A Story in Six Words

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SIX WORD STORIES MEME
tell a story in six words





1. Post your top level comment with a six word story prompt (or more than one!)
2. Other people respond
3. ???
4. Profit



DO NOT LEAVE YOUR TOP LEVEL COMMENT BLANK

Taken from here.

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[breakstherules]

[A few people followed them down inside. Once able to stop, Jim had his back against the wall, fighting to catch his breath.]

I'm going sleep for days after all this is over.

[He huffed out a sigh before turning to Louise assuring himself that she's safe as well as the others around him.]

[doomed_copper]

[Louise's back hit the wall after the doors were shut and fortified, and she squeezed her eyes closed and sank to the floor. Glancing up at him with clear blue, questioning irises, she pursed her lips into a thin line.]


WHY US, Jim? It's almost as if this is a narrowly targeted mission, with no care given to collateral damage in the process.

[She placed her head in her palms and sighed before meeting his gaze with a fierce one of her own.]

Wiles had networks in Gotham, didn't he.

[breakstherules]

[Jim's mouth flattens to a line and his blue gaze is hardened for a moment after Louise's comment. Her eyes felt as if they were piercing through his core to the point he could barely keep it held.]

He does, with a member Carmine Falcone's crime family. A member of the family was rising in power before her demise. There's a chance he was working orders from her and is taking revenge.

[Gordon's being targeted because he didn't kill Oswald Cobblepot when he should have, a decision he's being reminded had been a mistake given all the grief he's provided since.]

[doomed_copper]

[She stood up, pushing herself away from the wall, a grimace marring her delicate features as her shoulder made her wince slightly.]

The Falcones--they know your face, then, do they?

[Casing the cellar of the small tower block, she was looking for a lift that might take them up and inside the building, unseen. Taking her phone out of her blazer, she texted Lestrade back at HQ:

Check Chatham House, Charing Cross. See if vacancies. How soon can we rent one? Need to lay low for the time being. Keep this quiet. --L.]

[breakstherules]

continued here:

http://breakstherules.dreamwidth.org/592.html