Challenge #95--Ghosts; Sleepless (PG)
Title: Sleepless
Author: lvs2read
Characters: Mal, Simon
Warnings: slash
Rating: PG
Challenge: 95--Ghosts
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: Don't own it, never did, never will--just having fun playing.
Author's Note: This is my eleventh ficlet for the Challenge Redux, and continues the story begun in Black Velvet, the last chapter of which was Wakefulness
Another one with only 100 words! More introspection, less action, this time around. *g*
He can't sleep. He's so tired, but every time he closes his eyes they're there. He's haunted by them. He's tried to bury them. And sometimes he succeeds--for a while. But then something will happen and they'll be back. Their open mouths calling out to him. Their hollow eyes crying. Their broken bodies crushing his soul. Their names etched in his memory. He tries not to disturb the man lying wrapped in his arms, but knows he has when the head on his shoulder lifts.
"Still can't sleep?"
"Nope."
"Tell me about your nightmares, Mal."
Amazingly enough, he does.
Author: lvs2read
Characters: Mal, Simon
Warnings: slash
Rating: PG
Challenge: 95--Ghosts
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: Don't own it, never did, never will--just having fun playing.
Author's Note: This is my eleventh ficlet for the Challenge Redux, and continues the story begun in Black Velvet, the last chapter of which was Wakefulness
Another one with only 100 words! More introspection, less action, this time around. *g*
He can't sleep. He's so tired, but every time he closes his eyes they're there. He's haunted by them. He's tried to bury them. And sometimes he succeeds--for a while. But then something will happen and they'll be back. Their open mouths calling out to him. Their hollow eyes crying. Their broken bodies crushing his soul. Their names etched in his memory. He tries not to disturb the man lying wrapped in his arms, but knows he has when the head on his shoulder lifts.
"Still can't sleep?"
"Nope."
"Tell me about your nightmares, Mal."
Amazingly enough, he does.