"Celebration" Challenge
A livejournal community I belong to sets a challange every week to write a maximum of 100 words on a topic.
Author: Loz
Flavour: Criminal Intent
Featuring: The Genius and His Water Carrier
Word Count: 97
Rating: Suitable for all, though it may help break more shipper hearts.
Author's Note: Please note: Contains gigantic great big huge "Purgatory" spoiler. I wrote this In The Wee Small Hours of the morning, too.
A package arrives for Goren. With a small flourish, he flicks his jackknife and starts slicing scotch tape.
In spite of herself, Eames is intrigued.
"What is it?" she asks, leaning over.
"I got myself a present," he says. "To celebrate my reinstatement."
He clears a place of honour on his desk and pulls out a brown rat - rattus norvegicus- stuffed and mounted, from the taxidermist's carton.
She recoils. He turns it to face her.
"Don't you like it?" he asks. His lips smile but his eyes stay glassy and still, just like those of the rat.