Challenge: The Challenge: Write anywhere from 100-300 words based on the music provided. You can go with a literal interpretation of the song, base your drabble on the overall mood it inspires from your perspective, or just include a few lyrics that resonate with you.
There's no right or wrong way to approach this challenge, as long as you're incorporating the music somehow. -The Heart of Camelot
Song: Colorblind by Counting Crows
Category: Gen
Characters/Pairings: Merlin, Gwen. None.
Rating/Warnings: K+. Set after 5X13
Word Count: 262
I Am Fine
He dissapeared for over a month. No one knew where he had gone, where he had been. One day he was gone, and the next he was back, fading into the crowd as if it didn't matter, as if his friends didn't want to see him. He avoided them, never looking up from the ground. His eyes, once so carefree and friendly, were rarely seen and on those occasions that he did raise his head, they held none of the old Merlin. They were cold, lifeless, hopeless.
She had run to him the first time she saw him, not caring that she was now Queen, not caring that she had an image to preserve. All she cared was her friend was back, the man who was as close as a brother had returned. He had flinched away as she wrapped her arms around him, refused to answer her as she questioned where he dissappeared to. She had drawn back, sorrow overcoming her as she watched him fade back into the crowd.
She worked tirelessly for the next year, always coming to him, talking to him, trying to pull him out. He had withdrawn so deep inside himself she thought he would never emerge, would never go back to the man she had called brother. And then one day, he had looked up and met her eyes with a ghost of a smile and had whispered three simple words, three simple words that had lit up her life and brought the first genuine smile to both faces in so long.
I am fine.