I am opening another drabble tree. As always, anyone who reads this is welcome to contribute, and I will respond to every drabble posted with one of my own.

( As always, the rules: )

(Feel free to use the newly updated The Almost Totally Random Writing Exercise Generator, and just ignore the first parameter, or assume it to be "drabble (100 words)")

To get you started, here is the drabble using the generator, as chosen by vegawriters.

Title: Cookies and Milk
Fandom: Bones
Pairing: Temperence Brennan, (Seeley Booth, Parker)
Rating: PG (200 Words, a true double drabble 100+100)
Prompt: drabble (100 words) * female character * hot cookies and cold milk, varietypack100 : 059. Food

She didn't know what to say to him when he looked up at her with those wide, bright eyes, as if she could make everything all right. Temperance knew better than anyone that things didn't always turn out right in the end, and things sometimes happened to the people that you loved, no matter how hard you wished it wasn't so. Still, she realized that you couldn't explain things like that to a four year old, even when you couldn't bring yourself to tell an awkward lie. She didn't know for sure that Booth was going to be all right.



When Tempe was little, her mother had a simple answer for bad days, scraped knees, and bullies. Cookies, hot from the oven, and a glass of milk, always made things look better. She wasn't Parker's mother, and Booth's injury was a lot worse than a scraped knee, but she wanted to make him this little boy, who clung to her hand like a lifeline, feel better. She didn't bake, but there was a vending machine down the hall. Two dollars and a quarter later, she held Parker's hand and shared his cookies and milk. Maybe, it would be all right.


The first word of the next drabble would be right.

100quills : 051. Understand HP/DM, (HP/RW friendship)