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Post by jazzyjess on Feb 19, 2010 9:01:47 GMT 10
Title: Second-Best (ii) Rating: G Length: 250 Competitor: Owen Round/Fight: 1/D Summary: Owen wishes Margarry would have understood. Part two of two.
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It is Owen’s pride that keeps him from reaching out to his wife when she says to him, “You haven’t really been mine since the day I met you.”
He loves Kel – he does, truly, he loves her – but the love he reserves for his best friend is not the same love he has for his wife. To him, Kel will always be the person who stood up for him when he was being bullied, who helped him with his quarterstaff and willingly helped his family when he asked. She is the one who protected her friends from a bandit raid when they all could have died, and she is the woman who led a party into enemy country just to rescue a band of commoners that she felt were her responsibility.
There are a hundred things he admires in Keladry of Mindelan, and a hundred things he respects. She has always taken care of him, and he trusts her to always be there for him to return to. In truth, she is everything he remembers of his mother, before she was killed by bandits near Jesslaw.
But he loves her like his mother, and this is why Margarry’s accusation hurts the way it does. He has shared everything with his wife and though she understands everything else, he wishes she would understand this.
So he watches her go and though he wants to beg her not to leave him, he doesn’t, because there is simply nothing left to say.
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Post by Rosie on Feb 19, 2010 9:14:36 GMT 10
Oh Accompanies the other half of the tale beautifully!
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Post by jazzyjess on Feb 19, 2010 9:35:03 GMT 10
Thank you
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Post by max on Feb 19, 2010 10:04:39 GMT 10
Oh so sad Albeit beautiful.
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Post by ubiquitous on Feb 19, 2010 11:06:27 GMT 10
So very sad. Wonderfully written though.
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Post by jazzyjess on Feb 19, 2010 11:08:13 GMT 10
Thank you guys so much
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Post by PeroxidePirate on Feb 19, 2010 11:40:38 GMT 10
This is excellent. But it really makes me NOT want to ship Kel/Owen... now I just want Owen and Margarry to get back together! (Don't worry, though, I won't let that stop me from writing some fic for this round...)
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Post by jazzyjess on Feb 19, 2010 12:18:01 GMT 10
I know! I actually really like Owen/Margarry as a pairing. But I'm glad you won't let it discourage you this round!
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Post by Lisa on Feb 20, 2010 8:35:41 GMT 10
Oh, this hurts even more than the last one! Of course, I mean it in a good way.
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Post by jazzyjess on Feb 20, 2010 16:53:41 GMT 10
Thank you
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