Fiction Drabbles: 100-Word Challenge Community

Title: To Run
Challenge/Prompt: #16 Rain
Original Fiction
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: This all came from my own head. I don't know who any of the characters are yet.

Too slick to run.

She tells herself that a couple of times, each time looking over her shoulder. The three following her, all in identical tan dusters, continue getting closer despite the downpour.

Splash, splash. A small car cuts her off for a moment before she takes off down the alleyway, in the first direction that comes to her mind. It's all she can do not to stumble, not to fall down. If she falls, she tells herself, they'll get her.

There are three of them to one of her, but the weather at least is on her side.

Title: Paths.
Challenge/Prompt: Fall
Original Fiction
Characters: girl, handlers
Rating: PG
Warnings: None really.  I guess the handlers thing might be mildly disturbing.
Summary: They won't let her fall.

She meanders slowly along the garden path, stumbling over the occasional weeds that are growing in the cracks of the cobblestones.  The weeds are always there, regardless of the constant attention of the complex gardeners.

She is lost in her own thoughts, now, and she only notices that her handlers have been following her when she stumbles once more, and suddenly they're there, catching her on either side.

Then they step back again, but they're still ready to catch her if she falls.  Two paces behind.  Muted voices and padded footsteps are quickly becoming the soundtrack of her life.