Night Walk
Title: Night Walk
Author:
litlover12
Rating: PG
Fandom: A Tale of Two Cities
Characters: Sydney Carton
Word Count: 138
Spoilers/warnings: Set sometime before Sydney's confession to Lucie.
Summary: It wasn't death he wanted.
Author's Note: A reworking/expansion of my 101-word story " Lost."
Another late night at Stryver’s; another long walk home, under stars that blurred at the edges of his vision. Carton kept near the river, wanting the cool air on his heated face. Not because of any ridiculous romantic notion of casting himself into it.
Once, long ago, that thought had beckoned. But that the dread of something after death. . . . Odd, how that idea had persisted throughout a profligate life.
No, it wasn’t death he wanted. Only to be dissolved into the surrounding darkness, never to feel anything again, neither past pain nor present heartache. To reach an oblivion that would last longer than a few merciful, drunken hours.
He turned away from the river, in the direction of the tiny, airless chamber he called home, and was soon lost in the shadows of the city.
Author:
litlover12
Rating: PG
Fandom: A Tale of Two Cities
Characters: Sydney Carton
Word Count: 138
Spoilers/warnings: Set sometime before Sydney's confession to Lucie.
Summary: It wasn't death he wanted.
Author's Note: A reworking/expansion of my 101-word story " Lost."
Another late night at Stryver’s; another long walk home, under stars that blurred at the edges of his vision. Carton kept near the river, wanting the cool air on his heated face. Not because of any ridiculous romantic notion of casting himself into it.
Once, long ago, that thought had beckoned. But that the dread of something after death. . . . Odd, how that idea had persisted throughout a profligate life.
No, it wasn’t death he wanted. Only to be dissolved into the surrounding darkness, never to feel anything again, neither past pain nor present heartache. To reach an oblivion that would last longer than a few merciful, drunken hours.
He turned away from the river, in the direction of the tiny, airless chamber he called home, and was soon lost in the shadows of the city.