Unfinished Business
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giles_shortsTitle: Unfinished Business
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: (Gen) Rupert Giles, Buffy Summers
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Challenge: Marathon
Summary: Some things are better left in the dark.
A/N: The lovelyquaggy was kind enough to point me here after we got talking about drabbling communities that were moving from LJ. Hope you don't mind me coming to play! =)
The stake is cool beneath his palm.
It’s a race, he thinks.
Not a sprint, but a marathon, the finishing line forever vanishing beyond the horizon, the darkness that followed snapping at his heels.
A fight with no winner. No end.
He looks out into the desert, at the girl sat alone in the moonlight. A shadow amongst shadows, footsteps falling in the silhouette of his own, leaving no trace.
He wants to call her in, bring her home.
But he can’t.
She’s not that girl anymore. Only the ghost of one he used to know, once upon a time.
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters/Pairing: (Gen) Rupert Giles, Buffy Summers
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Challenge: Marathon
Summary: Some things are better left in the dark.
A/N: The lovely
quaggy was kind enough to point me here after we got talking about drabbling communities that were moving from LJ. Hope you don't mind me coming to play! =)The stake is cool beneath his palm.
It’s a race, he thinks.
Not a sprint, but a marathon, the finishing line forever vanishing beyond the horizon, the darkness that followed snapping at his heels.
A fight with no winner. No end.
He looks out into the desert, at the girl sat alone in the moonlight. A shadow amongst shadows, footsteps falling in the silhouette of his own, leaving no trace.
He wants to call her in, bring her home.
But he can’t.
She’s not that girl anymore. Only the ghost of one he used to know, once upon a time.
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Date: 2017-04-14 01:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-17 09:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-04-15 09:01 am (UTC)So sorry to be late to comment (family stuff), thanks for playing along!
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Date: 2017-04-17 09:00 pm (UTC)And no worries - I apologise too for my late reply! The Easter weekend got in the way. =)
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Date: 2017-04-20 01:14 am (UTC)Well done! And welcome to Shorts! :D
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Date: 2017-04-20 03:05 pm (UTC)If only I'd written something vaguely smutty, then I really could have come in with a bang! *snort*
Sorry, bad joke.
Glad I found out about Shorts - I do love a good drabble! =D