Fic: 30x30 {3} "Pink", Charlie/Dani
This was hard, because I actually had more to say than one hundred and fifty words. I might come back and visit this one, me thinks, and give it the proper treatment.
Based on - of all things - the Aerosmith song of the same name. Rawk!
THREE
"Pink"
Life (Charlie Crews/Dani Reese)
3. Pink
Life-verse, post-series, 18th August 2009
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She's telling him to wait in the room for her as she finishes in the bathroom. Her voice wavers, a little, and his throat is dry, but they've come so far that he can't help but think it was only ever going to end here.
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"Why don't you wear pink?"
"What?"
"Pink. The colour." Pause. "You'd look good in pink, like a baby pink."
"Crews."
"it would set off your eyes. Maybe we should go get a pink shirt."
"Crews."
"Why don't you wear pink, Reese?"
"Why don't you wear pink?"
"Red hair."
"Oh."
"Clashes."
"I got that."
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He doesn't want to smile, because the whole thing is serious and life-affirming and - yes - Zen. But when she walks out, her only clothing a smile and matching underwear the colour of cotton candy, you couldn't have kept the smile of his face for fifty million dollars.
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Fin.
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Oh, them.
I am also opening the floor for requests-for-drabbles, if you want to leave a comment to inspire me! (Lord knows by Friday I'll be out of ideas and it'll be an all-in orgy with all my partnerz and the cast of High School Musical or something.)
Based on - of all things - the Aerosmith song of the same name. Rawk!
THREE
"Pink"
Life (Charlie Crews/Dani Reese)
3. Pink
Life-verse, post-series, 18th August 2009
---
She's telling him to wait in the room for her as she finishes in the bathroom. Her voice wavers, a little, and his throat is dry, but they've come so far that he can't help but think it was only ever going to end here.
---
"Why don't you wear pink?"
"What?"
"Pink. The colour." Pause. "You'd look good in pink, like a baby pink."
"Crews."
"it would set off your eyes. Maybe we should go get a pink shirt."
"Crews."
"Why don't you wear pink, Reese?"
"Why don't you wear pink?"
"Red hair."
"Oh."
"Clashes."
"I got that."
---
He doesn't want to smile, because the whole thing is serious and life-affirming and - yes - Zen. But when she walks out, her only clothing a smile and matching underwear the colour of cotton candy, you couldn't have kept the smile of his face for fifty million dollars.
---
Fin.
---
Oh, them.
I am also opening the floor for requests-for-drabbles, if you want to leave a comment to inspire me! (Lord knows by Friday I'll be out of ideas and it'll be an all-in orgy with all my partnerz and the cast of High School Musical or something.)