Drabble #52
Oct. 19th, 2009 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sagesariaPrompt: #83: Restless
Fandom: Flamingo Heights/Beyond Good and Evil+Naruto
Genre: Angst
Rating: G
Notes: Based on the RP again; Kakashi and Jade were dating, Kakashi ended up leaving and going home, and Jade, distraught, went for a drive cross-state to try to cool off. I had fun trying to work with this one. I think I could have focused a little more on…something, I’m not sure what, but it came out pretty good this time.
Jade stirred awake only when the sun glared through her window and disturbed her. Some stiff joints protested at her uncomfortable choice of bed as she moved, rolling onto her back and pushing herself upright, sweaty, unkempt hair falling all over her face.
She rubbed her eyes, gradually adjusting them to the bright surroundings. There was only the road ahead of her. The highway stretched as far as she could see, and only the occasional car sped by, rocking her vehicle as they passed.
That was when she remembered why she was in her hovercar, sleeping on the side of the road, and it all came back to her. Anger. Frustration. Guilt. Grief. Everything else she couldn’t put a word to that she felt in that lump of pain in her chest.
She dropped her head onto the steering wheel. Kakashi was gone. He left her on Christmas Eve. Or rather…she left him. He told her she was going home, and she threw it in his face. She insulted him and left him at the restaurant before they could even touch their Christmas ham. Then the next day he was gone, and only then she realized what she had said to him.
That was four days ago. Three hundred twenty five miles away. God, that far already? Jade only had a faint clue of where she had been going. All she knew was she had to be away from Flamingo Heights. Away from everything that had happened, from everybody she knew, everything. Just her, and the road. Going where the highway takes her, not stopping until her eyes grow heavy and she’s too exhausted to drive anymore. As long as she kept her eyes on the road, as long as she listened quietly to the hum of the engine and left the windows open for the wind to hit her face, she didn’t have to think about that night. Her mind could stay unfocused on the horrible things she said, or his final words before he disappeared. She didn’t even have to think of how she’ll never see him again.
But when she woke up the next day, she still felt everything as strongly as when she first left town.
Readjusting the driver’s seat that had been used as a bed, she sighed and reached for the ignition again.
She still had a long way to go.
Fandom: Flamingo Heights/Beyond Good and Evil+Naruto
Genre: Angst
Rating: G
Notes: Based on the RP again; Kakashi and Jade were dating, Kakashi ended up leaving and going home, and Jade, distraught, went for a drive cross-state to try to cool off. I had fun trying to work with this one. I think I could have focused a little more on…something, I’m not sure what, but it came out pretty good this time.
Jade stirred awake only when the sun glared through her window and disturbed her. Some stiff joints protested at her uncomfortable choice of bed as she moved, rolling onto her back and pushing herself upright, sweaty, unkempt hair falling all over her face.
She rubbed her eyes, gradually adjusting them to the bright surroundings. There was only the road ahead of her. The highway stretched as far as she could see, and only the occasional car sped by, rocking her vehicle as they passed.
That was when she remembered why she was in her hovercar, sleeping on the side of the road, and it all came back to her. Anger. Frustration. Guilt. Grief. Everything else she couldn’t put a word to that she felt in that lump of pain in her chest.
She dropped her head onto the steering wheel. Kakashi was gone. He left her on Christmas Eve. Or rather…she left him. He told her she was going home, and she threw it in his face. She insulted him and left him at the restaurant before they could even touch their Christmas ham. Then the next day he was gone, and only then she realized what she had said to him.
That was four days ago. Three hundred twenty five miles away. God, that far already? Jade only had a faint clue of where she had been going. All she knew was she had to be away from Flamingo Heights. Away from everything that had happened, from everybody she knew, everything. Just her, and the road. Going where the highway takes her, not stopping until her eyes grow heavy and she’s too exhausted to drive anymore. As long as she kept her eyes on the road, as long as she listened quietly to the hum of the engine and left the windows open for the wind to hit her face, she didn’t have to think about that night. Her mind could stay unfocused on the horrible things she said, or his final words before he disappeared. She didn’t even have to think of how she’ll never see him again.
But when she woke up the next day, she still felt everything as strongly as when she first left town.
Readjusting the driver’s seat that had been used as a bed, she sighed and reached for the ignition again.
She still had a long way to go.
