Drabble: Two Abby/Claudia Drabbles

I Don't Want to Know about Evil, I just Want to Know about Love

Sometimes, in the first confusion of waking, Abby had the faintest recollection of an arm draped across her waist. She had the memory of the sensation of breasts pressed against her back. She sometimes thought she could see a drift of auburn hair across her shoulders and onto the pillow which glimmered golden brown in the morning sunlight.

So it was that, when sick to the heart of Leek's treachery and the death and the destruction, it seemed completely natural to her to seek solace in Jenny's arms. She wept uncontrollably while a soft voice murmured

"Hush, my love, hush."

I'm Waiting for the Cities to Crumble

Abby trudged up the hillside, Claudia at her heels.

"Are you sure we're headed in the right direction?" asked Claudia.

Abby looked at the compass in her hands. "Helen said due east."

"I wish I trusted Helen more."

"So do I."

They crested the brow of the hill. Abby felt Claudia's hand clasp her own. Vegetation grew over the ruined city below them, adding a green haze to the buildings. Abby could see the outline of a dome and spires.

"I studied at Oxford," whispered Claudia.

I'm waiting for the cities to crumble. sang a half-remembered lyric in Abby's head.