Two AB drabbles for your day

[mhalachai]

The reason for these? I thought, I can only seem to write drabbles when the subject matter is dark and depressing. And what's more depressing than character death? So here we have two Anita and Micah stories in which people are dead. See? A great way to start Wednesday.



Title: Hope
Characters: Anita, Micah
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"Nathaniel wanted me to tell you that he's okay. He'd come, but..."

Micah reached up and touched Anita's face. Her skin was soft under his fingers, but she didn't respond to his touch. She never responded anymore, only lay there and blinked occasionally.

Micah sighed, a familiar heaviness in his chest. He used to think she'd get better, one day, but after two years, he'd lost hope. Her body might be alive, but whatever Anita had been, died the day when Richard died in that challenge.

At least if Jean-Claude died too, we might have been able to bury her.



Title: Waiting
Characters: Anita, Micah. Anita POV
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Micah came into the hall when he heard the front door close. "Are you okay?" he asked, so very worried.

I nodded and tried to smile, but the bruises on my face stopped me. "I'll be fine."

Micah helped me take off my jacket, over my injured arm. "Jean-Claude said Edward tried to kill you."

The panic was still in his voice, and I had to touch his cheek, to reassure him that I was all right. To reassure myself. "He got tired of waiting to know who was better."

"What happened?"

I let my hand drop. "I was better."

Comments

[sabriel-0405.livejournal.com]

And you are in a dark mood because??? These were great, as usual. Of course, what did happen to Jean-Claude in the first one? Thanks!

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I actually wrote these last night while taking a mini-brain break from writing other stuff. The idea popped into my head when I realized that I cannot write a penguin drabble. At all.

JC.... that's a very good question :)

[sabriel-0405.livejournal.com]

Penguin drabbles are not thick on the ground. I liked the lighter of the two that were posted yesterday. 100 words. It's an art.

[firesongvx.livejournal.com]

::beams:: Bloody brilliant, as always! I particularly love "Waiting", of course, being the Edward fanatic that I am. Both are awesome drabbles, though!

(And sorry about the penguin thing...I guess I've had better ideas. ^_^;; That's what I get for spouting off random ideas for challenges, heh.)

[cissasghost.livejournal.com]

Oh, I LOVE the second one. The flat finality of that last line, the emotional void, is just perfect.

-Sonya

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much. And it's not the penguin thing so much as my brain is fried. Normally I can come up with stuff for anything, but this one just stumped me :)

[mlady-rebecca.livejournal.com]

Those were very emotionally packed, especially "Hope". Excellent writing.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I was wondering what would happen if one of them died, especially because they're only three marks in... nothing good, I expect.

[mlady-rebecca.livejournal.com]

Four marks might be worse. Then Anita might have Jean-Claude's lifespan, but still be stuck in the comma.

With three marks, she'd still age and die. Of course the ever practical Jean-Claude would probably just give her the fourth mark.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I was thinking if they were four marks deep, she and JC would probably have died. Something that will be for speculation only, I think, as I can't see LKH killing off Richard at any near point in the future.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

PS I'm not sure if I've ever said it, but I totally love your Nathaniel icon (that's what it is, right?)

[waterfall8484]

Ouch... The last scentence of Hope - gave me goosebumps, I swear. It just gives you a feeling of horror. And of course JC would keep her alive for as long as he could... brrr!

The second one was good too, although it's not how I imagine it would happen. You have a flair for last scentences - this one too was terrible in a good way.

[mlady-rebecca.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's Nathaniel. Thanks!! aoi_hana made the icon.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Like I said, I was in a dark mood.

As for the second one, how do you see it happening? I think at this point in the books, Anita has too much to lose to play fair with Edward. Plus she'd probably bring out the big guns (ie magic) to win.

[waterfall8484]

I don't think it would happen suddenly, that he just tried to kill her. I think he'd call her first, or leave a note or something: You have one hour - Edward. He'd just love the thought of freaking her out like that, scaring her in some way.

But you may be right about her not playing fair and using magic. It won't just be her if she loses, it'll be a lot of other people too.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I don't think it would happen suddenly, that he just tried to kill her.

The hard part of drabbles is you can't put in the backstory. I dind't envision it as Edward trying to kill Anita out of the blue; rather that was how JC phrased it to Micah. But yeah. 100 words etc.

When I read, You have one hour -- Edward, chils ran down my spine. Very creepy.