1. Beauty
For as long as John Young has known Cara Coburn she had never been one to get all dressed up. So when he first laid eyes on her in that blue dress, the night they were all to go topside, he can't help but notice how different she looks. It's beauty, but it's not a genuine beauty. The true beauty she shows when she pulls her brown hair into a ponytail. The beauty she shows when her forehead is covered in swear after they've spared. It's then that her beauty would catch him off guard. To him she's always beautiful.
27. Letters
They had made it clear to that the only people allowed on the ground floor of the new headquarters were Cara, Stephen, and Russell. Ultra may be gone, but they were still to be extremely cautious. Which is how Cara would find herself in the former Ultra lobby. She could've sworn she had felt someone. She had done a sweep of the floor. She didn't find anyone. What she did find was a letter left on the front desk. She found her name had been scrawled on the envelope. Without needing to open it she knew who it was from.
54. Broken
John was seven when he broke his first bone. His foster dad had hit him just one too many times snapping one of the bones in his arm. John had broke several ribs in his lifetime. He had broken one leg, and the same arm again when he was fifteen. The pain of those broken limbs did not compare at all to the pain he felt now. The pain of not being able to hear Cara's thoughts. The pain of knowing Cara had risked her life to save his. The pain of knowing his staying put her life in danger.
79. Diamond
Cara twists the ring on her finger. She has been doing it more now that John was gone. The ring had always been a promise. Not a one day we'll get married promise, no it was something more. The ring was a promise that one day when they didn't need to hide, that it could be just the two of them, and maybe Russell. They would go and find some quiet place to live. They could go and live in peace. Just the two of them. It was a promise that one day they could get their own happy ending.
53. Vanilla
John wasn't aware a scent would change the way he had been thinking. Astrid had to go light that vanilla candle after burning popcorn the two were going to eat as they watched some movie. His thoughts were no longer on movie night with Astrid, but instead a brown haired young women. He tried so hard to keep Cara out of his mind. But the scent of vanilla filled his thoughts with her. It was just like that and once more he was on bed with her, her hair covering his face, the smell of vanilla consuming his senses again.
So I'm doing the 100 prompt, 100 word, 100 drabble thing. I'm gonna do five per chapter I think. I apologize if these aren't that great. I'm having a hard time adjusting to the whole you can only have the drabble be 100 words.
