A/N:I'm mostly a Pelle girl, but I've got to admit that these two have got some serious potential. Old stuff is old, whee. Only wrote about fifteen prompts, but it's nice and kinda short and simple, so yeah, we'll roll with it. Any feedback would be awesome. Enjoy!
How long does it take to get a drink in this place?
What does it take, how long must I wait?
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This Place is a Prison
The Postal Service
cool
He remains unfazed, calm in front of her danger and lightning and fire, and when she is done waiting for a reaction, she locks him up and leaves him behind (saying sourly under her breath, I hope you freeze).
young
It is when she first presses herself up against him that he knows this is wrong (my God, he thinks, she's just so young), but his conscience died quite a long time ago, and he had never been one to consult it anyway.
last
He makes the mistake of telling her that he will not require her anymore just after he kisses her (this is the last time, he tells her, and she only smiles, denying, and hisses: Adam, you'll never be able to escape me).
wrong
One day he was asked all sorts of questions about things he didn't give a damn about, and when he was wrong (wrong, wrong, come her high sadistic giggles, you're always going to be wrong, Adam), he'd wish for any sort of death: anything to stop the pain.
gentle
When he starts pulling away from her before she's done wanting to kiss him, she tries to be soft, acts gentle to lure him in, but it won't work: he's already seen the monster she is, and there's no undoing that now.
one
He tells her he's never been overly fond of the idea of being shocked alongside the pills, and she promises that it will only be one little shock (one that turns into two into twenty into two hundred into why does he even keep a count anymore?).
thousand
He wakes up one night from a horrid nightmare of being unable to shake her off him, and being punished for it by Elle falling alongside him for thousands of years; he's strapped into a polygraph machine when he awakes, and when he catches Elle's eyes her face is cold (as if she already knows his darkest fear).
king
In the days before he kissed her, she drives him absolutely mad as she sings, hips wild and mouth afire (so draw your sword, be my king), and he probably should have known it was just one of the many tricks she had to rein him in (and fuck him, it worked).
learn
In the beginning she is an absolute mess, fingers fumbling over his standard-issue clothes and lips trembling over his neck, and when she says I'm willing to learn he takes it as an invitation (instead of the threat it really is).
wait
He keeps telling her to wait, wait; if she gives him everything he will never escape her, but she tells him it's not like you don't know what this is all about,and there's no conscience to kick in, nothing to stop her or him or, all of a sudden, no space between them (or the impeding disaster).
change
It's startling to see how fast 'love' changes her, how the smiles get laced with sparks and she's the only one to see him anymore; she says it's because she's never been so sure of anything before (there's a moment you know you're fucked).
believe
The issue of her age isn't one he drops lightly, and one day he tells her she's young enough to still believe in fairies, she smiles, almost too simply, and says, "I don't believe in fairies" (and the following whisper somewhere, just now, I killed one tells him everything he needs to know).
child
She smiles brightly and says, "I've come up with names, you know, if it happens, do you want to hear them?" and he wants nothing more to throw himself out the window, even if death's not waiting at the bottom (oh, come on, Adam, don't be so dramatic, it's not like I'd even keep it--I don't want to bring anyone into a world like this one).
blur
He has a hard time remembering what she looks like during the long stretches while she's on assignment; she is all blurs and sparks, and all the better, too: he'd be haunted till the end of his days otherwise.
motion
He learns twice that she is damnably quick and on nigh inescapable: once he is first captured, and again when he tries to escape (you think you would've learned by now, Adam, old boy).
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