"Blue" - HL100 Challenge #4
Blue
Always a trio - blonde woman, dark man, energetic teenager. She recorded, never interfered - never had the chance to. They always checked out one register over.
Then they disappeared. Six months passed.
But now he was back: eternal teenager. Just how old was he? Was there age in his eyes?
She was alone amongst the cash registers, other cashiers stocking shelves.
She breathed. She’d never been so close to one.
“Hi,” he said, grinning. Deli sandwiches. Water. Chocolate.
“Hi.” Her job. “Twelve dollars.” It wasn’t interference. She was finally close enough to see.
She was right.
Richie Ryan’s eyes were blue.
A/N: This will be a much, much lengthier story in the next few days.
Recently, I wondered, while rewatching “The Watchers”, if Richie and Tessa really spent the entire night in the car in that parking lot. Didn’t they get hungry? Could Richie have popped into a grocery store and grabbed a few things to stave off starvation?
Then, in “Tournabout”, Richie says that he could have gone on a date, instead of being at DeSalvo’s Gym with Mac. Was there a girl he knew with whom he could have spent that afternoon if Mac hadn’t asked him to come to the gym? The cogs in my brain began to move.
The “she” of “Blue” is who Richie could have been with on that date - the daughter of a watcher who, at first, thinks that Richie is an Immortal (already) because of his proximity to Mac...and the main (original) character of the lengthier story that I am building out of this.
Strangely enough, when I pruned down the original and started again from scratch I had to add 40 words. Usually I have to fight to get rid of a few necessary words....
Always a trio - blonde woman, dark man, energetic teenager. She recorded, never interfered - never had the chance to. They always checked out one register over.
Then they disappeared. Six months passed.
But now he was back: eternal teenager. Just how old was he? Was there age in his eyes?
She was alone amongst the cash registers, other cashiers stocking shelves.
She breathed. She’d never been so close to one.
“Hi,” he said, grinning. Deli sandwiches. Water. Chocolate.
“Hi.” Her job. “Twelve dollars.” It wasn’t interference. She was finally close enough to see.
She was right.
Richie Ryan’s eyes were blue.
A/N: This will be a much, much lengthier story in the next few days.
Recently, I wondered, while rewatching “The Watchers”, if Richie and Tessa really spent the entire night in the car in that parking lot. Didn’t they get hungry? Could Richie have popped into a grocery store and grabbed a few things to stave off starvation?
Then, in “Tournabout”, Richie says that he could have gone on a date, instead of being at DeSalvo’s Gym with Mac. Was there a girl he knew with whom he could have spent that afternoon if Mac hadn’t asked him to come to the gym? The cogs in my brain began to move.
The “she” of “Blue” is who Richie could have been with on that date - the daughter of a watcher who, at first, thinks that Richie is an Immortal (already) because of his proximity to Mac...and the main (original) character of the lengthier story that I am building out of this.
Strangely enough, when I pruned down the original and started again from scratch I had to add 40 words. Usually I have to fight to get rid of a few necessary words....