FIC: [Untitled] "8:00 AM - Hopper" (24)
Title: [Full Story Currently Untitled] "8:00 AM - Hopper"
Author: Galadriel (caras_galadhon)
Fandom: 24
Pairing: None currently.
Rating: G
Archive: Lothlorien.
Feedback: Always appreciated.
Disclaimer: Absolutely not mine. 24 belongs entirely to its creators, not me.
Summary: One day ends, another begins.
Notes: Follows directly from the end of Season 4. Second in a series of 24 24 drabbles. Can I manage the full cycle? Better yet, can I manage to post a drabble/day for 24 days? Stick around and find out. Many thanks to makesmewannadie, who asked for 24 fic for her birthday, and then encouraged the bunny I was attempting to ignore.
8:00 AM - Hopper
By Galadriel
The car smelt of transience; straw, cattle, dust, dung; beginnings, endings, points 'twix, 'tween.
Jack breathed in, savoured grit, grime, grease; throat coated with possibilities, where stain was honest-earned. He'd worn negotiator, soldier, assassin--
murderer
--executioner with ease, no flinches, blinks, balking. Would the world settle softer as a lighter borne burden?
Hunched, he rolled shoulders, tried sullen on for size. Scraped filth off walls, rubbed into pores: a wayward vagrant wandering. Hung hope and hide on graded shadow, dappled light.
Waiting for the lurch of engine, he closed weary eyes; heartbeat slowing, dreaming offering a life left behind.
END
(June 26, 2005)
Crossposted to 24_fanfic.
Previous drabble:
7:00 AM - Main Line
Author: Galadriel (caras_galadhon)
Fandom: 24
Pairing: None currently.
Rating: G
Archive: Lothlorien.
Feedback: Always appreciated.
Disclaimer: Absolutely not mine. 24 belongs entirely to its creators, not me.
Summary: One day ends, another begins.
Notes: Follows directly from the end of Season 4. Second in a series of 24 24 drabbles. Can I manage the full cycle? Better yet, can I manage to post a drabble/day for 24 days? Stick around and find out. Many thanks to makesmewannadie, who asked for 24 fic for her birthday, and then encouraged the bunny I was attempting to ignore.
8:00 AM - Hopper
By Galadriel
The car smelt of transience; straw, cattle, dust, dung; beginnings, endings, points 'twix, 'tween.
Jack breathed in, savoured grit, grime, grease; throat coated with possibilities, where stain was honest-earned. He'd worn negotiator, soldier, assassin--
murderer
--executioner with ease, no flinches, blinks, balking. Would the world settle softer as a lighter borne burden?
Hunched, he rolled shoulders, tried sullen on for size. Scraped filth off walls, rubbed into pores: a wayward vagrant wandering. Hung hope and hide on graded shadow, dappled light.
Waiting for the lurch of engine, he closed weary eyes; heartbeat slowing, dreaming offering a life left behind.
END
(June 26, 2005)
Crossposted to 24_fanfic.
Previous drabble:
7:00 AM - Main Line