“It’s embarrassing, really, but my cousin Muriel entrusted me with their cat while they’re out of town and I… well I’m afraid I’m a disaster with animals. The poor thing has been hiding for the last five hours and I’m feeling awfully guilty about it. The other day, I saw you in the lobby and I noticed you had your cat with you, so I thought: well, maybe this young fellow knows how to handle this!”
Prompt 3/4 - In Vino Veritas / Set in Another Time
There was too much they survived together in the last two decades. The horrors they had heard — and had faced — were too much and too many to be talked about, and yet, here they were.
He had watched his friend change; her youthfulness and bright eyed awe harden and disappear forever — except for when she was among plants. There was now grey in her temples, diluting red wine into clear champagne, and all Ezra wanted to do was touch and kiss that downy hair, lay all his adoration there at the corner of her eyes where she would be forever able to feel. Time had not made the yearning any less easy.
Prompt 5/6 - Late night talks / Early Morning Walks
“What if I'm a bad parent?”
His first instincts were to laugh at the concept. In no universe it was possible that the most caring, loving and clever person he knew would be a bad parent. Of course, both of them would struggle and not be perfect; they were only human after all, but there was a burning certainty inside him that they'd be alright.
Written with the beautiful, delicious, fantastic @eybefioro 💛 for Flufftober 2025
