[Drabble] Nightmares (The Great Escape)

[valmora.livejournal.com]

Title: Nightmares
Author: Val Mora
Fandom: The Great Escape, the movie
Pairing: Danny/Willie, possibly unrequited
Rating: PG, if you don't count the slash hints.
Warnings: Angst.
Disclaimer: Not mine; all to MGM/UA. The guys Willie was composited from were most likely NOT gay.
Notes: This was written for figletofvenice because she gave me a link to a Great Escape fic. Even though I'd already read it, I'm still grateful. Also, this is an honestly-100-word-drabble.


Nightmares

Willie can hear him gasping, desperate, in the dark beneath his bunk. It wakes him, Danny’s fear, and by now, shaking Danny awake to rescue him from the nightmares has become as much routine as the digging.

What is routine, too, is the way touching Danny’s wide shoulders makes Willie’s hands burn, and how Willie always makes himself let go the moment he knows Danny’s awake. If he doesn’t then, he can’t imagine that he ever will, and – not here. Not when Danny’s so desperately afraid of the dark and the night and the earth above him in his dreams.

Comments

[figletofvenice.livejournal.com]

This is really lovely. You quite skillfully packed a lot of telling character details into such a short story. Nice. (I really like the last sentence.)

[valmora.livejournal.com]

Thanks! (That's my favorite line too, for some reason.)