Panic on the streets of London
Disclaimers: characters not mine. Lyrics belong to The Smiths.
A/N: written 11:27 07/07/2005 (times not exact). Weather etc. based on my own personal memory. Rated for the relation of painful incidents.
Honey Pie, you're not safe here
So you run down to the safety of the town
But there's panic on the streets of Carlisle
Dublin, Dundee, Humberside
I wonder to myself…
Seven bombs went off in London today. Where were you?
9:00am Curt was lying in a tangled mess of sheets with a cigarette hanging out of the side of his mouth. He looked outside and saw stale sunshine hanging about beneath sullen purple clouds.
9:10am Brian rolled over and stared at Curt's shoulder. He smiled childishly up into eyes covered with smudges of black eyeliner. The morning was chilly for mid-summer and he snuggled gratefully into the man's warm arms.
9:20am Mandy dunked the dull steel spoon into her coffee and stirred. She took a sip of the bitter sludge and her face crumpled. It was disgusting.
9:30am Curt pushed the wet hair out of his eyes and grinned at himself in the mirror. As he left the bathroom with a towel tied around his waist, he almost collided with Brian. Cold hands slid around his sides and pulled him closer. The towel dropped to the floor.
9:40am Brian did up the buttons on his shirt and fiddled with the hair-tie around his wrist. After a great deal of deliberation, he pulled his hair back into a ponytail and went to locate his make-up under last night's wildly discarded clothes.
9:50am Mandy was walking through the park, nowhere to be until after lunch and nothing in particular to do. There seemed to be some kind of commotion in the surrounding streets. An ambulance, then another, flashed past.
10:00am Pictures hit the screens. News spread out across the airwaves. Sirens screamed. Chaos erupted. And London stood still.
Seven bombs went off in London today. Several tube stations and a bus all went up in flames, supposedly the work of terrorists. Tony Blair left the G8 summit to be back in the capital. Where were you?