fahye | DRABBLE MEME

Yes! I have a free Saturday, so I'm finally going to do that drabble meme that everyone else did ages ago. I can do Good Omens, Harry Potter, any Milliways characters that you think I know well enough, Lost, a handful of anime fandoms...you people know what I do. Ask and ye shall receive. I'd prefer at least a pairing and an object/setting/theme/other prompt.

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What do I do when I'm bored? I collect icons of my friends! Spurred by

cyrulean's Kelsey-icon and the fact that I've spent the past few days getting hugely ahead of myself and planning my in-three-years-time trip around the world to visit all you crazies.

Obviously some of you don't believe in showing your real self online and that's understandable. But if you do have any icons of yourself, when you request your drabble, comment using the one you like best? Even if you have to upload it for a day, to give me time to save it, and then take it down.

Yes, of course I'm planning to stalk you all.

I kid. I just have a folder of icons called 'Friends' and it needs filling up.

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Went for coffee and Chinese and general catching-up with

not_in_denial and

tairamika today, which was lovely :)

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tongue twisters, black books, a beanie, a midget and several trained pigeons

*pats* good frar.

Darker frame of mind + I haven't written you Faith for ages + fixation on dreams = this!

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It’s something that should be set as a tongue twister for children, she thinks. Whispering words that curl around the teeth.

Faith fears fever. Flitting fearsome fanciful Faith fears foreign fever.

Fucking fever.

Fever dreams, slicing her mind apart. When she has the lucidity she gets annoyed; they don’t even have the decency to be proper nightmares. No vampires, no blood, no knives slicing through her own flesh or (more common) that of others, driven by her hand. She dreams instead of running through sand, of being taught to dance by a grave little man half her height, of trying to build a castle from stones and being driven to tears by a blonde girl, faceless, who kicks it over as soon as she reaches the last tower.

There’s a message there.

She’s not fucking stupid.

Faith twists the sheets, twists her thoughts inside

out
like a baby with bathwater and
such an odd phrase
that one
with echoes of unwanted children and
a drowning, bubbling scream as
a door
closes.

For a moment she comes back to herself, opens bleary eyes and tries not to imagine how she looks. Wrapped up tight, beanie gloves and two jumpers, almost unbearably hot when the sweating fits start but far better than freezing. She’s always liked the heat better than the cold. Bound for Hell. Heaven sounds like…cold edges, empty high skies and silence. She can deal with flames. More pragmatic, anyway, considering…considering…

Train of though derailed and hijacked. Whoops.

Images easier, in the end. Thinking about the end about the boy about the girl about the

end
of all things,
and her thoughts
return
like a dozen white pigeons set free at a
(graduation?)
wedding, with heavy background bells,
and making their own
unerring
homewards path.

The end? Comes with death. Never far away, not for one like her. She imagines a huge black book opened at her very own page, ancient scribbles of red and black ink, still wet. Paradoxical. Credit and debit. The list of her deeds and denouncements, ending in damnation and a finger pointed at her, through her, sending her away into the fever flames.

And then, a blonde girl with a stake, turning away.

Again

And again.

And again.

ooooooooooooh.
awesome and interesting and seemingly far more difficult than the OBVIOUS drabble. XP
how you avoided humour was quite impressive.
nice work frar. *pats you proudly*

Oh, I love it.

In the interest of fair trade, my one attempt at Buffy/Faith resides here (http://hobviously.livejournal.com/106846.html#cutid1).

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decidedly NOT what you were thinking, I'll bet :D

Re: decidedly NOT what you were thinking, I'll bet :D

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