Siren's Song (/Falling Inside the Black) ~ Challenge 108: Music

Jun 01, 2009 20:18



Becker leans against the bedroom door, sipping his wine slowly while looking across the dark room out on the balcony. Helen’s sitting on the warm, sun-soaked tiles, head resting against the glass door, eyes closed to this world. The shielding cloak of her own voice tightly wrapped around her, slowly reaching out to him like a hesitant caress.

The need for human sounds on lonely age-old nights had turned into a soothing habit. She doesn’t even notice she’s doing it anymore.

And he’s glad, he’d miss the rough, unmelodic humming he’s come to associate with her, with home, with l…

captain becker, no love no glory, helen cutter, drabble, becker/helen, falling inside the black

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