And When We Speak (andwhenwespeak) wrote in tv_100, @ 2009-01-19 22:50:00 |
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Entry tags: | fandom: numb3rs, prompt #72 |
prompt #72 - bliss
Title: 100 Around the Bends
Fandom: Numb3rs
Characters/Pairing: Nikki Betancourt
Rating: G
Word Count: 210
Challenge/Prompt: #72 - bliss
Summary: Something about a city.
Something about a city, about this city. With the smog and the ocean and the cars and the smell and the palm trees and the brilliant orange sunsets that can light you up inside and take your breath away, every last time.
Nikki doesn't trust anything that comes easy. She's always on the defensive, always ready for a fight and sometimes that's not the way to be, but it's the way she is, and she lives with it, lives around it.
Maybe she's not perfect, maybe not even close, but she's trying and that's what counts, day-to-day. That you get out of bed and drink your coffee and strap on a gun and do what you can, what you're able, what you believe to be the right thing. That's what matters.
An honest life takes courage, her mother used to say, and Nikki would nod, solemnly, knowing one day she would understand.
The city sprawls and lingers, grown up out of the desert like something miraculous. Built by ideas, by dreams, by people, brick by brick. Nikki inches forward in the traffic, lazy arm out the window, tapping her nails on the side of the car.
She should turn the air conditioning on, she knows. But she likes the heat.