Castle 100-word drabbles
A challenge from another board. Write a 100-word drabble for each of the following challenge words: snow globe; diary; laundry; trashcan.
Everyone is invited to play! It's harder than it sounds!
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Snow globe (104 words)
Kate's mom had always loved snow globes. She had sets for each holiday.
The Easter globes were out when she was killed.
Neither Kate nor her father could stand to put them away after she was killed. Easter remained for Memorial Day and Fourth of July.
Then, just before Thanksgiving, her dad drank himself into the first of many drunken rages. Kate came home to find the walls dented and the floors littered with glass, glitter and water.
She sat in the floor in a relatively dry spot and held a tiny rabbit in her hands. So fragile.
Like what remained of her family.
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Diary (96 words)
Rick knew Alexis kept a diary.
He had never read it. But tonight, he wondered about his little girl, out with the boy who had taken her to prom. He wandered down the hall to Alexis' room, peeked into the top drawer of the dresser. There it was.
As he was reaching for it, the sight of Kate's angry, tearstained face flashed through his mind.
"Going to betray another woman who trusts you, Castle?" mental-Kate asked.
Rick slammed the drawer and backed out of the room. Maybe he should finally learn to leave well enough alone.
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Laundry (100 words)
Unlike most people she knew, Kate had always enjoyed laundry day. Taking something dirty, making it clean. Kind of like her job, she supposed.
But with a fresher scent at the end.
She hummed along to Lady GaGa on her iPod as she folded towels, turning to find herself being observed.
"Castle!" she yelled, blushing. "What…?"
Rick stepped up to her, nuzzling her neck. She moaned.
"I came to help, Mrs. Castle, but you seem to have things well in hand." He bit her earlobe lightly and her arms went around his neck.
The towels had to be rewashed later.
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Trashcan (125 words)
Kate Beckett was cleaning out her desk, face set into hard lines. Personal items into a box, work papers into file folder, junk into the trashcan.
She couldn't have anticipated the reaction to the "real" Nikki Heat (ridiculous stripper name!). But she was hardly an effective police officer when everyone knew her.
So she was out.
She looked around the squad room. Esposito and Ryan had been reassigned. The Captain was conveniently at a meeting.
A delivery man appeared in the doorway, arms full of flowers. Another apology from the man who had ruined her career; hell, ruined her life.
"Kate Beckett?"
She nodded, took the flowers, and dropped them straight into the trashcan. Right onto her signed copy of the first Nikki Heat novel.