theme 106: these wounds still bleed
Today's theme:
these wounds still bleed1. Submit your drabble that fits this theme as a comment to this post. It should be between 100-300 words, if you go over/under a bit that's fine! If it's longer than say 400 words, I ask that you post on your journal or fanfiction.net and then submit the link to this post. If you find that your story is ( Read more... )
these wounds still bleed1. Submit your drabble that fits this theme as a comment to this post. It should be between 100-300 words, if you go over/under a bit that's fine! If it's longer than say 400 words, I ask that you post on your journal or fanfiction.net and then submit the link to this post. If you find that your story is ( Read more... )
Claim: general series
Rating: PG-13 (mentions of torture)
Drabbles completed so far: 6/100
He wasn't sleeping. It wasn't the first time in his life that nightmares had kept him awake, but it was the first time that those nightmares involved memories of his own torture. Three or four hours into each night, he would snap to wakefulness, his chest heaving and sweat dripping down his body. Once, he lifted a hand to see the way it shook. Ever since then, he made sure to keep his fists clenched at his side.
Maybe that was why it took him so long to notice that Kono wasn't sleeping either. Three weeks into his own personal hell, he finally saw the bags under her eyes, and the telltale signs of just going through the motions. He wasn't sure what exactly her demons were - though he suspected Fryer and her time undercover - and he wasn't sure she'd tell him even if he asked.
"You know what I do when I can't sleep, boss?" she asked one day when they were alone in the car.
The question startled him, and it occurred to him that maybe she had been keeping an eye on him longer than he had been keeping one on her.
"What's that?" he asked, eyes locked on the road.
"A couple of beers on the beach."
"Haven't tried that one," he admitted. "Sounds a little lonely, though."
She glanced over at him briefly. "Some company might be nice."
It was as close to an invitation as he was going to get. And though he knew that being there for her might mean opening up about his own issues - and that terrified him right to his core - he was willing to do it if it would help her.
"Tonight?" he asked.
Kono looked over again and nodded. "Yeah."
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