Okay, so. This is from the R/T ficathon challengey-thing. For a better explanation, go to my profile. M'kay?

Title: "Chameleon Rock"?
Author:
BasketKiwi
Format & Word Count:
drabble; 100 words(!)
Rating: PG
Prompt:
#5 (Magnetic Fields lyrics)
Warning:
Erm. Supreme awfulness? It's kinda . . . Well, I'll let you decide.
Summary: He dreams of chameleons and dead roses. (Rather blunt, huh?)

Author's Note: Yay! It's 100 words exactly. There are, like, 50 crossed out words, but I did it! Oh, and the chameleon symbolism has probably been used before, but I couldn't think of anything else to represent her properly.


Remus clings to a rock face, hands gripping tightly and feet scratching at the cliff. Sometimes he finds a foot-hole and climbs up. Others his feet slip and he dangles over the abyss, with only his bloody fingers keeping him up. Once he saw a chameleon on a ledge and floated upwards for days.

Now it calls, "Let go!" And he does, but he's scared and, halfway down, grabs onto a rose bush protruding from the rock. But the roses are dead and the thorns sharp.

Remus vows that this will be his last chameleon dream. But it won't be.


Author's Note: Yeaaah. As per usual with my writing, some people will be confused. I'm pretty bad with dreams, in which there's all this symbolism that is so obvious to me because, duh, I thought of it, but isn't so obvious to the people reading. So, it's kind of like Remus' life, sometimes he catches a break and other times...not so much. When he meets Tonks I imagine whatever troubles he had must have not seemed so...troubling anymore, hence the floating! ;D When she tells him to let go of the cliff he does, and kinda drifts towards her, but he gets scared and he grabs a rose-bush protruding from the side of the cliff and...well, he kind doesn't have enough faith or trust or whatever to believe that Tonks loves him, too, and can handle anything his age/salary/furrylittleproblem can throw at her. So, the roses are dead and, ow, thorns. That's kinda the jist of it. Not that I think about it, the explanation was probably longer than the fic itself and you're probably just more confused...