Finally, I have begun my own drabble archive! Thanks and general love to both Blue Yeti and The White Lily, for starting off the drabble archives thing, for wibbling with me over which ones I should post and for all-round writing encouragement. Also to the rest of the Crimmers, because you are awesome.

I'm planning to post about one of these per week. And I have around forty of them already written, so I should be able to stick to that for at least a little while.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything in this.


Title: Missing
Rating: G
Words: 100
Prompt: Puzzle (af100)
Synopsis: You should never give Artemis a challenge. Even accidentally.

Angeline interrupted. "Don't bother with that, darling. It's missing some pieces."

"Missing?" Artemis froze. "But I want to do it. I haven't before."

Angeline stroked his head. "As long as you know you can't finish." She departed.

Artemis didn't resume the jigsaw for a while.

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Later Angeline saw it – as finished as possible – off to one side. Artemis was now cutting up cardboard. She smiled. Such imagination...

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Finally Angeline saw he'd abandoned the table. Only the jigsaw remained.

Then she noticed: no holes. There were strangely sunken pieces – perfect fits, matching the picture from the lid.

The jigsaw was complete.