Dark Angel: Memento 1/5 (Brin)

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Title: Memento 1/5
Author: lexie_b
Feedback: is beloved if you feel so inclined.
Characters: Brin, Tinga, Jondy, Jace, Max.
Word Count: 231
Rating: PG
Prompt: Hours at fanfic100
Genre: Angst, drama
Summary: One moment in the lives of the X5 women.
Disclaimer: Property of James Cameron.

Brin.
She sits slumped in the alley for hours, a hat low over her eyes and the damp from the concrete seeping through her jeans. She’s got a dollar twenty in her pocket and she’s in trouble. If someone looked in on her apartment, they’d see her coffee cup broken on the lino in the kitchen. They’d see pasta boiling all over the stove and slopping on the kitchen floor.

They’d see the television playing loudly, the contents of her bag tossed all over the couch, all the money and her I.D. gone.

The door would be open, and her keys would be hanging out of the door – she forgot her Tryptophan and had tried to go back for it, but her key had stuck – like it always, always did.

She left with a dollar fifty in her pocket, made a phone call to Zack’s voice mail. “Zack, it’s me. Lydecker’s here, in North Dakota. I need help, he’s combing the city and I have no way of getting out without you.”

She’s waiting in the freezing cold, wishing her old gloves had fingers – they’d unraveled and she’d cut them off in frustration. She’s leaning on the side of the Dumpster, and she feels sick, knowing that every hour that passes and Zack doesn’t turn up, Lydecker gets closer. Zack might not have even checked his messages.

And she waits.