[30 Days of Fic - Day 9] "A Gift for the Pretty Lady"

"Yes?" The drowsy girl with the sweet smile murmured and she pulled the door open to the limit of the security chain.

"Delivery, ma'am." The man in the sharply tailored uniform replied.

"From who?" She pushed a hand through her hair, trying to put it in some semblance of order. Normally people waking her up from a catnap wouldn't get the time of day, nor any semblance of order. But he was cute. And had something to give her. A snippet of an idiom regarding Romans and gifts danced through her mind, but she quickly set it aside.

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Today's '30 Days of Fic' prompt was 'Write a scene working from the title “Roses are Red, Violets are Dead”'

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[30 Days of Fic - Day 10] "Recon"

"Clear!" The Lieutenant barked out as they finished their scan of the room. He, and the rest of his team, relaxed the scantest amount. They would never be relaxed in that sort of a situation; it simply wasn't in their nature. Too many variables could sneak up and go pear shaped. But half the team was outside of the bombed out house.

"The hell is this place, sir?" Private Carter murmured, looking through the shelves of little plastic cases curiously. This was a younger unit, one that had been built of those born after the cataclysm; except for the Lieutenant, none of them had letters.

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Today's '30 Days of Fic' prompt was 'Write a scene focused around a musical instrument'

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