Pros Drabble: Just the End of Another Day
Friday, 15 May 2009 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
byslantedlightFor Siskou, who wanted a crabby, exhausted - but not too exhausted - Doyle. I hope this is close!
Just the End of Another Day
“And get these people clear before the whole bloody lot comes down!”
He scowled, turned away, knew he was trembling, grit-eyed and exhausted. It had been a long time since he’d felt so bone-marrow-tired, so worn with death and destruction and the stupidity of man. They’d not stopped this bomb; for all their panting, breathless race, the dust still rose. He stepped over bodies, around bodies, through debris, needing to know, searching…
And there.
Bodie, hand dripping blood that ran down his gun in the rain and vanished into the cracked pavement, clothes torn, face grey.
Eyes blue.
Home soon.
Just the End of Another Day
“And get these people clear before the whole bloody lot comes down!”
He scowled, turned away, knew he was trembling, grit-eyed and exhausted. It had been a long time since he’d felt so bone-marrow-tired, so worn with death and destruction and the stupidity of man. They’d not stopped this bomb; for all their panting, breathless race, the dust still rose. He stepped over bodies, around bodies, through debris, needing to know, searching…
And there.
Bodie, hand dripping blood that ran down his gun in the rain and vanished into the cracked pavement, clothes torn, face grey.
Eyes blue.
Home soon.
