The Count (#324 Yellow)
Title: The Count
Prompt: #324 Yellow
Author: ladygray99
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Nikki, Alan
Word count: 200
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Summary: It’s election night and the votes are coming in.
Notes: A follow up to A Proposal written for emmademarais and melissima.
Beta: riverotter1951
The Count (#324 Yellow)
It was nearly midnight and the results were still coming in. Votes were being hand counted in areas that usually didn’t vote. Nikki’s old neighborhood had its highest turnout ever. Though Nikki was sure half of them came out to vote against her. People where she grew up didn’t like cops.
She looked to Alan. Out of all her staff and volunteers he was the one who gave her the most peace, even when laying out hard truths. Over the campaign he’d become a bit of an icon to the younger volunteers as he told his own flavor of war stories.
He’d parked himself in a corner two hours earlier with a yellow legal pad and had been scribbling across it.
A CalSci statistics student she had recruited tapped her on the shoulder. “Ma’am, they’re calling it.”
Nikki looked up at the news feed. Her name came up with a number that was nearly two thousand larger than her competitor. She blinked at the numbers even as a tired cheer went up around her. A couple of sheets of yellow paper were shoved into her hand.
Alan grinned at her. “Your acceptance speech.”
Nikki grinned back. “You never doubted.”
“Never.”
Prompt: #324 Yellow
Author: ladygray99
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Nikki, Alan
Word count: 200
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Summary: It’s election night and the votes are coming in.
Notes: A follow up to A Proposal written for emmademarais and melissima.
Beta: riverotter1951
The Count (#324 Yellow)
It was nearly midnight and the results were still coming in. Votes were being hand counted in areas that usually didn’t vote. Nikki’s old neighborhood had its highest turnout ever. Though Nikki was sure half of them came out to vote against her. People where she grew up didn’t like cops.
She looked to Alan. Out of all her staff and volunteers he was the one who gave her the most peace, even when laying out hard truths. Over the campaign he’d become a bit of an icon to the younger volunteers as he told his own flavor of war stories.
He’d parked himself in a corner two hours earlier with a yellow legal pad and had been scribbling across it.
A CalSci statistics student she had recruited tapped her on the shoulder. “Ma’am, they’re calling it.”
Nikki looked up at the news feed. Her name came up with a number that was nearly two thousand larger than her competitor. She blinked at the numbers even as a tired cheer went up around her. A couple of sheets of yellow paper were shoved into her hand.
Alan grinned at her. “Your acceptance speech.”
Nikki grinned back. “You never doubted.”
“Never.”