Crazy Writin' Fool ([info]crazywritinfool) wrote,
2005-09-11 13:36:00
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3 words short of a drabble...

Woke up this morning with this in my head...

RHYTHM

There is a sound in Angel's head when he returns to consciousness.  It is soft, rhythmic.  He doesn't know what it is.

 

Everything smells of blood.  Thick, heady, nauseating.  He sits up.  Gunn's body lies sprawled near him, mauled past easy recognition. He saw Spike go down in dust before he lost consciousness, himself, had inadvertently choked on what remained of his wayward Childe.

 

Wes is dead. Lorne gone. He sees no sign of Illyria.  Everywhere he looks, he sees death, carnage, desolation.

 

The soft sound continues.  Suddenly he realizes what it is.

 

His heart is beating.

 


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  • 18 comments

[info]niobedancing

September 11 2005, 20:45:19 UTC 6 years ago

God, how terrible for him to get his "reward" after all that. The price of success...

[info]crazywritinfool

September 13 2005, 14:39:20 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah, I was mean. :-( Sorry.

[info]drusplace

September 11 2005, 21:16:06 UTC 6 years ago

Very well done as always. I wasn't expecting the heartbeat.

B-but my poor Spike! *grin*

[info]crazywritinfool

September 13 2005, 14:38:57 UTC 6 years ago

lol. Sorry. Consider that my revenge for you seeing DB's naked ass.

[info]drusplace

September 13 2005, 14:58:36 UTC 6 years ago

Fair enough. So what do I get seeing as you met Andy? *grin*

[info]crazywritinfool

September 13 2005, 15:14:40 UTC 6 years ago

He *smooched* me, don't forget.

I suppose you could write a drabble and kill off Angel. :-)

[info]helygen

September 11 2005, 21:18:38 UTC 6 years ago

Wow. That would be so like the PTB, to pull such a cruel trick on him. Exceptional piece, hun :)

[info]crazywritinfool

September 13 2005, 14:38:19 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks!

[info]viciouswishes

September 11 2005, 21:38:19 UTC 6 years ago

Lovely and bittersweet.

[info]crazywritinfool

September 13 2005, 14:38:04 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks! Love the icon. :-)

[info]nevcolleil

September 12 2005, 03:35:43 UTC 6 years ago

Wow. So powerful for being so short. The horror of Angel's situation - Spike's dust and Angel's loneliness. And then the realization of what that soft sound is... Beautiful.

[info]crazywritinfool

September 13 2005, 14:37:46 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks! I actually woke up with it in my head, then forgot about it until I was in the car on the way to church. So I wrote it down during the sermon...

[info]a2zmom

September 12 2005, 17:34:04 UTC 6 years ago

I love this. And I love the subtle hint of what has happened to him with the thought that blood is nauseating.

[info]crazywritinfool

September 13 2005, 14:37:01 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah, I debated that word for a while--it seemed a little too obvious. But I guess it worked ok.

[info]lonelybrit

September 12 2005, 18:08:23 UTC 6 years ago

Oh.... damn. Lovely writing, though so terribly bittersweet. Perfect AtS, though. Bravo.

[info]crazywritinfool

September 13 2005, 14:36:10 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks! Hated to do that to him... lol.

[info]sam_gamgee

September 13 2005, 03:14:02 UTC 6 years ago

That's just...wow. Very cool. :-D

[info]crazywritinfool

September 13 2005, 14:35:41 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks! Glad you liked it.
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