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pooh_collector) wrote2014-04-30 06:15 pm
pooh_collector) wrote2014-04-30 06:15 pm
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angelita26
In the comments, leave me the name of a character and a noun (place, emotion, thing, whatever). You can also specify a 'verse or story, if you'd like - my Masterlist is mostly up to date. It's only missing my RBB and Guess Who Is Coming to Dinner. I'll write you a drabble, somewhere between 100 and 300 words.
I'm apologizing in advance if it takes me a few days to answer prompts.
Prompt away!
angelita26In the comments, leave me the name of a character and a noun (place, emotion, thing, whatever). You can also specify a 'verse or story, if you'd like - my Masterlist is mostly up to date. It's only missing my RBB and Guess Who Is Coming to Dinner. I'll write you a drabble, somewhere between 100 and 300 words.
I'm apologizing in advance if it takes me a few days to answer prompts.
Prompt away!
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Neal sighed, running both hands over his face and through his wavy hair. Then he stood and began pacing the small room for the hundredth time in the past four hours. His back and shoulders ached from the tension that had been coursing through him since early this morning. He sighed again. He had never been good at waiting, and he had spent so very much of his life doing it. Waiting to be old enough to get out of Saint Louis and away from the weight of his mother’s issues. Waiting for Kate to realize that he was deeply, madly in love with her. Waiting for his trial and then for his first four-year sentence to end. Waiting, he thought hopelessly, for Peter get him out of prison the second time. Waiting for Peter to find him after he’d been kidnapped. Waiting for the anklet to come off for the last time. Waiting for Peter and El to realize how very much he wanted to stay and be a part of their lives once he was finally free to do so.
And then he screwed up, got complacent, when the waiting for the thing he wanted most in life finally was his.
His restless wandering eventually took him back to Peter’s bedside. Neal’s partner hadn’t woken since he was brought back from surgery. And, El was still on her way to the hospital. It was snowing and had been since last night and the traffic from DC was horrendous. Neal shivered thinking about El driving up. An agent from DC had picked her up and was driving her in an agency vehicle, but after the events of the morning it was hard not to be afraid her.
Unbidden flashes of memory tumbled through his mind, white snow swirling, the BMW spinning, the sounds of glass breaking and metal tearing, the wrenching of the impact, the chill of the winter air seeping into the once contained vehicle.
Neal resumed his pacing, waiting for Peter to wake up and El to come home to them. A nurse came in, tried to get him to sit, to rest. He wasn’t hurt, just a few mostly shallow cuts and a couple of bruises. He didn’t need to rest, he needed to keep moving until he had his family back, until they were all safe.
He wasn’t sure how much time had passed when El finally entered the room and ran into his waiting arms. He held her tightly, probably a little too tightly and sobbed into her shoulder, so thankful that she was home and safe in his embrace.
The waiting was better with her by his side. Elizabeth took him in hand, made him sit and eat and when Peter finally awoke in the middle of the night, sore and groggy but smiling, El held Neal’s hand tightly in hers to assure him that his waiting had ended and he could rest.
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Thanks ang!
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I adore the opening paragraph of this. And I'm jumping in to snuggle Neal (after Ang & before Peter & El). Also thanks for the sweet ending.
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Thanks for prompting and commenting!
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I'm glad you liked it.
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Awwww, poor baby. I agree that he had already spent so much of his life waiting for something, awww. I'm so glad it all turned out okay ♥
Lovely \o/
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