Indigo Nights- Chapter 20: The Pendulum
We just need to find out what makes you tick." "tock." "what's that?" "tick-tock. time is what makes my powers tick. and that's where i get lost, right at step number one. how can i manipulate something i can't see or feel?"
Tora- A Difference in Opinion
Tora grunted and faced the row of stakes yet again, this time a little ticked off. this time, she was going to try for the stake on the opposite side of the rod.
Eternyte, Ch 1: Login
He watched it counting down, chiming with each tick of the clock and he quickly went back to securing the curtains. at 'five', the curtain rod fell down and will cursed his luck.
Insomnia
tick... tock... tick... tock... never before have i been so capable to be able to compare my bedroom clock... to a hideous metronome.
Sebastian Grows Big
On her polished wooden desk an old analogue clock kept ticking seconds away. it was completely unnecessary, of course, but marie liked the sound and it seemed to help the clients to be at ease.
Nonexistent
Until the tick tock became louder every minute. i used to think i would never settle. yet, here i was waking up every day by your side. i used to think the nights we laid there, were never going to be the hardest.
Emotional Support Human: Chapter 3
I knew this moment would come sooner or later, but like a ticking bomb, i could only wait for it to go off. that brings us to why i'm standing before the bathroom door, as the muffled sobs of ookami-san echo within.
Winter Interlude
This was a time for family, not ... companionship, and business had been slow all week, fading faster as the days ticked off the calendar.
The Life of Another - Chapter 40
The black panther glanced at her notepad, ticking off points as she spoke. "at fourteen hundred hours, his time, roger was in a deli with nick's mother.
Gathering the Pieces...
Larcus replies, keeping an eye on the inn's timepiece, watching the minutes and seconds tick by. tick. tock. tick. tock. the lobby is eerily silent. tick. tock. tick. tock. the minutes silently go by; larcus and the guards still wait. nothing.
The Last Second
The foxes ears now stood straight up as he ticked away quickly at the keyboard, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. the very structure of the universe was collapsing. he checked the program.
Blood and Fuel
_tick tick tick… went the fuel gauge…_ "i mean look at tha'! council ships overhead an' lasers and pdc fire… jus' like momma used to make. only this time the whole galaxy watchin'.