Hi! I've decided to create a drabble collection, as a sort of "storing" place for my drabble challenge responses. Enjoy!
Stay
Prompt: bay
Pairing: Teddy/Dominique
He could walk away; pretend that she isn't standing a mere ten feet away from him, barefooted on the sand, her body turned halfway towards his. He could turn around, go back home, and act as if the relationship - if you could even call it that - between them was nothing more than a faint memory, a whisper gone with the wind.
But she stares at him in that strange yet intriguing mixture of softness and intensity, of longing and freedom, and he knows that he could never turn away, even if he wanted to.
And he doesn't want to. Because she's strong and wonderful and beautiful, and maybe it's wrong and yeah, it probably is but he realizes in that split second of gazing at her that he doesn't care, doesn't care in the least.
Ever so slowly, he approaches her, in the way of a child approaching a tiger at a zoo, in awe of the beauty before him. She reaches out, and so does he, and their hands interlock for a brief moment before falling down to their sides. She smiles up at him before turning away, beginning her walk down and across the bay.
He follows.