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donutsweeper ([personal profile] donutsweeper) wrote2008-09-07 07:37 pm
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Living the Lie

Title: Living the Lie
Pairing/Warning/Rating: NCIS fandom, no pairings, rated G
Word Count: 100
Summary: It's not easy to maintain a cover.
Author's Note: Written for the [livejournal.com profile] ncisdrabble100 challenge: secrets

The truth can be a hard thing to tell.  Impossible even, especially when trying to maintain a cover.  It’s easier, so much easier, to say nothing at all.  But, if you’re good, and I do mean good,  you can deflect things in such a way that no one even notices your words were nothing more than cotton candy, light and fluffy, and completely void of anything worthwhile.  Doing that is difficult in its own way, trying to keep stories straight and various lies from dueling when they butted up against one another.  But necessary.  Especially when lives depend on it.

[identity profile] chatona.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
It isn't! There's just SO MUCH of it all of the sudden.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
take a deep breath! It's okay! It'll be fun and exciting!

[identity profile] chatona.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It is! It's awesome! BUT THERE'S SO MUCH OF IT!

*breathes*

[identity profile] chatona.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs back* so how are things for you?

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
busy and nuts. school's started for my kids and work is in the busy season and it's only 2 months to my daughter's bat mitzvah. *takes deep breath myself*

[identity profile] chatona.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
*breathes with you* ... we should eat lots of donuts to calm us down.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
YES! I like that idea. A LOT!

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-09-08 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
donutcity here we come!