Round III of Ficlette Fiasco II -- one AB ficlette

[mhalachai]

Just a little too short to be a double drabble. (master list found here)

Title: Problem
Characters: Richard (mention of Anita, Micah)
Disclaimer: All Anita Blake characters belong to Laurell K. Hamilton. I am only borrowing them for a short while and am receiving nothing.
Author's Note: For sabriel_0405. A very angry and depressed Richard thinks about why Anita won't let him back in. Set about a month after Narcissus in Chains. Cut for content bordering on the adult.

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Richard didn't get it. Yeah, he'd been the one to dump Anita after she fed the ardeur on him that first time, but it wasn't supposed to mean anything. She'd never been able to say no to him before.

But then he came along. Micah Callahan, wereleopard alpha. Even after he'd almost gotten Anita killed with Chimera, she'd let the son of a bitch into her house, her bed, and, from what Richard heard, between her thighs almost every night.

Richard didn't understand any of it. Anita didn't do strangers, especially ones who almost got her and her pard killed. Yeah, Callahan was hung, but Anita could be so frigid about it sometimes that the sex probably wasn't it.

He picked up the glass of whisky at his side and stared blankly at the wall in his darkened living room. If it wasn't Callahan, what was it? Why wouldn't Anita let him back into her life?

He knocked back the alcohol. Maybe it was Richard who was the problem, after all. Maybe he really was a monster, too much of a monster even for Anita.

Comments

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Bitter much, Richard?

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Well, he's basically trying to kill himself (and dragging his pard and everyone else down with him). Not a good mix.