Snippet Saturday!

[agilebrit]

Back with Ben. And go:

Ben snapped awake to find the collar around his neck, his arms cuffed far too tightly behind him, and wolfsbane wrapped around his bare chest. How had he gotten covered in blood? Was that Ange's blood? In his mouth?

A fist in his hair lifted his head off the ground as the air left his lungs. "What did you do to her?" Perez, shouting at him, and he didn't actually know--

"I can't...I don't..." Elevator, he was in the elevator, surrounded by scattered groceries and spilled blood and beer. They'd gone on a supply run...

"Where is she?" Perez shook him. "Did you eat her?"

"What? Can't remember." His shoulders cramped. "Hurts..."

"What did you do? It looks like you took a fucking bath in her blood, wolf." Perez dropped him.

"I wouldn't hurt her." But his memory was gone, so maybe he had? The inside of his chest felt like it was on fire, the outside of his chest was seizing up because of the wolfsbane, and he couldn't think because of the incipient panic attack. "Perez, for god's sake, uncuff me, I can't breathe."

"Not on your life, not until you tell me what happened."

"I don't--"

A flash of memory, then. Ange, blood pouring from her throat, holding her hands out to him. Her lips moving with a silent "Puppy..." His clawed fingers, covered in red as she fell to the floor in slow motion.

Yes, I'm mean. You knew that. Comment and I may give you more next week. *evil laughter*

Comments

[wekm.livejournal.com]

This is NOT where I need to come into the new story of Ben!
Why must you torture me so...
Please send me whatever you have on the second part of his story. I just recently reread what you gave me at LTUE and am totally twitching for more, you evil literary crack dealer you.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, what I have is so not ready for public consumption except in teasers like this. It's 145,000 words, I haven't actually written the actual opening scene yet (although I know what it is), and I've still got a good 20K before the first draft is done. It's way disjointed right now.

But you can click on the snippets tag and read more of what I've posted here. Which... might be a bad idea, actually. Because I'm mean and don't generally set up these little excerpts, like, at all.

I did fix the thing with the stun gun and the sap gloves in the first one--thanks for that. :)

[wekm.livejournal.com]

I am NOT public consumption!
Just think of me as a fanboy/writing group/friend who REALLY wants MORE of the story.
Please don't make me beg....