Prompt 059, Free For All, Manly Book.

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Title Power
Author saracen77
Rating G
Word Count 100
Prompt 059 Free For All
Characters Book
AN Big thanks to ubiquirk for a wonderful beta job, and all the encouragement she freely gives.



Power

The gun in his hand felt slick and oily. It was a once familiar, but now completely alien object in his hand.

Oh, he had made the glib remark about kneecaps, and in the time before, that would have been the macho thing to say. Today, it turned to ashes in his mouth.

It was funny, he reflected as he waited with Simon, how perspective changed as you grew older.

As a young man, the power had been in the metal and the fight. Today, the power was in the idea, the passion, and the white collar at his throat .

Comments

[redrikki.livejournal.com]

Nice look at Book's character with some tantalizing hints about his back-story.

[saracen77.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I always really hoped that Joss would fill in Book's blanks for me, but hasn't seemed to have got round to it yet... I have to resort to making these things up!

Thanks again for your feedback.