Hey, nice one, Darcy!
Okay, here's my first themed drabble. You can't spell 'tragedy' without the T in TOGOM.<g> Or maybe I'm just amusing myself because it's 2:30am. Man, it's HARD to cram something into 100 words!
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She attracted too much attention and opened Pandora’s Box.
In a horrible, split second, her life collapsed.
Because her job was more than a pencil and some copy. It was even bigger than the criminals she put away and the daily risks she took.
Her job was to keep her partner alive. She would never have admitted it before, but she needed his cautious step to balance her uneven stride. He wasn’t supposed to be as forthright as she was. He wasn’t supposed to protect her tonight.
She may not have pulled the trigger, but she sentenced him to death.
