These are my drabbles from the drabbletag over at the NGF's forum.
So, dedicated to them.
Pairing: Dominique/Teddy Prompt: Bookworm
She never really wanted to become one, y'know, a bookworm, because Rose had already done that, and so had Lucy and they had other talents as well (something more impressive than just reading).
But there was something comforting about reading a book filled with princes and fairytales and white picket fences, something that made her feel like it did happen (maybe not to her, of course not) but it did happen to some people (like her sister and Teddy).
.
He'd always been fascinated by her- she was loud and exuberant with James and Roxanne and Molly but could just as easily shut herself away with a good book and enough light to read by. He noticed (anyone would, it wasn't just him noticing this stuff, right?) that she always read books with a happily ever after, with princes and all that. She never seemed to want one, but she always seemed to be looking, tearing out boy's hearts like she thought she saw something in them, but it turned out to be a fake.
Y'know, he thinks that maybe one day he'll have the courage to break up with her sister and go after her.
Maybe.
.
Day by day her books change, turning from wonderful fantasies to horror stories, anything that gets her away happily ever afters. She doesn't stop reading, he never expected her to, but something's gone. She's not reading, not really, just looking. Watching the words on the page go past as if they never stopped in the first place.
It turns out that he's not as brave as those princes, not really. He's not one of her fairytales, and he probably never will be, because bookworm that she is, she knows what they're like.
And they're nothing like him.