(im)perfect
Word count: 100
Characters: Dom, Shade!Mal
Rating: G
Prompt: Beauty doesn't strive off of the wonderful and amazing - it comes from the broken and destroyed and works to make it something more.
A hand snakes itself around his shoulder, winding up, up, up... her voice is like a siren's call.
Beauty, Dom. Perfection is not beauty. Perfection is a dream. Beauty is a shattered mirror put back together so it glitters andshines so much brighter than before.
Cobb shudders. He grips the edge of the window that has appeared in front of him, with billowing curtains and its counterpart in front.
Look at me, Dom, my darling. Tell me you love me!
He knows she is no more than memories rearranged and repurposed, love and guilt entwined.
She is beautiful regardless.