The Professionals Circuit Archive - Longing	    Longing

 

by Magenta Blue 

 
 *Written for the 2-Day Drabbles challenge on the discoveredinalj
livejournal community*


 The briefing is long and I try to focus, but I'd been at HQ since
yesterday and it was beginning to tell. That is, until the door behind
creaked. 

 I knew it was them, knew by the way the Controller twitched his lips, as
if he longed to tell them off like they were children. Sometimes he forgot
himself and did it anyway, and they'd respond like schoolboys, instead of
men that fired guns.

 They had the power to light up the room just by being there, even if the
electricity they created was for them alone. Sometimes, I'd sigh...

 -- THE END --

 *September 2007*

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