Life drabble - Clean
Title: Clean
Fandom: Life
Character: Dani Reese
Word Count: 141
Rating: PG-13
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100_womenfor prompt #20 - Clean, suggested by ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Fandom: Life
Character: Dani Reese
Word Count: 141
Rating: PG-13
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100_womenfor prompt #20 - Clean, suggested by dvshipperClean and sober. That was the party line. They wanted her clean and sober.
It was a strange word, Dani thought. Clean.
As if getting off the drugs was going to make everything pure again. The drugs were clean. They took away the filth of the world, blanked her mind. While she was under their spell, she could escape visions of the dead boy in the dumpster behind the Vons, wilted lettuce clinging to his face. She could blot out the woman sitting in the lobby, crying into her handkerchief, bruises visible on her shoulders. They helped her to erase the sound of her partner’s voice, which echoed in her mind, again and again.
“Reese, I don’t like you like this.”
The drugs protected her, kept her in the moment.
The moment
The moment
And in the moment, she was clean.
It was a strange word, Dani thought. Clean.
As if getting off the drugs was going to make everything pure again. The drugs were clean. They took away the filth of the world, blanked her mind. While she was under their spell, she could escape visions of the dead boy in the dumpster behind the Vons, wilted lettuce clinging to his face. She could blot out the woman sitting in the lobby, crying into her handkerchief, bruises visible on her shoulders. They helped her to erase the sound of her partner’s voice, which echoed in her mind, again and again.
“Reese, I don’t like you like this.”
The drugs protected her, kept her in the moment.
The moment
The moment
And in the moment, she was clean.