Numb3rs Drabble - Naked
Title: Naked
Prompt: Relinquish
Characters: Don, Don/Leah
Spoliers: In Security
Rating: R
Summary: Don is ashamed of convincing Leah to testify.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything in the Numb3rs universe.
Word Count: 100
Notes: This is a follow up to my previous drabbles Eden and Pressure and is a birthday gift for emmademarais. Happy Birthday! =) I have also documented my writing process for this drabble here.
Naked
I swallow, hard, when Leah shuts off the spray. "I'm...." I can't finish.
"Sorry, Don?" She steps from the shower's steam, towels dry, and holds the green terry cloth to her breast. "Are you?"
Caught in her guilt-gaze, I'm hyperaware of shame, corruption, and disobedience: I'm naked. With pity she hands me a matching towel to cover myself, but it makes a poor fig leaf.
"We're in this together," I say.
Letting my towel drop to sop the puddle at our feet, I relinquish the best of her and the worst of me-innocence and knowledge.
I fall without grace.
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Prompt: Relinquish
Characters: Don, Don/Leah
Spoliers: In Security
Rating: R
Summary: Don is ashamed of convincing Leah to testify.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything in the Numb3rs universe.
Word Count: 100
Notes: This is a follow up to my previous drabbles Eden and Pressure and is a birthday gift for emmademarais. Happy Birthday! =) I have also documented my writing process for this drabble here.
Naked
I swallow, hard, when Leah shuts off the spray. "I'm...." I can't finish.
"Sorry, Don?" She steps from the shower's steam, towels dry, and holds the green terry cloth to her breast. "Are you?"
Caught in her guilt-gaze, I'm hyperaware of shame, corruption, and disobedience: I'm naked. With pity she hands me a matching towel to cover myself, but it makes a poor fig leaf.
"We're in this together," I say.
Letting my towel drop to sop the puddle at our feet, I relinquish the best of her and the worst of me-innocence and knowledge.
I fall without grace.
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