shiegra (shiegra) wrote in no_true_pair, @ 2009-01-06 20:38:00 |
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Entry tags: | ! 2009 eight characters challenge, author: shiegra |
dirty secrets (Original, Jim/Tabitha)
Title: dirty secrets
Author/Artist: shiegra
Fandom: Original
Pairing/characters: Tabitha/Jim
Rating: PG13
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Jim Wembley/Tabitha Marks, intoxication
Tabitha has long, slender, unscarred legs, with trim ankles and painted toes, but Jimmy only notices this when he's drunk.
Tabitha is really pretty, but Jimmy tries not to notice this at all. Besides the fact that her big He-Man/Gladiator/Dinosaur whatever would break him in two if she didn't get to it first, the scar bothers him.
Tabitha would never speak to him again if he told her, because he wouldn't be able to actually tell her, because Jimmy can't talk without stumbling over his words. It's not that it makes her ugly or flawed or anything like that, it's that it hurt her, and he can't handle that.
Can't handle the echo of her screaming nightmares to add to the multitude in his head, only a couple of those his own. He's a fucking coward and he knows it, but he still flinches when people other than Georgie try to touch him. Even though he knows that enjoying the power over them that it gives him makes him a goddamn hypocrite.
So it's only when he's really drunk, totally smashed, that he slurrs and tips his drink everywhere while gives Tabitha misty, adoring smiles. He's not dumb enough to let it mean anything to anyone but himself. August watches him keenly during those moments anyway, eyes dark and implacable; Tabitha wears her inscrutable smile and brushes it off, allowing nothing but amusement to slip past.
In a really perverse way, he likes that. It's not why he likes her--he went hopelessly down under her first bitter smile, under the scent of her hair and the brusque way she dressed wounds and bullied him into doing chores--but he likes that; that he can't really touch her. Of all of their little family, he makes her eyes change the least.
She's the only one he ever wanted to touch, but he's not going to touch anyone again unless it's to hurt them, so he's never going to touch Tabitha at all.