Kris11
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Shipping in Circles
I am so confused when did I change my name
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Post by Kris11 on Mar 31, 2011 18:07:45 GMT 10
Title: Breathe Rating: PG Wordcount: 176 Pairing: Crane/Rosethorn Round: 1/F Summary: Rosethorn struggles with the effects of the blue pox.
Cold, cold water surrounds me now and all I’ve got is your hand. Cold Water, Damien Rice.
Rosethorn struggled to breathe.
She knew that this was going to be the worst of it, and that it would get much, much worse before it all... ended... but she was concentrating too hard on trying to catch a full lungful of air around the racking coughs that crippled her to fear it... too much.
Even as she tried to tell herself that, she struggled to give her lungs what they were beginning to painfully demand, and she began to panic before she felt the hands on her face.
“Just relax. You know it will pass if you accept it, though it is just like you to be defiant at a time like this,” the familiar voice drawled. Rosethorn didn’t know whether she wanted to smile, growl, or cry, but the pox that was going to kill her took the choice away.
She clung to the hands of her oldest friend and struggled to breathe. The fact that those hands were there to hold shouldn't have mattered... but they meant all the difference in the world.
QC by: journeycat
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Kit
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Duchess of Emelan
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Post by Kit on Mar 31, 2011 21:52:35 GMT 10
I really like how you've given the whole piece a rather breathless tone, with all the ellipses. And Crane's drawl, of course, was pitch perfect.
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