and he didn't die, and that's nothing. Of the many things he's lost, this, his own image, is one of the losses that bothers him in the deep places.
He swirls dirty water with one fingertip, and reflects on how lucky Connor is.
mine:
She held a blouse up to her chin. It didn't fit, and then, damn, pizza sauce, but, who cared, really? "Maybe she'll think it's blood."
She tried the black lace. She would *so* rock in this. She'd rule the Bronze. She wouldn't slay vampires, or demons, or fuck monsters; she'd dance and get all the attention.
She admired the black lace, but, though she looked at her own face floating above it, she didn't really see her reflection. After all, what was there to see? She'd never slay vampires or demons or fuck monsters. Maybe, she shrugged, she could dance.
Yeah, very good.
I'm not sure mine's actually good. It was easy. I have a sneaking sympathy for Dawn.
Elena, thanks, at least that's one mistake I caught myself.
final version is "published" up at BFA. Title is "The Wolf at Rest."
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oh, connie, the sultana of silly is becoming a children's story. You've been given a title for exemplary service to the Sultanate. You are now Duchess of Discordia, Minister for Disposing of Those Annoying People in Poetically Just Ways.
