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Challenge No. 10: Why?
Note: Faint and Choice have mature content, rating R. All have spoilers up to Cerulean Sins. ID-safe.
Title: Mistake
Characters: Larry, Tammy
Why do I feel like I made a mistake?
Larry watched as Tammy played peek-a-boo with the baby. The baby was healthy, beautiful, happy, growing like a weed, everything he had ever hoped for.
Tammy laughed at something the baby did. She was beautiful, smart, caring... everything Larry had ever thought he had wanted. The first time they had made love, it was the most amazing thing in his life. Even now, when he watched her while she slept, she was so beautiful and peaceful.
So why was it, in moments of domestic tranquility like these, did he feel trapped?
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Title: Faint
Characters: Anita, Micah
Note: Anita point of view
"Why did you stay?"
Micah just looked at me. "What do you mean?"
I pulled the sheet higher above my breasts, my body aching from the near-violent sex we'd just had. I missed the feeling of him thrusting inside me. "After Chimera died, why didn't you leave?"
He licked his lips nervously. "Do you want me gone?"
I think I waited too long before shaking my head.
He pushed his hair back, hard. "Maybe I though that you wanted me to stay."
He was at the door when I said, faintly, "I did."
I'm not sure if he heard me.
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Title: Rewind
Character: Anita's father
Why did my daughter turn out this way?
He rewound the tape. Judith didn't know, but he'd recorded everything he could of Anita, from the national news.
The time she showed up on that undead creature's arm for the opening of that whorish dance club.
The times she'd been filmed by television crews at murder scenes.
The cold-blooded execution of the werewolf serial killer.
He pointed the remote at the television once more. He watched his daughter's blank face as she blew a man's head off on national television.
He wondered what he did to deserve a daughter like this.
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Title: Uneasy
Characters: Manny
Why did I train her?
Manny stood in the doorway of his office, listening to Anita and Bert scream at each other. Like normal.
But Anita was not normal. Manny shook his head. Anita had brought forth nine zombies the previous night, and here she was, back in the office on three hours of sleep, not even tired.
Unwillingly, Manny through of the Senora, the most powerful vaudun priestess he had known. Until Anita killed her.
He had no proof, and the world was better off. But as Anita's powers increased, Manny grew uneasy.
He wondered what he had started.
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Title: Choice
Characters: Jean-Claude, Anita, Asher
Why do I feel as if I will have to choose?
Jean-Claude watched as Anita, his Anita, kissed Asher's throat.
Jean-Claude ran his hand up Anita's leg, touching Asher's waist as he did so. Here they were, both his, both naked and warm and smelling of sex in his bed.
Anita's black curls mixed with the gold of Asher's hair. Jean-Claude ran his hand through those intertwined locks, wondering when he would lose all this. When he would finally have to pick one of them, a lover for all eternity.
It didn't matter that he had already made his choice.
abvh100Challenge No. 10: Why?
Note: Faint and Choice have mature content, rating R. All have spoilers up to Cerulean Sins. ID-safe.
Title: Mistake
Characters: Larry, Tammy
Why do I feel like I made a mistake?
Larry watched as Tammy played peek-a-boo with the baby. The baby was healthy, beautiful, happy, growing like a weed, everything he had ever hoped for.
Tammy laughed at something the baby did. She was beautiful, smart, caring... everything Larry had ever thought he had wanted. The first time they had made love, it was the most amazing thing in his life. Even now, when he watched her while she slept, she was so beautiful and peaceful.
So why was it, in moments of domestic tranquility like these, did he feel trapped?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Title: Faint
Characters: Anita, Micah
Note: Anita point of view
"Why did you stay?"
Micah just looked at me. "What do you mean?"
I pulled the sheet higher above my breasts, my body aching from the near-violent sex we'd just had. I missed the feeling of him thrusting inside me. "After Chimera died, why didn't you leave?"
He licked his lips nervously. "Do you want me gone?"
I think I waited too long before shaking my head.
He pushed his hair back, hard. "Maybe I though that you wanted me to stay."
He was at the door when I said, faintly, "I did."
I'm not sure if he heard me.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Title: Rewind
Character: Anita's father
Why did my daughter turn out this way?
He rewound the tape. Judith didn't know, but he'd recorded everything he could of Anita, from the national news.
The time she showed up on that undead creature's arm for the opening of that whorish dance club.
The times she'd been filmed by television crews at murder scenes.
The cold-blooded execution of the werewolf serial killer.
He pointed the remote at the television once more. He watched his daughter's blank face as she blew a man's head off on national television.
He wondered what he did to deserve a daughter like this.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Title: Uneasy
Characters: Manny
Why did I train her?
Manny stood in the doorway of his office, listening to Anita and Bert scream at each other. Like normal.
But Anita was not normal. Manny shook his head. Anita had brought forth nine zombies the previous night, and here she was, back in the office on three hours of sleep, not even tired.
Unwillingly, Manny through of the Senora, the most powerful vaudun priestess he had known. Until Anita killed her.
He had no proof, and the world was better off. But as Anita's powers increased, Manny grew uneasy.
He wondered what he had started.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Title: Choice
Characters: Jean-Claude, Anita, Asher
Why do I feel as if I will have to choose?
Jean-Claude watched as Anita, his Anita, kissed Asher's throat.
Jean-Claude ran his hand up Anita's leg, touching Asher's waist as he did so. Here they were, both his, both naked and warm and smelling of sex in his bed.
Anita's black curls mixed with the gold of Asher's hair. Jean-Claude ran his hand through those intertwined locks, wondering when he would lose all this. When he would finally have to pick one of them, a lover for all eternity.
It didn't matter that he had already made his choice.
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Date: 2005-10-16 02:10 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-10-16 02:31 am (UTC)Also, with Anita, there is the added fact that they are bound to each other metaphysically. That's a bond that won't ever go away, no matter what happens.