(47) Drabble -- "In A Heartbeat"

Jul 29, 2007 07:56

Another lyric from Liz, another quickie drabble.

ONE MORE HOUR, PEOPLE.

Post Season Five.

In A Heartbeat
by Severina

I was at a party
That's when it came to me
Oh what a moment
I was reading a magazine in someone's bedroom
And I thought
You're just so fine to me

* * *

He smiled, though thin-lipped and strained, at the right times. Murmured the right sounds at the appropriate moments in the conversation. Wandered through sterile rooms and nodded at designer-gowned women and wondered exactly how he got to this place, so far from his dirty little hovel in the Pitts, so far even from one large room filled with fashionable furniture and Brian.

In a heartbeat he makes the decision that’s plagued him for months.

He abandons the art patron in the middle of a convoluted sentence. Catches the red-eye to Pittsburgh. Drapes himself in Brian’s arms and doesn’t look back.
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drabble, fanfic

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