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Part 3 of Time After Time
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2005-06-27
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100
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9:00 AM - Switching

Summary:

One day ends, another begins.

Notes:

Follows directly from the end of Season 4. Third in a series of 24 24 drabbles. Can I manage the full cycle? Better yet, can I manage to post a drabble/day for 24 days? Stick around and find out. This particular part was written from the bottom up twice, thanks to a corrupt file. Many thanks to stewardess for rail timeline consultation, and to norah, who asked for 24 fic for her birthday, and then encouraged the bunny I was attempting to ignore. Special thanks on this part go to cinzia, mardahin, and brodeurbunny30, who collectively kept me from putting my fist through the monitor post-drabble-corruption.

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Exhaustion, unwelcome seatmate, set in muscles, mind, means. Muddled mumble, "keep driving," craving exile shared by three.

Fingers curled 'round bicep, gently shaking, tugging forward.

Listless lids responded slowly, shrugging off seductive sleep.

Engine idled, purring power; horses stabled, 'waiting starter's pistol. Tight-lipped smiles; exchanging warnings, welcome wishes, bon voyages. Awkward embrace, chest to side, strained by belted torsos; limbs akimbo, nervous laughter cloaking regrets, wounded pride.

Harder leaving when he's leaving his whole self behind.

Clicking wheels, ever onward, spoke a name no longer his. Trailed sounds stripped of their meanings, fainter still with every clack.

Jack-not-Jack.

Not Jack.

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