#272 No Reservations
Author: tigersilver
Pairing: Leon X D
Word Count: 99! [Rejoice! Rejoice! For the first - and only time - I'm below the sacred 100! Verily!]
No warnings
If he appeared to be hesitating, he wasn’t. It was just that time had moved so very, very slowly for such a long time. He was caught in it, a cognizant spider in a treacley web of his own devising, and he found it agonizingly difficult to shift forward once again.
Only someone who loved him very well could have caught that slight pause - could have wondered, and feared, and been lost there, abandoned - his heart stopped, his breath snagged, his throat working soundless during the exquisitely small silence that fell between
“D!”
and
“Detective!”
.
Pairing: Leon X D
Word Count: 99! [Rejoice! Rejoice! For the first - and only time - I'm below the sacred 100! Verily!]
No warnings
If he appeared to be hesitating, he wasn’t. It was just that time had moved so very, very slowly for such a long time. He was caught in it, a cognizant spider in a treacley web of his own devising, and he found it agonizingly difficult to shift forward once again.
Only someone who loved him very well could have caught that slight pause - could have wondered, and feared, and been lost there, abandoned - his heart stopped, his breath snagged, his throat working soundless during the exquisitely small silence that fell between
“D!”
and
“Detective!”
.