As is my habit after finishing a long story, (in this case, Scientific Method,) I took requests for drabbles in my LiveJournal. These two were written at the request of LJ's dragontalon666 and ff net's Tazo. Both are exactly 100 word drabbles.
If I Die Before I Wake
"I returned as you ordered, my Lady."
"No, Walter." Her tone was sorrowful, her eyes red from fatigue and smoke and unshed tears. "You didn't."
She had ordered him to return alive, not like this.
He shifted in the chains of shadow that Alucard had laid on him. His expression darkened and for a moment a cruel arrogance was overlaid on his sharp features. "If I died, it was for you."
"I know."
She held out a hand and Alucard silently placed one of Anderson's silver blades in it – a replacement for her fallen sword.
"Once more, and then rest."
Introductions
The two boys regarded each other warily across the trench. They'd already tried sparring and found themselves well matched.
Which would be fine in Walter's opinion, if the other boy didn't stand between him and his quarry. "Why are you helping them?"
"Because that's what the Father told me to do."
The Father? Did he mean his father? Or something else?
Walter had no time to ask before the Germans began another artillery attack.
"What's your name?" he called as the boy took advantage of the barrage to open some distance between them.
"Marco Renaldo. Don't forget."
Oh, he wouldn't.