HUMANITY
STORY SUMMARY: What does it take to be human? 100 drabbles of 100 words. Prompts from drabbles100 LJ community.
DISCLAIMERS: Nothing's mine.
CANONICAL NOTES: I'm playing fast and loose here. I once knew the entire storyline up to "Viva Las Vegas" and bits of pieces of everything after that. Now, I've been away from the fandom a while. I don't feel like researching. It's the concepts of the peeling back the characters' skins that has me excited more than anything, and that's the way it oughta be.
Prompt: 002. Middles
Monsters
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He found her screaming.
Alex was dead. Tess's mind refused to understand that this could be possible. Her mouth refused to stop screaming. They had done this before. She had done this before, and nobody had ever gotten hurt.
Her eyes caught the dawning horror in Kyle's, and for a heart-wrenching moment, she almost did it, reached out and took the understanding away from him, the only one who had ever accepted her. She didn't want him to see her as a monster.
She clamped her mouth shut and stopped herself mid-thought. If she did that—God, she would be.
