writers_muses Prompt 73
Feb. 7th, 2009 12:28 am“Father?”
Angelus let go of the priest with a dull thump. He couldn’t believe it. It was her. His little Saint. He reached out towards the grating, and he could almost feel her pulse beneath his fingertips. He could feel her breath, certainly, coming in frightened little puffs as she murmured her supplications.
Despite the vast number of churches in the city, she’d managed to walk into his.
( If he’d been a younger and more impressionable vampire, he’d have put it down to fate. )
Prompt: won't go to heaven / she's just another lost soul, about to be mine / she was taken / and then forsaken / give your soul to me / for eternity -- 'Inside the Fire', Disturbed
Word Count: 996
Angelus let go of the priest with a dull thump. He couldn’t believe it. It was her. His little Saint. He reached out towards the grating, and he could almost feel her pulse beneath his fingertips. He could feel her breath, certainly, coming in frightened little puffs as she murmured her supplications.
Despite the vast number of churches in the city, she’d managed to walk into his.
( If he’d been a younger and more impressionable vampire, he’d have put it down to fate. )
Prompt: won't go to heaven / she's just another lost soul, about to be mine / she was taken / and then forsaken / give your soul to me / for eternity -- 'Inside the Fire', Disturbed
Word Count: 996