A teaser...
...for a fic I've been working on on and off for a long time. I am a terrible procrastinator, you see, and so posting this here will motivate me to finish it. As long as it languishes on my hard drive, no one knows it exists nor will I feel pressured to work on it.
And it even comes with an embedded YouTube vid to enhance your fic-reading experience - lucky you! ;)
Teaser. Standard disclaimer is at the end.
He came awake in a panic, his rapidly accelerated heartbeat pounding in his ears.
It had been that nightmare again, the one he could never quite remember. He closed his eyes, thinking. There was a woman… no. It was gone.
When he opened his eyes again, his brain registered the fact that it was daylight. In fact, judging from the late morning sunlight streaming in through the windows, he’d overslept by several hours.
“Alarm must not have gone off,” he muttered to himself, rolling over to fiddle with the alarm clock on the nightstand. He put on his glasses and peered owlishly at the clock, unable to believe what he was seeing.
Ten AM, and the alarm had gone off at six, just as he’d set it. Frowning, he reached for his cell phone and saw that he had seven new calls and six new voicemails.
How in the world did I sleep through all that? he wondered. On the heels of that thought came another: Hope my hearing isn’t starting to go!
With a sigh, he forced himself upright and slid his feet into his slippers. As he passed the windows, it seemed to him that the sunlight had an odd quality to it: it was too bright, too much. The edges on everything were too sharp, the world was too crisp.
He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. “This place is nowhere, and it’s forever,” he murmured, and blinked. Where in the world did that come from? he wondered.
With a growing feeling of unease, Doctor Donald “Ducky” Mallard retrieved his cell phone and began to review his voicemails as he walked toward the bathroom and the shower that awaited.
FOOMP!
TO BE CONTINUED…
STANDARD DISCLAIMER: NCIS belongs to Donald Bellisario and CBS Television. Another show that I will not name yet because it will spoil you belongs to someone else and some other network somewhere. Sapphire and Steel belongs to Peter J. Hammond and ITV.
And I’m not making any money from this.
X-posted to: ncisfanfic
EDIT: Part 1 is here!
EDIT EDIT: Part 2 is here!
And it even comes with an embedded YouTube vid to enhance your fic-reading experience - lucky you! ;)
Teaser. Standard disclaimer is at the end.
He came awake in a panic, his rapidly accelerated heartbeat pounding in his ears.
It had been that nightmare again, the one he could never quite remember. He closed his eyes, thinking. There was a woman… no. It was gone.
When he opened his eyes again, his brain registered the fact that it was daylight. In fact, judging from the late morning sunlight streaming in through the windows, he’d overslept by several hours.
“Alarm must not have gone off,” he muttered to himself, rolling over to fiddle with the alarm clock on the nightstand. He put on his glasses and peered owlishly at the clock, unable to believe what he was seeing.
Ten AM, and the alarm had gone off at six, just as he’d set it. Frowning, he reached for his cell phone and saw that he had seven new calls and six new voicemails.
How in the world did I sleep through all that? he wondered. On the heels of that thought came another: Hope my hearing isn’t starting to go!
With a sigh, he forced himself upright and slid his feet into his slippers. As he passed the windows, it seemed to him that the sunlight had an odd quality to it: it was too bright, too much. The edges on everything were too sharp, the world was too crisp.
He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. “This place is nowhere, and it’s forever,” he murmured, and blinked. Where in the world did that come from? he wondered.
With a growing feeling of unease, Doctor Donald “Ducky” Mallard retrieved his cell phone and began to review his voicemails as he walked toward the bathroom and the shower that awaited.
FOOMP!
Click to viewTO BE CONTINUED…
STANDARD DISCLAIMER: NCIS belongs to Donald Bellisario and CBS Television. Another show that I will not name yet because it will spoil you belongs to someone else and some other network somewhere. Sapphire and Steel belongs to Peter J. Hammond and ITV.
And I’m not making any money from this.
X-posted to: ncisfanfic
EDIT: Part 1 is here!
EDIT EDIT: Part 2 is here!