FIC: Full Circle (AB)

[mhalachai]

For Anita Blake at fanfic100.

Title: Full Circle
Fandom: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (master list here)
Characters: Anita, the Mother of All Darkness
Prompt: 044 -- Circle
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: Laurell K. Hamilton owns all things Anita Blake. Only the story is my own.
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: Takes place after Ceruelan Sins. Crossposted to abvh100.

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When I don't wear my cross to bed, the Mother of All Darkness visits my dreams.

It's always the same. I'm running in the darkness. I can't see, but there is something around me, circling, waiting. If I stop running, it will get me, and I'll never wake up.

Then the ground grows soft and hands reach up, holding my legs, pulling me down. I scream, as long and as hard as I can, until dirt fills my mouth and the hands pull me into the earth with the dead.

I wake with the taste of dirt in my mouth.

--fin

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

DOn't know what to say except for.. Damn.... That was amazing for so few words. I applaud your talent.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Thank you. There is something about the Mother of All Darkness (MoAD?) that just facinates me. The all-encompasing evil v. our poor heroine. Who will win?

[catherinecookmn.livejournal.com]

A little toothpaste before she goes to bed would help with that. ;-)

Seriously: That's most creepily excellent. Or excellently creepy.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Toothpaste. Or, you know, an exorcism.

Thank you. I love it when a drabble comes as easily as this one did. the MoaD is just the most interesting villian.

[dolevalan]

Very effective. The last sentence was just chilling. Nice work.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

[sabriel-0405.livejournal.com]

This was terrific. I am looking forward to this coming into to play in the series.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

As am I. The use of the original evil (which is how I interpret it) as a villian is pretty ballsy.

[thymidinekinase.livejournal.com]

Nice and creepy.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

Hi, welcome to my nightmares. Literally, actually.

*shudder*

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

That is very creepy.

I thought this would be a perfect nightmare for someone who raises zombies, being pulled into the ground. Never thought about other people having it... although I've had some scary scary dreams myself.

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

I have an overactive dream imagination. THe nightmares I have are ... probably unusual. Though most of them would make great sci-fi/horror plotlines. I get night terrors too, the paralysis and inability to breathe. They, in a word, suck.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I can imagine. I have very boring dreams. Last night, it was all very crossovery. I was shopping somewhere with Inara and Kaylee when Fred (from Angel) came over with a fashion question for Inara. I'm so lame.

[catherinecookmn.livejournal.com]

Who wouldn't want to go shopping with Kaylee and Inara?