Winter's Chill

A Drabble Series by .writer

A/N: These are posted a day early on my website. If you want to read them as soon as possible, you need to go by there. The link is in my profile.

All of these take place in the same universe as my one-shots Deliberate and Outside in the Cold. Also, they are all exactly one hundred words. It was a challenge to get them just right, but it was worth it.

One: Running Away

She entered his room just as he ended the call, questions on her face. “The dean of Fortwright Academy,” Reid said.

She frowned, the slightest wrinkling of her brow. “The Boston school?”

“Yes.” He wouldn't volunteer information.

“Why?”

“I'm leaving.” His tone was calm, but his hands were shaking.

She tried to argue, but he had decided. He couldn't stay here, not everything around him made him reach for the pills the doctor had given him. Have to get out, away from the memories, away from the people.

“You can't stop me, Mom,” he said eventually.

It was the truth.