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Post by wordy on Mar 7, 2010 9:03:40 GMT 10
Title: Wish You Were Here Rating: PG Word Count: 183 Round: 2A Competitor: Faleron Summary: Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
I wish you weren't going, he said, whispering it against her hair. Kel just smiled sadly, and moved closer. It was moments like this that she remembered, later, when she was far from home and caught up on a high of duty and need, working for others but never herself.
They never wrote to each other. Maybe it was because that would only make separation harder: having to read between the cramped, handwritten lines of I miss you and everything's fine. So instead of crying over a crumpled piece of paper that smelled like his skin and woodchips, Kel would find herself - after a seemingly endless day of work - walking the steps to her cold room, only to sit down on her stupid, too-small bed, feeling oddly hollow inside.
So Kel treasured moments like this, when they were alone, just the two of them, with nothing between them but the subtle throbbing of their hearts. And when he traced a finger across her cheek, and said I wish you weren't going, Kel could only smile sadly. Because she felt the same.
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Post by Cass on Mar 7, 2010 11:45:15 GMT 10
Aw... bittersweet...
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Post by journeycat on Mar 7, 2010 13:12:07 GMT 10
Poignant, and sad.
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