Dark Angel: Memento 3/5 (Jondy)

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Title: Memento 2/5
Author: lexie_b
Feedback: is beloved if you feel so inclined.
Characters: Brin, Tinga, Jondy, Jace, Max.
Word Count: 261
Rating: PG
Prompt: Weeks at fanfic100
Genre: Angst, drama
Summary: One moment in the lives of the X5 women.
Disclaimer: Property of James Cameron.

Jondy.
She sits on the bathroom floor, one leg jiggling as she waits, watching the second hand on her watch; plastic and pink, with butterflies. Eight bucks from some street vendor, and not water proof – it’s her third watch in two months and she’s got three dollars in the bottom of her backpack.

The test balances on the edge of the sink, and she rests her head in her hands. Six weeks since her last heat and she’s been sick - sicker than she ever remembers being, not even after the vaccinations during that long winter when half the X5s ended up in the infirmary.

She wonders what she’ll do, if the test comes out positive while she sits here, in the bathroom of Walmarts. She’s got a backpack of things and nowhere to go; her only money comes from picking pockets and thieving.

“Honey, are you okay in there?” Someone knocks on the bathroom door and Jondy jumps, straightening up.

“I’m fine!” she calls out and checks her watch. Two minutes to go. She twists a lock of her hair into a braid, sliding pink clips into her hair and waiting.

“Miss?”

A minute – the same it took for Eva to fall, for Max to slip through the ice, to determine what happened next to her. Her nails are bitten raw

“Miss, I’m getting a shop assistant.”

Three, two, one.

Negative.

Her hand is on her bag, and she slips from the bathroom, tossing the test in the trash can and before it even hits her, she’s emerging onto the street.

Comments

[savannahjan.livejournal.com]

A minute – the same it took for Eva to fall, for Max to slip through the ice, to determine what happened next to her.
Great line. Totally makes sense that she'd think along those lines at that time.