#7: Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.
The sound of his mirth rumbles through Cas and into Dean. It’s a joyous sound, incongruous to the setting. Almost startling him out of his laser focus on Cas’s body.
That sound really shouldn’t be here. Maybe his imagination is still good enough to think they’re somewhere else. Somewhere they should have been. He’s getting depressed, but Cas’s mouth is on him again. It’s sucking out the air, thoughts, everything. He’s so grateful. Blessed. Happy. He tangles his fingers into Cas’s hair, pulling him closer. Cas’s fingers close around Dean’s cock, stroking once up and massaging over the tip. “Ah, fuck, you can still work miracles,” Dean gasps. Happiness. He hopes it’s fleeting as much as he’s enjoying it now. It can’t sustain the life he lives. He knows that. Happiness can only get him killed faster, but in this illusion of privacy, it’s delicious. He’s high on it.
This is from my Endverse oneshot, Rituals for the End of the World. I loved this moment, and in fact writing this whole oneshot, because it’s one of the few, and maybe only, times where I can honestly say, “this came out exactly as I’d planned. The right words were in the right place the whole time.” And that’s a big deal for me, seeing as I’m not much of a prose person. I’m much more comfortable with dialogue.
AND THE OTHER (in honor of you):
Kaidan held his breath until he felt close to blacking out. For a moment, the sounds and screaming and shouting of nurses and doctors faded into a dull, pounding roar, like the ocean he remembered visiting in high school. He should have gone back some time. It had been so peaceful. Blacking out. His vision tunneled, the edges the same color as the tag he was staring at. Slowly… the soldier on the bed lifted his arm, dangling the tag off of his wrist. He opened his mouth and Kaidan’s lips parted, too. Help me. Now. Kaidan was sure the man hadn’t been able to speak. But he wouldn’t have heard, anyway. It was all fading to blackness. Was that even what the soldier had said? His face was fierce.
I think about this fic I wrote for you all the time. It’s another case of the words and ideas just being there how I pictured them and how they should have been. If any of you are wondering, this is from War, After (Feels Like Home) that I wrote for @ltleflrt after stealing her Mass Effect OC and fucking him up good.
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