Post by aurorax on Jul 20, 2009 2:30:58 GMT 10
Title: Unrecognized
Rating: PG
Prompt: #7, Excess
Words: 100
Summary: He had loved too strong, and now he sought just to forget.
A face stared back at him, the ripples distorting features already half-foreign. He should not still be awake, not after the vigil he kept last night. Still he sat transfixed, caught up in the depth of pain and desire burning in bloodshot eyes.
Then he drank, washing away the face that was not his own with numbing amber fire. Now all that gazed back at him was emptiness.
He had loved the boy too much, who tonight was a boy no longer.
As the street outside buzzed with news of the Duke’s death, Raoul raised another glass to Alan’s memory.
Rating: PG
Prompt: #7, Excess
Words: 100
Summary: He had loved too strong, and now he sought just to forget.
A face stared back at him, the ripples distorting features already half-foreign. He should not still be awake, not after the vigil he kept last night. Still he sat transfixed, caught up in the depth of pain and desire burning in bloodshot eyes.
Then he drank, washing away the face that was not his own with numbing amber fire. Now all that gazed back at him was emptiness.
He had loved the boy too much, who tonight was a boy no longer.
As the street outside buzzed with news of the Duke’s death, Raoul raised another glass to Alan’s memory.
Maybe once we'd have seen it during Smackdown!