All the turns not taken

by Blink-Ink-Quill

SPOILERS FOR THE MAIN WORK (2 LEFTS, THEN A RIGHT) Various drabbles / what-ifs that may /not make it into the main story. So, I'm posting this because it's been sitting in my drafts and I don't wanna forget where I put the document again. SPOILERS FOR THE MAIN WORK (2 LEFTS, THEN A RIGHT) TW: depression, suicidal thoughts If not tw was not covered, pls dm.

4. Off the edge

I was just going to put the files on her desk. That was all. But I caught a whiff of her perfume, could feel her body heat under me. Was caught in the fantasy, a daydream of us, instead of her and me.

It was so easy to forget myself in the moment, to ask her to look at me, to hold her chin in place as I lowered to kiss her. Just looking at her face, the way her eyelids fluttered. At the slight blush and the twitch of her nose.

Then, she twisted her head away from, sneezing rapidly a few times in succession. That shocked me, pulled me back. She didn't reciprocate, not the way I wanted her to. Not yet. Maybe not ever.

Seeing the way she clustered the handful of tissue paper over her nose to obscure her face before she dashed off to the bathroom, I thought it best that she didn't see me for a while, and left.