Drabble: Growing Pains (Giles, FRC)

[il_mio_capitano]

Title: Growing Pains
Author: il-mio-capitano
Length: 100
Rating: FRC
Characters: Giles


Love could be so complicated, Giles found. Intoxicating and infuriating, liberating yet enslaving. He'd thought he was done with such conflicts, that the passage of time had numbed his susceptibility to prurient pursuits, and yet here he was again, stumbling over his words, eager to impress, desperate not to fail.

He thought of Ripper, but Ripper was sex and cynicism, a cloak of sneer and cigarettes, a shield to protect the stuttering boy from failure that ultimately achieved only a hollow feeling inside.

He needed more than that now. He needed to share love. It was time to grow up.

Comments

[usedtobeljs]

Interesting piece -- I like the way you're using doubled adjectives and nouns to set up oppositions.

[littleotter73]

Absolutely fantastic!

[protoneoromantic]

Good job with the emotional content here. The frustration really comes across. Prurient is an awfully strong word here though, unless you want to communicate that sex is both trivial and disgusting.

[il_mio_capitano]

It possibly took a different direction mid way through, so maybe you're right. I'll be honest, it's not my Best Ever Work. ;)

[sparrow2000]

Giles on the brink of maturity - it's a lovely image.