A/N: So I may well get back into writing things for this collection again. Mainly because a fic meme has started on the livejournal community, mentalistprompt. We'd love more people to join in - and you don't have to be a member to do so.
Okay enough shameless promotion. Thank you to: lisbon69, yaba, Divinia Serit, WildDaisies10, khalek-aeryn, Viktorija and Penelope Louise for reviewing Synchronicity, it's much appreciated. Especially so to lisbon69 who signed in anonymously.
x tromana
Title: think of something else
Rating: T
Characters: Jane/Lisbon
Notes: written for the new mentalistprompt fic meme
think of something else
One.
Two.
Her heart thrummed against her ribcage painfully, each beat catching against solid vertebrae.
Solid, stubborn.
Sore.
Three.
Four.
Thoughts clawed at the corner of her mind: 'You've failed your job. How could you think you could ever do this?'
Vicious, evil.
Cruel.
Five.
Six.
Her breathing was growing a little labored, each lungful of air stabbing at her sides.
Icy, persistent.
For now.
Seven.
Eight.
Glancing to her side briefly, shuddering at the sight of the gaping wound near her abdomen.
Bleeding, congealing.
Pain.
Nine.
Ten.
"You scared?"
He took her shaking hand, enveloped it in a welcome warmth.
"Me too."
And then, it was over.
Just as easily as it begun.
And your slow shaking fingertips
Show that you're scared like me
- Vulnerable, Secondhand Serenade