in here
by Susan

E-mail: touchstone98@tx.rr.com
Classification: a moment-in-time prose thingie
Spoiler: I Want to Believe
Archive: No archive without permission.
Disclaimer: On paper, these characters aren't mine.
In my head, they are.

Summary: in here
         she knows he's safely tucked
         beneath the covers next to her


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in here
in this quiet room for two
he slips into bed behind her

stop it that's cold, she giggles
as he runs his bare toes
along the tops of her feet

but she doesn't really mind 
that his feet are cold

just as she doesn't mind 
the stubble on his chin
now scraping across her cheek

in here
she knows he's safely tucked
beneath the covers next to her

not trapped 
in a car 
tumbling
       down 
a hill
      covered
           in snow 


not dizzy
and bleeding
   and wandering
       alone
in the woods

not draped
  over the trunk 
of a tree
  with an axe
       looming
             above
            his head

no, in here
on this night
in this quiet room for two

she can feel the arch of his foot
sliding down her leg

feel his warm body
gently pressed against her back

and the soft touch 
of his lips
on the curve of her neck

and it is 
just what she needs


~end~

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