Drabble Challenge: Anticipation

[feliciacraft]

Title: Anticipation
Characters: Giles
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 100
Setting: BtVS Season 2, Episode 17
Last line to be used as my first: “Giles started counting.” (Kudos to wakeupinacoma for the zinger!)

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Giles started counting.

Thick with anticipation, the air congealed around him, almost immobilizing. He needed to focus on something tangible to calm his quickening breaths, to tame his bursting heart, to rein in his mind, racing wild.

So he narrowed his focus on the immediate: The stairs he could no longer feel beneath his feet. The gentle sways of his arm, the soft clicks of the bottle against the wine glasses in his hand. The scattered rose petals, a deep maroon almost black in the darkness. The flickers of the votive candles that illuminated his path.

To where death awaited.

Comments

[wakeupinacoma]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[feliciacraft]

Sorry.

I'll have Giles make you a cup of tea to make you feel better...

[wakeupinacoma]

I am literally sitting down with a cup of tea. I mean, I made it myself but the imagination is a wonderful thing.

[il_mio_capitano]

That's a downer. But very well done. :)

[feliciacraft]

Yeah, sorry. And thanks. :)

[quaggy]

Oh my gosh! All the emotions!! Your imagery is wonderful!

[feliciacraft]

Awww, thank you! :)

[littleotter73]

Whoa! Way to tug at the heartstrings! Well done, you!

[feliciacraft]

Thank you! :)

[sparrow2000]

Lovely atmospheric build up and such tragedy in the last line. Well done.

[feliciacraft]

Aww, thanks! :)

[will_conqueror1]

*cries eternally*

Very well done. That was such a heartbreaking scene in the show and the moments leading up to it are the perfect setting for a drabble.

[feliciacraft]

I'm so sorry to have made you cry. :(

Needless to say that scene has stayed with me. Thank you so much for reading and for your comment! :)

[the_huffster]

-sobs-

You picked the perfect setting for this. Kudos.

[feliciacraft]

Sorry my reply came so late. Thank you kindly for the comment!

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[yourlibrarian]

Such a horrifying yet somehow perfect moment in the series.