Sentinel Drabble 'Good Boy' Jim

[janedavitt]

Title Good Boy
Character Jim as child
Rating PG
Length Drabble
Spoilers References 'Remembrance'

Written for the sentinel_thurs challenge of 'dreams'.


Good Boy

He dreams of seeing a bird's eye gleam darkly as it wheels high overhead, its wing-beats harsh flutters. Dreams of a woman glimpsed across the football field, a friend's mother, so his arousal is shame-spiced, but she reeks of sex as well as Chanel. Deep in the woods surrounding the field, he sees a man, and he knows and shares their guilt.

Dreams and wishes memories wouldn't flood his head as he sleeps.

Dreams he's still a freak, and hopes he wakes to find he's normal, Dad's good boy, his favorite.

Please.

Let tomorrow be the day he's normal again.