Moments In Time

by Ultrawoman

A collection of unrelated one-shots (more to be added soon!), originally written for a prompt memes, challenges, etc. at Livejournal, Dreamwidth, and AO3, re-posted here for those that have not seen them. Various lengths and ratings. Eliot/Parker except where otherwise stated in the chapter title.

64. Bend and Break

Title: Bend and Break
Prompt by: syrena_of_the_lake – '"everything I touch gets ruined" (quote from A Charlie Brown Christmas)'
Rating: PG-13/T
Setting: unknown
Originally posted: 16th January 2018
Notes: for rthstewart's 3 Sentence Fication 2019 at Dreamwidth.

"Don't," he urges her when her lips came so achingly close to his own, and yet he knows he doesn't sound convincing to her any more than to himself.

It isn't that he doesn't want her, far from it, because somehow, she has become the only thing in the world that really matters to him; it's only that he fears what might happen to him, and more so, to her, if he really let himself get close to someone again.

"You would never hurt me," says Parker so definitely, that Eliot actually let's himself believe it could be true, and then their lips meet and the world as they know it shatters all around them.