[Original: Drabble] "Cooking for Two" [Zeke Jones, G]
Title: Cooking for Two
Prompt: writerverse challenge #03 march mini table of doom, prompt #8 ‘finest china’
Word Count: 299
Rating:
Original/Fandom: original ( Zeke Jones ‘verse)
Summary: “I wanted something homemade, and it’s just as easy to cook for two as it is to cook for one.”
Note(s): originally posted to the writerverse wv_library
Cooking for Two
“Sir, am I being fired?” I asked, hovering in the doorway of my partner’s kitchen.
Howell half-turned from the stove. “Have you done anything you feel you should be fired for?” he countered.
“No?”
He snorted what I chose to interpret as amusement. “You did well on this case, Jones,” he said, matter-of-factly. “All our cases. And, no, I will not repeat that where you can record it.”
“Damn,” I said, but I was smiling. “So what’s with the fancy dinner, then?”
Howell took the lip off of a pot of something that smelled delicious and stirred it. “We’ve been living on bad coffee and greasy take-out for nearly a month, working this case. I wanted something homemade, and it’s just as easy to cook for two as it is to cook for one.”
“Plus, you know I can’t cook,” I added.
“I do know that,” my partner said, deadpan. “You can set the table.”
He nodded to his small but sturdy kitchen table. There were plates and silverware in a neat stack, and the moment I touched them, I knew they were old. The plates were real china, thick cream-colored porcelain, and the silverware was heavy.
“Not real silver?” I asked.
“Stainless steel,” said Howell. “My parents bought it after I was Bitten. And that’s my mother’s wedding china.”
I touched my own mother’s wedding ring, beside my father’s on the chain around my neck. “It’s beautiful, sir. She had good taste.”
“Yes, she did,” he agreed. “She’d have liked you.”
“Really?”
Howell moved the pot to a trivet on the table. “She had a soft spot for difficult people.”
I smiled. “Then I’m sure I’d have liked her, too.”
My partner looked at me for a long moment, then snorted another laugh. “Yeah,” he said. “Let’s eat.”
THE END
Current Mood:
mellow
Prompt: writerverse challenge #03 march mini table of doom, prompt #8 ‘finest china’
Word Count: 299
Rating:
Original/Fandom: original ( Zeke Jones ‘verse)
Summary: “I wanted something homemade, and it’s just as easy to cook for two as it is to cook for one.”
Note(s): originally posted to the writerverse wv_library
Cooking for Two
“Sir, am I being fired?” I asked, hovering in the doorway of my partner’s kitchen.
Howell half-turned from the stove. “Have you done anything you feel you should be fired for?” he countered.
“No?”
He snorted what I chose to interpret as amusement. “You did well on this case, Jones,” he said, matter-of-factly. “All our cases. And, no, I will not repeat that where you can record it.”
“Damn,” I said, but I was smiling. “So what’s with the fancy dinner, then?”
Howell took the lip off of a pot of something that smelled delicious and stirred it. “We’ve been living on bad coffee and greasy take-out for nearly a month, working this case. I wanted something homemade, and it’s just as easy to cook for two as it is to cook for one.”
“Plus, you know I can’t cook,” I added.
“I do know that,” my partner said, deadpan. “You can set the table.”
He nodded to his small but sturdy kitchen table. There were plates and silverware in a neat stack, and the moment I touched them, I knew they were old. The plates were real china, thick cream-colored porcelain, and the silverware was heavy.
“Not real silver?” I asked.
“Stainless steel,” said Howell. “My parents bought it after I was Bitten. And that’s my mother’s wedding china.”
I touched my own mother’s wedding ring, beside my father’s on the chain around my neck. “It’s beautiful, sir. She had good taste.”
“Yes, she did,” he agreed. “She’d have liked you.”
“Really?”
Howell moved the pot to a trivet on the table. “She had a soft spot for difficult people.”
I smiled. “Then I’m sure I’d have liked her, too.”
My partner looked at me for a long moment, then snorted another laugh. “Yeah,” he said. “Let’s eat.”
THE END
Current Mood:
mellow