Noun, Verb

Author's Note: It's update week for me, so here's the conclusion of this 1 sentence challenge. I hope you all have enjoyed it. Once again, I'll share my favorites, since you've done the same for me. My favorites from the first set were Silk and View; from this set, my faves are Gravity and Eclipse.

Also, is it just me or is FF being retarded? For some reason, I can't respond to anyone's reviews, and yesterday, I couldn't review anything. Weird.

Enjoy,
Sara

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1 Sentence Challenge [50/50]

[26] Ice

Her eyes are like ice as she gazes out the window, away from him, and he knows this look (all too well), this is the you are in so much trouble look; he tries to loop his arm around her waist, but she scoots away.

[27] Fall

"I miss fall," she states one day, looking at him with a wistful smile before continuing, "In Miami, we didn't really have winter, but we had fall. I would be so miserable, so cold, even though it wasn't anything like most people's fall, but now I miss it. Isn't that weird?" and he thinks of all the times she's said something like this, something completely out of the blue, and all he can do in response is to lean in and kiss her.

[28] Forgotten

She's just a blur in his mind, brown hair and green eyes, a disembodied voice; he can't remember the way she smiled or the way she laughed, but it doesn't matter, because none of that was for him anyway.

[29] Dance

They watch Amy and Horace glide across the dance floor, thoroughly enjoying their first dance; Juliet smiles as she watches them, but when she glances at James, he is only looking at her intensely, "What?" she questions, but he only smiles and turns his attention back to the dance.

[30] Body

She's continually amazed by his physique, his muscles, his perpetual tan; sometimes she finds that she can't keep her hands off him, and she feels so foolish, running her hand absently up his arm, but he grabs her hand before she can pull away and grins, "You're beautiful."

[31] Sacred

The way he feels about her is unlike anything he's ever felt before, it's like something sacred, something he never expected to feel for her, or for anyone else, but when she whispers the three words he longs to hear, he is content.

[32] Farewells

She's going to Hydra Island for the weekend, but he will hardly let her step out the door; he keeps calling her back, asking her questions about where things are located (as if he doesn't already know), until she gently tells him that she's going to be late, and he looks sheepishly at the floor and says, "I'll miss you."

[33] World

"If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?" she asks, out of the blue again, and he answers, "A time-travelling island in the '70s with my favorite girl," and he loves to see her blush.

[34] Formal

He tugs at his black dress sock, trying to get it to cover the line of skin that is shown by his too-short dress pants, and he couldn't be any more uncomfortable, but when she descends the stairs, dressed in a black dress that accentuates every curve, he forgets about everything else.

[35] Fever

He takes the next three days off work, and he's by her side every moment, taking any advice that Horace or Amy can offer, until the fever finally breaks and she wakes from her stupor to find him sleeping soundly beside her, the first he's slept since she became ill.

[36] Laugh

He hears her laugh from across the quad, and he saunters toward the motor pool where she stands with two other men, and for some reason, he's infuriated, as if he thought that laugh was reserved only for him.

[37] Lies

"We can't do this," she says calmly as soon as their lips part, and she doesn't miss the disappointment in his eyes, "We're just a lie, you and I, none of this is real"; this is a lie, too, but she can't let herself fall for him, not so soon.

[38] Forever (sequel to Lies)

He catches her by the wrist before she can escape, and she looks down at him, "This is real," he says simply, "I've been waitin' my whole life to feel this way about someone, and it ain't a lie because I wouldn't know how to fake it."

[39] Overwhelmed

"This doesn't change anything," he insists, looking into her wild eyes, and he knows that she doesn't believe him (he doesn't believe himself); she runs her hands through her hair and shakes her head, "They're back, this changes everything."

[40] Whisper (sequel to Dream)

"I had a bad dream," he hears her whisper, and he doesn't know what to do; he presses himself against the back of the couch and extends his arm, and she squeezes in next to him, and he stays awake until her breathing evens out.

[41] Wait (sequel to Farewells)

He stays up late into the night, thinking she should have been back by now, and finally he hears her enter and before he knows what he's doing, he's at the front door and enveloping her in a hug.

[42] Talk

"We need to talk," she says, very seriously, and he knows those words mean something horrible is about to happen, but instead of talking, she leads him down the hallway into their room and points soundlessly at his dirty clothes on a heap besidethe hamper.

[43] Search

He catches sight of Amy, but Juliet is nowhere around, and as the others begin the slow count to the new year, he's too busy trying to find her to even realize what year it really is, and finally, he sees her sitting on the stoop of their home, and he begins to wonder why just the sight of her is a relief to him.

[44] Hope

It takes her a while to put a word with what she feels when she sees him coming through their front door every day with a foolish smile and, later on, a kiss for her, but she thinks maybe it's hope.

[45] Eclipse

She had everything, and then, like a shadow over the sun, she's lost it; she built this life for three years – cooked for him, cleaned for him, stayed for him…loved him, and in one look, it's gone, and no light remains.

[46] Gravity

It's something as simple and as complex as gravity that pulls them together, neither of them can or try to explain it – it's more than physical attraction, more than the fact they were stuck together, pretending; she finds everything she's missing in him, and he finds everything he needs in her.

[47] Highway

"Jesus Christ, Blondie!" he shouts over the engine's roar, "This ain't no damn interstate, these vans ain't meant to go this fast!" but she tilts her head back and laughs, and he is left to cling to the door, seat, or anything, and pray for his life.

[48] Unknown

"What if they do come back?" Juliet asks, watching him as he gazes down the beach, as if he is expecting them to walk up at any moment, and when he turns back to her, the look on his face says everything: he has no idea.

[49] Lock

It isn't the first time he's forgotten about plans they've made, and it certainly won't be the last, but she's so angry this time that when he finally comes home, his bedroom door is locked and he sleeps, cold, uncomfortable, and confused, on the couch.

[50] Breathe

"Come on, you son of a bitch," she says, and her breath hitches and pain seers through her abdomen and chest; this has to work, for her, for him, for everything she's worked so hard for and everything she's lost.