Love in an Unexpected Place
This little tidbit is from a prompt: write about finding love in an unexpected place.
Trey shuffled across the room, the tile floor cold and hard beneath his bare feet. The lights were all dimmed, but he could still see with a clarity that even he found surprising. The lab coat he had pilfered did little to cover up his nakedness or warm him up. But he would worry about finding more clothes later. For now he was only concerned with finding the source of the noise he had heard.
As he reached the far wall of cubicles, he noticed that one door has slid slightly ajar. He felt the first fingers of fear dipping into his chest, but his curiosity was still overwhelming. He reached out and opened the door. Inside, the cubicle was dark and silent.
"In for a penny, in for a pound," he muttered to himself. Though it sounded more like Infp-y, infp-owd to his own ears. He reached into the cubicle and pulled out the sliding drawer.
On all the cop shows he used to love on TV, body bags were always black. So he was mildly surprised to see that this particular body bag was white, and not quite opaque enough to hide the body inside. His hand quivering, he reached for the zipper and slowly slid it open.
The bag fell away, revealing a woman. Her raven hair offset her pale skin and blue lips in a way that probably made her even more beautiful in death than she had been in life. She was slim, but not too slim, and fine boned. To Trey, she looked like a fragile porcelain doll. He reached out and gently stroked her full, blue lips with his thumb.
Her eyes flew open so suddenly that he almost stumbled over his own uncooperative feet as he tried to back away quickly. Blue, he thought to himself as he watched her slowly sit up, looking around in confusion. Her eyes are ice blue.
She looked at him, bewildered. He saw her eyes go wide as she noticed he was naked under his lab coat. Her eyes went even wider when she realized she was completely naked in front of a stranger.
She looked at him, fear causing her eyes to glow fetchingly, and opened her mouth. "nggg, mmmm," she gasped, her mouth working like a fish's.
Realizing her words made no sense to herself, she reached up and gingerly touched her fingers to her lips, as if checking to see if they moved. She paused, staring at her hand, finally noticing just how pale and blue-tinged her complexion had become. She looked at Trey again, her eyes pleading and helpless.
He thought she was the most beautiful creature he had ever seen in his life.
He shuffled over to her, his arms, though leaden, reaching out to her. "Inng kay. Uv ooo."
Everything's okay. I love you.
Trey shuffled across the room, the tile floor cold and hard beneath his bare feet. The lights were all dimmed, but he could still see with a clarity that even he found surprising. The lab coat he had pilfered did little to cover up his nakedness or warm him up. But he would worry about finding more clothes later. For now he was only concerned with finding the source of the noise he had heard.
As he reached the far wall of cubicles, he noticed that one door has slid slightly ajar. He felt the first fingers of fear dipping into his chest, but his curiosity was still overwhelming. He reached out and opened the door. Inside, the cubicle was dark and silent.
"In for a penny, in for a pound," he muttered to himself. Though it sounded more like Infp-y, infp-owd to his own ears. He reached into the cubicle and pulled out the sliding drawer.
On all the cop shows he used to love on TV, body bags were always black. So he was mildly surprised to see that this particular body bag was white, and not quite opaque enough to hide the body inside. His hand quivering, he reached for the zipper and slowly slid it open.
The bag fell away, revealing a woman. Her raven hair offset her pale skin and blue lips in a way that probably made her even more beautiful in death than she had been in life. She was slim, but not too slim, and fine boned. To Trey, she looked like a fragile porcelain doll. He reached out and gently stroked her full, blue lips with his thumb.
Her eyes flew open so suddenly that he almost stumbled over his own uncooperative feet as he tried to back away quickly. Blue, he thought to himself as he watched her slowly sit up, looking around in confusion. Her eyes are ice blue.
She looked at him, bewildered. He saw her eyes go wide as she noticed he was naked under his lab coat. Her eyes went even wider when she realized she was completely naked in front of a stranger.
She looked at him, fear causing her eyes to glow fetchingly, and opened her mouth. "nggg, mmmm," she gasped, her mouth working like a fish's.
Realizing her words made no sense to herself, she reached up and gingerly touched her fingers to her lips, as if checking to see if they moved. She paused, staring at her hand, finally noticing just how pale and blue-tinged her complexion had become. She looked at Trey again, her eyes pleading and helpless.
He thought she was the most beautiful creature he had ever seen in his life.
He shuffled over to her, his arms, though leaden, reaching out to her. "Inng kay. Uv ooo."
Everything's okay. I love you.
posted by Doug Graves at 10:16 PM
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