Title: Crash
Prompt #: 001
Word Count: 301
Rating: Teen
Characters: Doug/Tom, Dennis
Warning: Character Death
Doug stopped at the barricade made by cars with flashing lights. His heart froze as he saw Dennis standing there, a hand running through his black hair. Even from there, Doug could see him shaking.
"What happened?" Doug shouted as he jumped out of the car. He ran up to Dennis. He repeated himself.
"I- He- I couldn't," he stuttered.
Doug shook him harder than necessary. "What?" Dennis just pointed miserably to a car a few feet away.
Doug rushed behind the back of it to the front. He stopped abruptly when he saw what happened. "Oh, God!" The windshield was splattered with blood. A pool of the dark liquid surrounded Tom Hanson on the pavement. Doug slowly dropped to his knees, eyes unable to tear themselves from the lifeless form of his lover. Doug felt a hand on his shoulder, but he didn't look up to see who it belonged to.
"I couldn't do anything, Doug. It happened too fast," Dennis spoke softly.
But Doug had stopped listening. All he could see was Tom's face colored with blue and red lights. He could hear a low buzzing in his ears. It progressively got louder as the seconds ticked by. Dennis's voice was drowned out by the sound.
Doug was shaken gently out of his trance. "Doug, can you hear me?" Dennis asked. "Doug, snap out of it!"
Doug looked up and realized what the problem was. The paramedics needed to take Tom's body, but he was holding onto it tightly. He gradually released his grip and watched as they took his Tommy from him.
He got to his feet. His eyes met Dennis's and Booker had to look away from the pain reflected in them. When that car crashed into Tom, it was like it had taken Doug's life, too.