A Sad Case of Inspiration
Mar. 14th, 2004 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emmuzkaHum de hum. After over a year since I wrote fic last time, an inspiration hit. This is my sad attempt to breathe my muse back to life. Just a snippet. Unbetaed, unedited.
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It's his fault. He is in the store with Briahna and no one else, because, come on, they live in a gated community and it's not like he's Justin Timberlake. They are waiting in the line behind a old little lady who insists on painstakingly putting the every single one of the two dozen cat food tins on the conveyor belt. He whistles a line from "The Bridge of the River Kwai" and looks down to Briahna, who isn't looking at the candy surrounding them at all but the lady. Then she looks up to her father. She is getting the joke, even if she probably confuses the tune to the one in Snow White. Joey winks at her. She tries to wink back, but her eye coordination doesn't follow and she shuts both of her eyes.
The background music changes and he concentrates on that for just a second, just because first he thinks it's one of their old ones and he doesn't think they ever agreed on muzak. Then he glances the magazines and there is a picture of JC on one of the covers with a word "pink" in it and he wants to now if it's about the singer or about the color. It's really just a little moment and Briahna's hand eases from his but she is not a clingy child, so. And then he turns and she is just gone.
He looks around but there is no one but the lady in front of them. In front of him. He asks for the cashier girl if she saw a little girl going trough. She didn't, but she phones the security. He idly wonders how he can manage to sound so calm. How he manages to even breathe. He steps back and starts a frantic search.
Later there is the security and the police and the press. Then there is Kelly and now he forgets how to breathe. And Briahna stays gone.
(If that felt familiar, you might have read a book called "The Child of Time" or something like that. I'm not sure about that, I read it a long time ago.)
Be kind. Or, if you think that I should stop, don't be.
***
It's his fault. He is in the store with Briahna and no one else, because, come on, they live in a gated community and it's not like he's Justin Timberlake. They are waiting in the line behind a old little lady who insists on painstakingly putting the every single one of the two dozen cat food tins on the conveyor belt. He whistles a line from "The Bridge of the River Kwai" and looks down to Briahna, who isn't looking at the candy surrounding them at all but the lady. Then she looks up to her father. She is getting the joke, even if she probably confuses the tune to the one in Snow White. Joey winks at her. She tries to wink back, but her eye coordination doesn't follow and she shuts both of her eyes.
The background music changes and he concentrates on that for just a second, just because first he thinks it's one of their old ones and he doesn't think they ever agreed on muzak. Then he glances the magazines and there is a picture of JC on one of the covers with a word "pink" in it and he wants to now if it's about the singer or about the color. It's really just a little moment and Briahna's hand eases from his but she is not a clingy child, so. And then he turns and she is just gone.
He looks around but there is no one but the lady in front of them. In front of him. He asks for the cashier girl if she saw a little girl going trough. She didn't, but she phones the security. He idly wonders how he can manage to sound so calm. How he manages to even breathe. He steps back and starts a frantic search.
Later there is the security and the police and the press. Then there is Kelly and now he forgets how to breathe. And Briahna stays gone.
(If that felt familiar, you might have read a book called "The Child of Time" or something like that. I'm not sure about that, I read it a long time ago.)
Be kind. Or, if you think that I should stop, don't be.
