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Summary: Flash Fiction. Want to create your own? See the note below.
Warning: Character death (don't worry, you don't know him).
Thanks to DaniWilder for beta reading the story and for proposing the challenge you'll read about below.
McKeller Flash Fiction
Never the Same
by Koinekid
Jennifer longed for the old Rodney, whose rude, awkward manner still coiled up and stung like a serpent when she needed the simple comfort a more naturally intuitive man could provide. Today, he was sweet without being effervescent, comforting without assuming he could fix everything, gallant and understanding. In some dim corner of her mind, she knew she'd look back on the memory and be grateful. For now, she spoiled for a fight.
Holding her, he began to sway. That was all the trigger she needed. She gave him a vicious shove, toppling him. Anger flashed red and dangerous in his eyes. Her heart screamed for her to lean down and check him for injuries. But why? Her medical skill hadn't save the most important man in her life. What could it do for Rodney?
She watched him stand and dust himself. Then she turned her back, bracing herself against the slam of a door. She heard not so much as a click. Turning back, she found the anger fled from his eyes.
A sob broke from her throat, and the other most important man in her life risked taking her in his arms again.
A light shone on that corner in her mind where Rodney had staked his claim. But it was a small light in a house darkened by grief. There, as here, she was not the strong career woman, nor the passionate lover. Nor was she any more a daughter. In the study with its coffin-like smell of musty books – in Ian Keller's study – Jennifer was a little girl who'd lost her daddy. And nothing would ever be right again.
The End
All right, McKellerites, it's challenge time: Koinekid, in conjunction with Her Royal Awesomeness DaniWilder, challenges you to create your own McKeller Flash Fiction. In three hundred words or less (according to the word processor of your choice), write us a story, describe a feeling or give us an encounter. Then publish on FFN. McKay and Keller do not have to appear in the story, but they must play an important part. This is the perfect excuse for those of you who've never published to give it a shot. We look forward to reading.
