ext_18276 ([identity profile] lmondegreen.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] ds_flashfiction2003-12-08 03:39 pm

'Packing Challenge' response

I think my version of 'pack' is stretching it a bit. But it's really short...



He opens his desk drawer and looks down into it. Stares at the the item he’s been thinking about, so small, so harmless-looking. It's been a week. He's been good, surely he deserves a break, doesn't he? A treat. Just one.

He reaches for it, his fingers almost touch it, when he grits his teeth, draws his hand back.

Fraser. Goddamned Mountie would know, of course he would, and he'd look. Mr. Almighty, never has an impure craving.

So, Ray doesn’t walk on water or shit roses. So he’s human, just like everyone else who doesn’t dress in red wool every day.

He sighs, and closes the drawer. Sighs again, opens it, picks the pack up and throws it into the garbage can.

"Hey, Ray," Dewey calls across the bullpen. "Gonna smoke those?"

"Nah. Have at ‘em," he says, pretending he doesn’t really care.

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