[Fic] Pet Shop of Horrors // Resuming

[spindizzy]

I feel like I should stress that I am TOTALLY FINE with people just dropping "Fandom, Word" prompts in my Prompts post. I was brought up on psohdrabble, I respond to that! Admittedly, it feels like flexing a muscle that I haven't used in a while, but that's how this project is supposed to work.

This drabble makes me want to write the Sleeping Beauty riff, with the shop covered in dust and nothing stirring and nothing welcoming to be found here. Someone remind me tomorrow when I can awake.

Pet Shop of Horrors // Resuming
G | 100 words | Count D | Set post-series, no real spoilers |

Everything in the shop moved in a very measured fashion, now. The animals had their parties and their dramas, but kept them to the back rooms and hushed when they were told. The shop opened and closed at its prescribed hours, with no urgent visitors banging on the doors demanding birds or tigers or anything else.

The Count moved through the shop with his smile painted on, his work ceaseless and demanding, his contracts resolved swiftly and mercilessly. Everything back to how it should be. Everything under control.

For the first time, the Count realised how long eternity could be.