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For the Lay/Lie Challenge by laughingacademy
Rating: G
Pairing: gen
Length: 100 words
Notes: If anyone can suggest a title, I’d be grateful.
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Fraser and Kowalski watched as their charge, nine-year-old pickpocket and murder witness Marie Antoinette Stouffer (AKA “Baby Marie,” “Li’l Orphan Annie,” and “that goddamned sticky-fingered little thief”) folded her hands beneath her chin.
“Now I lay me down to sleep…”
“Gah,” Ray muttered. “Always hated that. ‘And should I die before I wake’? There’s a nice thought to put in a kid’s head right before lights out.”
“Actually,” Marie said, “I’m an ah-theest.”
Fraser’s brow wrinkled. “Do you mean an atheist?”
“Yeah.”
Ray snorted. “Then why the kneeling and all?”
“Ray, is that your wallet protruding from beneath the mattress?”
Pairing: gen
Length: 100 words
Notes: If anyone can suggest a title, I’d be grateful.
* * *
Fraser and Kowalski watched as their charge, nine-year-old pickpocket and murder witness Marie Antoinette Stouffer (AKA “Baby Marie,” “Li’l Orphan Annie,” and “that goddamned sticky-fingered little thief”) folded her hands beneath her chin.
“Now I lay me down to sleep…”
“Gah,” Ray muttered. “Always hated that. ‘And should I die before I wake’? There’s a nice thought to put in a kid’s head right before lights out.”
“Actually,” Marie said, “I’m an ah-theest.”
Fraser’s brow wrinkled. “Do you mean an atheist?”
“Yeah.”
Ray snorted. “Then why the kneeling and all?”
“Ray, is that your wallet protruding from beneath the mattress?”