Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2011 8:53:55 GMT 10
Title: It Will Hurt
Rating: G
Word Count: 333
Pairing: Crane/Rosethorn
Round/Fight: 1/F
Summary: "--and--yes--Crane! You'll be leaving him behind." -- Briar, Circle of Magic #4, Chapter 13
Briar's every word drops like a stone, casting painful ripples of the smooth pond of her death.
She hadn't been expecting that, but she should have: the children have surprised her at every turn. Of course Briar would find some way to bring her old wounds into death, in his misguided attempt to bring her back. Of course they would strike her hard, when she should be beyond regrets.
There are some things magic cannot fix. The past is one of them, because what happens, happens, no matter what someone else says. From the past stems old regrets. You can't change those either, but if you're lucky, you can accept them, maybe forget them. Rosethorn thought she had.
But the succession of names proves her wrong: Rosethorn wants to be at peace, but she can't when every name brings out a flinch: the girls, Little Bear, Niko, Frostpine, Lark.
And Crane.
His name hurts. That's unexpected.
Yes, Crane too, Rosethorn finally admits to herself, now that only Briar is watching, and nothing is lost and everything gained by admitting the truth. Both Crane and Isas, because you don't choose your regrets, no matter how many child-friendly synonyms for idiot you call yourself. She'll miss the others, because she likes them, because she loves Lark and Briar. She'll miss Crane -- has missed him for years -- not because she likes him, but because despite herself, even now, there's respect there, and she does care for him.
(It makes her smile wryly: even in death, he's a burr between her toes. It surprises her, a little, that for all the unchangeable regrets she holds about Isas, this isn't one of them.)
Dead, she shouldn't have to think about the unchangeable.
But Briar doesn't understand when she tells him, "I can't go back. It will hurt." He makes her think about it anyway, when he threatens her with holding the greatest regret of her existence - his death - and brings her back to life.
QC by: journeycat
Rating: G
Word Count: 333
Pairing: Crane/Rosethorn
Round/Fight: 1/F
Summary: "--and--yes--Crane! You'll be leaving him behind." -- Briar, Circle of Magic #4, Chapter 13
Briar's every word drops like a stone, casting painful ripples of the smooth pond of her death.
She hadn't been expecting that, but she should have: the children have surprised her at every turn. Of course Briar would find some way to bring her old wounds into death, in his misguided attempt to bring her back. Of course they would strike her hard, when she should be beyond regrets.
There are some things magic cannot fix. The past is one of them, because what happens, happens, no matter what someone else says. From the past stems old regrets. You can't change those either, but if you're lucky, you can accept them, maybe forget them. Rosethorn thought she had.
But the succession of names proves her wrong: Rosethorn wants to be at peace, but she can't when every name brings out a flinch: the girls, Little Bear, Niko, Frostpine, Lark.
And Crane.
His name hurts. That's unexpected.
Yes, Crane too, Rosethorn finally admits to herself, now that only Briar is watching, and nothing is lost and everything gained by admitting the truth. Both Crane and Isas, because you don't choose your regrets, no matter how many child-friendly synonyms for idiot you call yourself. She'll miss the others, because she likes them, because she loves Lark and Briar. She'll miss Crane -- has missed him for years -- not because she likes him, but because despite herself, even now, there's respect there, and she does care for him.
(It makes her smile wryly: even in death, he's a burr between her toes. It surprises her, a little, that for all the unchangeable regrets she holds about Isas, this isn't one of them.)
Dead, she shouldn't have to think about the unchangeable.
But Briar doesn't understand when she tells him, "I can't go back. It will hurt." He makes her think about it anyway, when he threatens her with holding the greatest regret of her existence - his death - and brings her back to life.
QC by: journeycat
Maybe once we'd have seen it during Smackdown!