Drabble Tree Challenge

[bistokids.livejournal.com]

What a fantastic challenge! *climbs into the drabble tree*

This follows on from hambelandjemima's drabble, whose final word was 'before'.
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Before, it was easy.

Before, he relished the danger. Threw himself into harm’s way with vicious glee and no real belief in his mortality.

But that was before. Before he clambered into his partner’s flat, found him helpless and half-dead in a pinkish pool of blood and milk. Before he was forced to stand apart, relying on others to do what he should have done, to protect and preserve the only person that mattered in his fucked-up, isolated, terrifying world. Before he realised that, despite all his instincts, he’d started to care.

Now?

Now, he is afraid. All the time.

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ooh, gives me shivers, this one! Thank you! *g*

[bistokids.livejournal.com]

Hee - more shivers! (Seems only fair, you've caused me to shiver often enough. :) )

Thanks - glad you liked it.