Hello everyone. I hope you are all as well as when I left you? This drabble is my first in a while so please excuse the naffness, I just had to get going again somehow.
Maybe, if I can comply with the next few challenges, this might be the start of a little series. Here's hoping :)
Title: A Glimpse in Time
Author: Debbie
Challenge: Camera Phone
Disclaimer: The characters do not belong to me. I do it only for my sanity.
Words: 250 (I’ll get better again, I promise)
Summary: A glimpse of someone thought gone.
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Olivia stared up towards the Halls of Justice as the boys ran around her legs. Chaos reined but Olivia was lost in visions of many happy hours spent in the building: Blonde hair; glasses framing blue eyes that bore into her very soul; chats about life, love, friends; unhurried kisses; fun; her.
All lost to a madman’s rage.
Smiling sadly she chuckled at her present: her friend Casey’s nephews. It had taken a while to get here, but here they had arrived. Sometimes she thought Casey wanted more but it wasn’t something she had to give, but love for these energetic young guys, sure. Hell, kids kept you young or so they said, and she needed to stay young in case *she* came back.
And yet, Valez was dead, wasn’t he? Olivia had seen it with her own eyes. She’d had to, had to know he was dead, had to know *she* was safe. So, where was she? Why wasn’t she back in New York? Why wasn’t she back with Olivia? Why?
Gathering the boys and Casey into a group she lifted her phone, the camera attachment wonderful for capturing these moments. Waiting as a group of obviously nervous young lawyers were herded into the building, through the screen she caught a flash - flowing blonde, skirt too short to be legal, slender strong golden thigh, and trim gorgeous waist.
Olivia knew that body anywhere.
By reflex her finger tightened…
Click.
Glancing upwards the vision was gone, glancing down…
Zoom
Alex.
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Thank you for reading me again, if you have :)