The Professionals Circuit Archive - Deaf in the Afternoon	  Deaf in
the Afternoon

 

by Slantedlight 

 
 *Written for the April two-day drabble challenge on the discoveredinalj
livejournal community*

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Doyle's ears rang. They hurt with the ringing, they screamed in unison
with the ringing, until his head pounded counterpoint and his heart
thrummed *nearly* and his nerves stretched to their limits. Too much
noise, in the un-sound that was all he could hear, and...

 Except...one word, over the madness of it all.

 It was a whisper of a word. A caress of a word. It was hands on his face,
it was closing his eyes, it was giving up the cacophony of *how* for the
glory of *why*. It was lips against his temples, cool and soothing.

 *Missed.*

 -- THE END --

 *April 2008*

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