Drabblage: Earth

[beer_good_foamy]

Happy birthday mygothangel and bruisexviolet83!

Also, drabble for open_on_sunday's challenge "Earth":

It's All Connected
Post-"Grave"

Willow leans against a tree half a world from home, feeling the bark, the roots, the earth.

So much life, power, possibility, loneliness.

So easy to reach out all the way to a California graveyard, caress her coffin, tell the worms to stay the hell away, preserve her, fix the unfixable. Maybe even...

So tempting to violate natural order, everything her lover believed in. To tell herself it's for Tara's sake, not her own. To slip into darkness.

Giles keeps finding Willow on paved roads, second floors, in rubber-tyred cars, crying, begging to be disconnected, weakened, unable to hurt anyone.


I'm not really this morbid in real life. Promise.

Comments

[mygothangel.livejournal.com]

Thank you, honey!
Great drabble!

[boy-named-susie.livejournal.com]

Powerful piece. Love it.

[scarlettlily.livejournal.com]

Wow that was fantastic. Great job.

[selinamoonfire.livejournal.com]

I don't think it was morbid. I think it's beautiful and shows the depth of Willow's pain and how strong she had to be not to give into temptation.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Very poignant and scary look at Willow during her "recover" period. Nicely done.

[jaded-jamie.livejournal.com]

Wow this was powerful, emotive, just an awesome peek into grief! Really good.

[keith5by5.livejournal.com]

Very touching.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

That's very much something I could see really happening. Poor Willow, trying hard to get over the temptation -- the addiction. Well done.