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Published:
2020-09-16
Updated:
2021-05-05
Words:
5,200
Chapters:
52/100
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Inkwell

Summary:

Their story is told in little fragments strewn across the floor, memories she didn’t know would matter until now.

She sits cross-legged with a pen in her teeth adding details to scattered post-it notes, everything she learned in retrospect, trying to make sense of her place in his life.

Trying to figure out if this is fate.

If this is meaningless.

If she’s the catalyst for change or the writer of destiny and if any of that means she can sleep through the night, guiltless and peaceful for the first time in years now that she’s landed in his arms.

Notes:

I decided to challenge myself to write some 100-word Drabbles and it became a narrative because I have no self-control. That said, I have no idea what the update schedule will be for this. I'll go with what feels right.

Enjoy! I'm posting the first three at once.

Chapter 1: Pages

Chapter Text

At the beginning of the story, Nathalie doesn’t realize how dangerous it is to be here. She walks into his life the way a stranger walks, with tentatively assumed indifference that can only grow an inch or two in either direction. But he is a man frank with his feelings, which makes it difficult to pretend she doesn’t belong, a habit that’s helped her survive her life up to this page. 

Unbeknownst that she is on paper, she doesn't see how likely they are to burn. When fire catches, it will be too late. They are doomed to ash, together.