Drabble, And In Short, I Was Afraid, Viggo/Elijah, PG

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Title: And In Short, I Was Afraid
Author: Azrhiaz
Pairing: Viggo/Elijah
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Fiction, completely. Author not implying otherwise.
Author's notes: For ainigma.

It's the worst kind of mobius strip.

Elijah feels the panicked certainty that Viggo is lost to him, perhaps even dead. Words spill from the woman's cavernous, lipsticked mouth like ants. I'm sorry. We tried. Nothing he wants to hear.

So he forces himself awake, clawing up from the nightmare with nothing but determination to guide him. Eyes open, the clock-light is dim swamp green, the room cold.

Movement across the white ceiling—a trail of black ants. All else is still.

Elijah rolls over, blinks at the empty stretch of bed beside him, the pillow not even dented in.