AB Drabbles (Ghosts )

[mhalachai]

Ghosts Challenge No. 7 from Mhalachai at abvh100 (cross-posted)
These are all first person POV for Anita. All post Incubus Dreams.

Title: Dead Presidents
Characters: Anita, Larry, Bert
Words: 100
Notes: Larry and Anita bitch about the boss.

Larry looked up as I slumped into the chair in his office. "What?"

"Nothing."

"Fighting with Bert again?"

"I don't want to talk about it."

Larry shrugged. "Why do you keep picking at him? Leave him alone and he'll stop bothering you."

"I know." I rubbed my eyes. "I'm just tired of him treating us like automatons. We're the ones who see the gore and the death, not him."

Larry snorted, but I could see the pain in his tired eyes. He knew what I meant. "The only dead people Bert sees are dead presidents, Anita. Best give it up."

Title: Scared
Characters: Anita, Raina
Words: 100

Lucky people only have ghosts in their pasts. I have mine wherever I go.

Raina's stopped tormenting me about my leopards. Now that Richard and I are back together, she expends all of her ghostly energy on him.

I'll never tell Richard, but Raina wakes me up sometimes, showing me some of the sick things that she did to him. That she had him to do her.

I'm not sure what upsets me more, that she keeps doing it, or that some of those things I want him to do to me.

Sometimes, I scare myself more than she does.

Title: Dirty
Characters: Anita, Richard, Daniel and Charlotte
Words: 100
Notes: Over for family dinner, when...

Charlotte was gardening. Daniel was standing around, offering what Richard called 'help'.

I giggled when Charlotte tossed a clump of dirt at her hovering youngest son, both of them laughing. I turned to Richard to ask him something, but stopped at the haunted expression in his eyes as he watched them.

To save Daniel and Charlotte, I'd tortured a man. Richard had told me that if he had been there, he'd never have let me do it. And Charlotte and Daniel would be dead.

I don't know if he's ever going to be able to forgive himself for that realization.

Title: Brother
Characters: Anita, Nathaniel
Words: 100

"Did I ever tell you I used to see ghosts when I was little?"

I took my eyes off the road long enough to look over at Nathanial. "No. How?"

He shrugged, the end of his long braid sliding off the seat. "Just there, y'know? Hovering or weeping or drifting about."

"When did it stop?" I asked, curious. Nathaniel had never told me anything like that before.

Nathaniel let out a long sigh. "After Nicky died... I tried harder, to see. And then they all went away. I tried so hard to find my brother that I lost everybody else."

Comments

[sabriel-0405.livejournal.com]

I do not remember seeing these the first time. Brilliant as always.

[ansku]

Great drabbles!