Title: Introspectre
Author: Cheezey
Theme: Doomite Fic
Characters/Pairings: Haggar
Album and Song: Depeche Mode – Playing the Angel; “Introspectre”
Rating/Genre: K / Drama, Angst
Summary/Author's Notes: This is a triple-drabble featuring planet Doom’s broody old witch set to the eerie and haunting instrumental track of the same name.
The draft that swished through Haggar’s dark chamber made a lonely echo against the stone as it caused the candle beside her to flicker, but the hooded figure seated at the stone bench did not notice.
The leather tome open before her that she focused upon so intently whilst scratching the purring blue cat beside her looked just like the others in the vast collection upon her overfull bookshelves, but it was not a spell book she studied that night.
Instead it was something no one knew she even had—a photo album. Such things were archaic and outdated in their age of technology, but Haggar was a bit of a relic herself so it suited her. Besides, it saved her from having to endure prying eyes and annoying inquiries. Few were bold enough to go through her things, and those who might be so inclined would not understand the arcane tongues her texts were written in anyway.
Upon the open page before her was a grayscale image of a beautiful woman with long hair clad in a shape-hugging dress. She smiled the smile of the young and ambitious and even through the still of the mechanical image maker, one could see how her eyes sparkled with the look of one eager to please and confident she would. Though the picture gave no indication as to who was being favored with that look, the old witch knew all too well, and even after all that time it still tore at her heart.
All these years… she mused with a silent, painful wince.
All these years, and I still hate you.
Her bony fingers curled around the book’s cover in disgust.
And I still can’t let you go.
Abruptly she turned away, and the draft blew the candle beside her out.
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