Title: One Day
Couple: Alec/Embry
Prompt: #18: photograph
Word Count: 164 words
One Day
The photograph sits on the dresser, the only thing in the entire room giving any indication of its occupant. Inside of the frame is a simple picture of two young men: one is Alec, and the other is one evidently of Native American descent. Both of them are smiling, the other has his arm slung over Alec's shoulders and their closeness and the openness of their expressions leads one to infer that they're very close.
But tucked into one corner of the frame are a series of pictures from a photo booth.
Three of them contain the usual fooling around, but the last one is just the two of them smiling at the camera; out of sight of its gaze, their hands are entwined.
Alec knows the story behind each picture, keeps them close and shares them with no one. For him, they serve as a constant reminder of what it is that he works so hard for.
The chance to see Embry again.
FIN.