5 Sanctuary Drabbles
Characters/Pairing: Bigfoot, Helen
Summary: She pushed herself too hard, especially after…
Warnings: Nil (Wow, I didn’t feel the need to fill this in for no reason. Wait, oh)
Big, well muscled hands carefully arranged items on the platter before him. The Big Guy was known as a valuable fighter and fierce protector among the Sanctuary’s staff and residents. It was also well known that he doted on Helen. Bringing her food when she forgot to eat, reminding her to sleep when she went days without it.
Lately, it had become much more common, her ventures to the limits of what her body could tolerate. The repetition of making tea had become part of a much larger cycle.
She would punish herself with exhaustion and hunger until her body could take no more. When she finally did collapse, he would carry her to her room and gently lay her on her bed. He would leave to fret and make tea, because she wouldn’t rest for long.
Title: Memento
Characters/Pairing: Helen, Ashley
Summary: Prompt - glossy. These were her mementos.
Warnings: A bit sad.
Each small item within the box was handled with care. Like a sacred artefact. To the woman who held them, they were beyond sacred. They were the only things that mattered in her life.
At the same time, each memento bound and distanced her from reality. While she could look at these and find the strength to carry on, each glimpse into the past drew her deeper and deeper into a world of her imaginings.
Into a world where the blonde angel smiling out at her from the photographs still existed.
Title: Lightning
Characters/Pairing: John/Helen
Summary: Each time she had the power to destroy him, but never struck so close.
She was flickering and distant, bright and electrifying, dangerous and beautiful.
Her presence resulted in pure sensory overload. She was all he could hear, all he could see, she shook him to his very core. When she left, her afterimage was imprinted on the back of his eyelids and her voice echoed musically through his ear. Sweet and high like the melody of the violin, or the after effect of thunder.
Her brief interactions with him, moments when she tore through his life, were by no means consistent, but inevitable and unavoidable nonetheless. Each time she had the power to destroy him, but never struck so close.
Once he believed he knew her, possessed her even. But she was not something to be controlled. He only dared admire from afar.
Title: Kraken
Characters/Pairing: Will, Helen
Summary: “Kraken? Please, that’s a complete myth.”
The site before him was one of the most awe-inspiring he had seen of his time working in the Sanctuary. The cooperative efforts of six Sanctuaries had gone into trapping the creature before him: a kraken.
Almost a year ago they had detected anomalies in the ocean currents and sea floor of the region. An entire underwater mountain had disappeared with no evidence of any seismic activity. Then, weeks later, ships began to sink or disappear. The survey team reported that, indeed, a previously undiscovered Kraken did exist.
Because of its sheer size, they could not kill it as protocol demanded and risk its decay polluting the area’s water. Their only hope had been to lure the creature into an area of the ocean where their massive nets could seize it.
He turned to the woman beside him, a rare smirk on his face. “’Complete myth’, huh?”
Title: Camping
Characters/Pairing: Will
Summary: Will has to go outside his comfort zone.
One blessing of joining both the Agency, and the police force, was that his job was based in an entirely urban environment. He may have been ridiculed or ignored, but he remained in his comfort zone. When he began working at the Sanctuary, pushing the boundaries of science and reality, apprentice to the master of forward thinking herself, he had expected some level of unorthodox cases. Camping had never crossed his mind.
Then he was in a small tent that had seen better days, only a meter away from the tent housing the two Magnus women. But, he would never be able to hear them over the pounding rain of the South American rainforest.
The next time had been even worse, he jumped at every sound and every movement. Because the last time he had been camping, he woke the next day with a dead mother.
Summary: She pushed herself too hard, especially after…
Warnings: Nil (Wow, I didn’t feel the need to fill this in for no reason. Wait, oh)
Big, well muscled hands carefully arranged items on the platter before him. The Big Guy was known as a valuable fighter and fierce protector among the Sanctuary’s staff and residents. It was also well known that he doted on Helen. Bringing her food when she forgot to eat, reminding her to sleep when she went days without it.
Lately, it had become much more common, her ventures to the limits of what her body could tolerate. The repetition of making tea had become part of a much larger cycle.
She would punish herself with exhaustion and hunger until her body could take no more. When she finally did collapse, he would carry her to her room and gently lay her on her bed. He would leave to fret and make tea, because she wouldn’t rest for long.
Title: Memento
Characters/Pairing: Helen, Ashley
Summary: Prompt - glossy. These were her mementos.
Warnings: A bit sad.
Each small item within the box was handled with care. Like a sacred artefact. To the woman who held them, they were beyond sacred. They were the only things that mattered in her life.
At the same time, each memento bound and distanced her from reality. While she could look at these and find the strength to carry on, each glimpse into the past drew her deeper and deeper into a world of her imaginings.
Into a world where the blonde angel smiling out at her from the photographs still existed.
Title: Lightning
Characters/Pairing: John/Helen
Summary: Each time she had the power to destroy him, but never struck so close.
She was flickering and distant, bright and electrifying, dangerous and beautiful.
Her presence resulted in pure sensory overload. She was all he could hear, all he could see, she shook him to his very core. When she left, her afterimage was imprinted on the back of his eyelids and her voice echoed musically through his ear. Sweet and high like the melody of the violin, or the after effect of thunder.
Her brief interactions with him, moments when she tore through his life, were by no means consistent, but inevitable and unavoidable nonetheless. Each time she had the power to destroy him, but never struck so close.
Once he believed he knew her, possessed her even. But she was not something to be controlled. He only dared admire from afar.
Title: Kraken
Characters/Pairing: Will, Helen
Summary: “Kraken? Please, that’s a complete myth.”
The site before him was one of the most awe-inspiring he had seen of his time working in the Sanctuary. The cooperative efforts of six Sanctuaries had gone into trapping the creature before him: a kraken.
Almost a year ago they had detected anomalies in the ocean currents and sea floor of the region. An entire underwater mountain had disappeared with no evidence of any seismic activity. Then, weeks later, ships began to sink or disappear. The survey team reported that, indeed, a previously undiscovered Kraken did exist.
Because of its sheer size, they could not kill it as protocol demanded and risk its decay polluting the area’s water. Their only hope had been to lure the creature into an area of the ocean where their massive nets could seize it.
He turned to the woman beside him, a rare smirk on his face. “’Complete myth’, huh?”
Title: Camping
Characters/Pairing: Will
Summary: Will has to go outside his comfort zone.
One blessing of joining both the Agency, and the police force, was that his job was based in an entirely urban environment. He may have been ridiculed or ignored, but he remained in his comfort zone. When he began working at the Sanctuary, pushing the boundaries of science and reality, apprentice to the master of forward thinking herself, he had expected some level of unorthodox cases. Camping had never crossed his mind.
Then he was in a small tent that had seen better days, only a meter away from the tent housing the two Magnus women. But, he would never be able to hear them over the pounding rain of the South American rainforest.
The next time had been even worse, he jumped at every sound and every movement. Because the last time he had been camping, he woke the next day with a dead mother.