And that's us at the end of the prompts!
Only took me 10 months!
I hope you enjoyed. Now perhaps I can go back and wrap up all my other half finished fics!
I love writing about these guys. Though at the moment I have lots of lovely, poetic sentences and descriptors sitting but no real concepts. So do let me know if any of you would like a particular prompt or storyline wrote about!
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50. STARS
"I used to wish for you, you know. When I saw a shooting one."
Romance is lost on Rachel. He's fairly sure she's never assumed anyone would say anything nice about her, ever.
She frowns at the sky, "For me to do what?"
"Dunno. Just anything I suppose. Leave your husband. Come back to me. Appear right in front of me. Like magic…" she is still staring upward. He doesn't think she's listening, "preferably with no clothes on or…?"
"Hmm." She's not really listening. She has stubbed out her cigarette and gone back inside, through the open french doors, to empty the dishwasher. When did they both take up smoking? Was it stress? Family? Children? Work? Was it an excuse to be outside, in the dark, in the silence, once everyone else was asleep? An excuse to look at the stars?
Perhaps she was a romantic after all.
"Make another one. Make it good."
It is his turn to scowl, "what?"
"Well, it worked, didn't it?"
"Huh?"
She looks at him as if he is dense. As if she is about to burst out laughing. She had looked at him like that long ago. When he had badly worn a mismatched tie to try and impress her. He thinks he fell in love with her when she looked at him like that. With sparkly eyes. If he looks close enough, even with her at a distance, he thinks he can see the whole clear night sky reflected in them.
"You wished for me…"
She laughs at the ceiling, opens out her arms and twirls in bare feet on the kitchen floor, so fast that her skirt fans out and spins with her. She stops, facing him, in a theatrical stance and for the first time tonight he can tell she has had a little too much to drink. They must stop drinking and smoking at the weekends.
"And so it was."
Fin.
