Challenge #18, Weekly QuickFic #6
Title: Risks
Prompt: “Live, love today, and come tomorrow what may; don’t stop even for a sigh, it doesn’t help if you cry. That’s how I’ll live and I’ll die, devil may care” (“Devil May Care” by: Jamie Cullum)
Bonus?Yes
Word Count: 245
Rating: PG-13
Original/Fandom: Original
Pairings (if any): One-sided him/her
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con etc): None, really
Summary: She knows it's a risk but it's one she's more than willing to take.
She doesn’t care if she’ll get hurt. She wants this. She wants this more than anything, and wasn’t the point of all her hard work so she could take risks, make mistakes, and do what she needs to do for herself?
She’s terrified of telling him this, though. Terrified that he’ll still reject her, that he will try to protect her, because he doesn’t want her to get hurt. But will she regret this, if she doesn’t pursue, at least a little? Will she later plague herself with questions of what ifs and might bes? She likes him. A lot. She wants a relationship. A lot.
She can’t promise him she won’t fall for him. She probably already has. And she can’t promise him she’s truly ready for something like this -- because who ever really is?
But she wants to try. She wants to see the stories they create, together. She wants to see what it’s like, to do something purely for herself and not because someone else gently pushed her (or not so gently shoved her) towards a decision.
Will it be worth the almost inevitable pain? She hopes so. And even if it’s not, it’ll be a lesson well-learned, a lesson she needed to have, and a lesson she’s more than willing to sit through, whether it’s a month or a year or five years -- she wants this.
And she wants him.
Can he really blame her for trying?
Title: Pitch and Timbre
Prompt: Overpowering
Bonus? Also yes
Word Count: 351
Rating: PG
Original/Fandom: Original
Pairings (if any): Him/Her
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con etc): None, really.
Summary: She gets an unexpected phone call from a good friend, one she might be falling for.
It’s a little overwhelming, just how much his voice affects you. It’s not at all what you expected, yet it resonates deep within you, causing a smile to break out on your face before you can stop it.
Your first phone call, and it was while he was at work. A literal minute where he decided it’d be worth it to call you, just so you can hear his voice (because damn, did you want to hear his voice) -- and it was while he was at work, probably busy, and probably breaking a rule or two.
So maybe it wasn’t his voice at all. Maybe it was the fact he took a want you had and fulfilled it, as quickly as he could, without giving you any sort of warning of what he was about to do. All you know is that you were sitting in your bed, book propped open in your hands, your phone at your side (since you were using that to talk to him over facebook, since it’s less distracting than your computer), and the phone started vibrating beside you. A number you don’t recognize, but the word California underneath the number, and really, who the hell else could it be?
And yet, you couldn’t get yourself to answer with anything more than a shy and hesitant, “Hello...?” and then a moment later, “I’m assuming this is you,” and him affirming yes, that would be a good assumption. And the whole time, your heart can’t make up its mind whether to pick up its pace or stop dead in its tracks as you try to memorize the exact pitch and timbre of his voice, so that you can recall it later at will.
Sixty seconds, maybe less, and you’re not sure you succeeded in memorizing it, but there may be more phone calls and therefore more times to have your breath taken away by it, to memorize it. And that’s enough for you, for now.
But as much as he’s already overpowered your heart, you know it’ll one day ask for more.
Prompt: “Live, love today, and come tomorrow what may; don’t stop even for a sigh, it doesn’t help if you cry. That’s how I’ll live and I’ll die, devil may care” (“Devil May Care” by: Jamie Cullum)
Bonus?Yes
Word Count: 245
Rating: PG-13
Original/Fandom: Original
Pairings (if any): One-sided him/her
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con etc): None, really
Summary: She knows it's a risk but it's one she's more than willing to take.
She doesn’t care if she’ll get hurt. She wants this. She wants this more than anything, and wasn’t the point of all her hard work so she could take risks, make mistakes, and do what she needs to do for herself?
She’s terrified of telling him this, though. Terrified that he’ll still reject her, that he will try to protect her, because he doesn’t want her to get hurt. But will she regret this, if she doesn’t pursue, at least a little? Will she later plague herself with questions of what ifs and might bes? She likes him. A lot. She wants a relationship. A lot.
She can’t promise him she won’t fall for him. She probably already has. And she can’t promise him she’s truly ready for something like this -- because who ever really is?
But she wants to try. She wants to see the stories they create, together. She wants to see what it’s like, to do something purely for herself and not because someone else gently pushed her (or not so gently shoved her) towards a decision.
Will it be worth the almost inevitable pain? She hopes so. And even if it’s not, it’ll be a lesson well-learned, a lesson she needed to have, and a lesson she’s more than willing to sit through, whether it’s a month or a year or five years -- she wants this.
And she wants him.
Can he really blame her for trying?
Title: Pitch and Timbre
Prompt: Overpowering
Bonus? Also yes
Word Count: 351
Rating: PG
Original/Fandom: Original
Pairings (if any): Him/Her
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con etc): None, really.
Summary: She gets an unexpected phone call from a good friend, one she might be falling for.
It’s a little overwhelming, just how much his voice affects you. It’s not at all what you expected, yet it resonates deep within you, causing a smile to break out on your face before you can stop it.
Your first phone call, and it was while he was at work. A literal minute where he decided it’d be worth it to call you, just so you can hear his voice (because damn, did you want to hear his voice) -- and it was while he was at work, probably busy, and probably breaking a rule or two.
So maybe it wasn’t his voice at all. Maybe it was the fact he took a want you had and fulfilled it, as quickly as he could, without giving you any sort of warning of what he was about to do. All you know is that you were sitting in your bed, book propped open in your hands, your phone at your side (since you were using that to talk to him over facebook, since it’s less distracting than your computer), and the phone started vibrating beside you. A number you don’t recognize, but the word California underneath the number, and really, who the hell else could it be?
And yet, you couldn’t get yourself to answer with anything more than a shy and hesitant, “Hello...?” and then a moment later, “I’m assuming this is you,” and him affirming yes, that would be a good assumption. And the whole time, your heart can’t make up its mind whether to pick up its pace or stop dead in its tracks as you try to memorize the exact pitch and timbre of his voice, so that you can recall it later at will.
Sixty seconds, maybe less, and you’re not sure you succeeded in memorizing it, but there may be more phone calls and therefore more times to have your breath taken away by it, to memorize it. And that’s enough for you, for now.
But as much as he’s already overpowered your heart, you know it’ll one day ask for more.
