Title: A Compass to Help You
Rating: PG
Characters: Jacob, Daniel
Word Count: 100
Summary: “Think of it as a place.”
Warnings: None.
Spoilers: Season five/season six.
A/N: For the
Sweet Drabblethon II and
valhalla37’s prompt Jacob and Daniel - you have to go back.
A Compass to Help You
“Think of it as a place,” his teacher tells him, handing over the sheet of music carefully, but with a calculating look.
Fingers resting on the keys, Daniel tries to make sense of the black on white.
Little time left; it’s only a forty-five-minute lesson.
“You don’t know you’ve been there, but soon it’ll seem familiar.”
And you’ll know you’ll have to find your way back to the beginning, the end.
Daniel’s brain works hard; links his hands, still a child’s, with his eyes, not yet a man’s. He understands, starts playing the part.
Jacob smiles at the final note.
end.