Writing Prompt #113: Romancing the Spy

Writing Prompt #113

It was just a job. Three years watching her through that machine. And maybe a little part of me fell in love with her, because I wished she knew who I was. Until she did.

3 Steps to Your Story

Take no more than 5 minutes to consider the prompt. Who is the speaker? Why is s/he watching her? How did she figure out the speaker was watching her? What happens next?
Write for 15 minutes. Say yes to the first image or idea that pops into your head, and write it down. Don’t think about where the story will end up. Just write.
When you feel ready, share your story in the comments.

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Sam says

22 December 2019 at 6:34 pm

This is what I came up with. I wrote it in a power of the pen style and giving myself 40 minutes to write it and I think that it turned out decent. I hope you enjoy it. Please give your feedback, I really need help with getting better with my writing.

Sitting in a room for years watching a handsome man go about his daily life without a care in the world is so mesmerizing that you just might fall for them. But you had to take an oath that you would just sit there and watch, and watch, and watch. It would get boring sometimes, but then you have the interesting times. Like when someone tried to break into his home and he was absolutely terrified for his life. Even though I was the person who sent the robber, testing his reaction and how it affected his life. Years and years would just go by without a second thought, subject 556 had become apart of my life and I didn’t want them to go away. They had been getting sick for a few weeks now, again my doing for the experiment but I didn’t want to, I was made to by my head supervisor. Who was now getting on my back about treating 556 like a real person.

To me 556 was a real person, in fact I didn’t like calling him a number so I started calling him Owen. Owen was a very tall, blonde, chiseled chin, handsome man. He was everything I was looking for, but my job put us apart he didn’t know about me and what I was doing. “Hey i need you to add in a plague to see if 556’s immune system is still online.” Jake walks by, instructing me to do something horrible to Owen and I don’t want to. “But what if it kills him?” I ask, counteracting what my supervisor had just told me to do. “Do as I say if you still want a job.” he says with a snotty attitude, and looking over my shoulder making sure that I put the plague into his mini world. I do as I’m told very carefully, hoping that Owen is okay and going to survive. A warning sign started beeping repeatedly on the screen but I kept going and……. “Uh..” I sighed as he was okay and survived.

Over the next few days I had grown to really love Owen, and I wanted him to meet me. So I ended up ‘accidentally’ stopping his simulation, and making it seem like he just woke up on his own. Everyone in the office seemed to believe it, but Jake had been on my back a lot more over the last two hours. Me and own had been getting along and he seemed into me, it was reliving. I had been watching him for years, his not knowing and then meeting in real life and hitting it off right away. “So want to go out on a date sometime?” I ask, shifting my stance so let off some weight from one foot. “I’d love too!” he says a bit loudly, alerting others in the room around us. “Okay, I’ll see you at 7:00.” I say walking off to the lunch room, starting to count the minutes until i would see him again.
-sam

Comments

Ashteli says

29 August 2015 at 11:34 pm

Awesome writing prompt

Ronwyn says

21 January 2018 at 11:03 pm

Read a book that could have come from this prompt almost word for word at the start

- M Wallace says
  
  22 January 2018 at 3:35 pm
  
  Fun, Ronwyn! Which book was it?
  
Misty Mont says

27 March 2018 at 2:33 am

I’m in

Sam says

22 December 2019 at 6:34 pm

This is what I came up with. I wrote it in a power of the pen style and giving myself 40 minutes to write it and I think that it turned out decent. I hope you enjoy it. Please give your feedback, I really need help with getting better with my writing.

Sitting in a room for years watching a handsome man go about his daily life without a care in the world is so mesmerizing that you just might fall for them. But you had to take an oath that you would just sit there and watch, and watch, and watch. It would get boring sometimes, but then you have the interesting times. Like when someone tried to break into his home and he was absolutely terrified for his life. Even though I was the person who sent the robber, testing his reaction and how it affected his life. Years and years would just go by without a second thought, subject 556 had become apart of my life and I didn’t want them to go away. They had been getting sick for a few weeks now, again my doing for the experiment but I didn’t want to, I was made to by my head supervisor. Who was now getting on my back about treating 556 like a real person.

To me 556 was a real person, in fact I didn’t like calling him a number so I started calling him Owen. Owen was a very tall, blonde, chiseled chin, handsome man. He was everything I was looking for, but my job put us apart he didn’t know about me and what I was doing. “Hey i need you to add in a plague to see if 556’s immune system is still online.” Jake walks by, instructing me to do something horrible to Owen and I don’t want to. “But what if it kills him?” I ask, counteracting what my supervisor had just told me to do. “Do as I say if you still want a job.” he says with a snotty attitude, and looking over my shoulder making sure that I put the plague into his mini world. I do as I’m told very carefully, hoping that Owen is okay and going to survive. A warning sign started beeping repeatedly on the screen but I kept going and……. “Uh..” I sighed as he was okay and survived.

Over the next few days I had grown to really love Owen, and I wanted him to meet me. So I ended up ‘accidentally’ stopping his simulation, and making it seem like he just woke up on his own. Everyone in the office seemed to believe it, but Jake had been on my back a lot more over the last two hours. Me and own had been getting along and he seemed into me, it was reliving. I had been watching him for years, his not knowing and then meeting in real life and hitting it off right away. “So want to go out on a date sometime?” I ask, shifting my stance so let off some weight from one foot. “I’d love too!” he says a bit loudly, alerting others in the room around us. “Okay, I’ll see you at 7:00.” I say walking off to the lunch room, starting to count the minutes until i would see him again.
-sam

- M Wallace says
  
  20 March 2020 at 3:22 pm
  
  This is wonderful!