drabbles week one: escape

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GHM DRABBLE CHALLENGE
HOW TO PLAY?

Every Monday at 12 PM PST, I will post a prompt. You have until the following Monday at noon PST to write and reply with a 100-200 word fic, i.e. a 'drabble', inspired by the prompt. (For an extra challenge, try to hit exactly 100 words!)

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WHAT ELSE?

You may post more than one response to a single week's prompt! :)

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If you're inspired to continue your drabbles, you're welcome to connect multiple challenge responses to each other, or expand on your fics outside of the challenge.

week one:
ESCAPE

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[(Anonymous)]

Characters: Travis/Badman
Rating: P, for pining (G... it’s G)
Word Count: 100

I'll leave tomorrow, Birkin's said for weeks now-- and in the meantime, a chipped ashtray sits on the second floor railing, overlooking the parking lot. He never really leaves for long. Like Travis, he's an old dog, long set in his ways.

So perhaps it’s his own habits that keep him leaning in his doorway, watching the smoke bloom from Birkin's lips. The man’s cigars are stinking, heady, but they bring back Texas, too: Travis summons the rest up on cue, the air through the trees, the fresh odor of wet earth.

Birkin exhales through his nostrils without looking back.