Post by Muse on Mar 18, 2011 2:16:24 GMT 10
Title: Realizing
Rating: G
Word Count: 268
Pairing: Kalasin/Wyldon
Round/Fight: 1/C
Summary: “It’s a little too late for you to come back and say it’s just a mistake, think I’d forgive you like that; if you thought I would wait for you, you thought wrong.”: (“If I Were a Boy”—as sung by Reba McEntire. Part 6.)
The last papers have arrived from Carthak, and the ambassador and his wife wait on one side of her father’s study as Kalasin reads them over, one last time, for herself, but she already knows what they say. Her mother and her father have gone over them with her hundreds of times over the last few years until she could recite them from memory.
She takes just another few minutes to re-read them before she signs her name at the bottom and pushes away the paper; she doesn’t want to see the last time her signature will recognize her as a Conte.
Kally leaves, then, unable to watch as first Aunt Alanna, then Uncle Gary and even Lord Wyldon step forward to witness the document. The only other people in the room are the ambassadors, and she doesn’t want their calculating stares, and her parents whose expressions are probably worse.
Jonathan watches Kally leave, fresh traces of his apologies emerging from under the mask of his formality, and Wyldon is the only one, save Thayet, who sees it. She notices his gaze, and nods slightly.
Wyldon finds Kally in the doorway to the old Royal Nursery; it’s been vacated for years, now.
“It’s really real.” There’s no surprise in her voice at his arrival, and Wyldon is surprised at how his heart throbs for her. If she were his daughter… but she isn’t, and he can’t save her from this.
“…At least, at least I’ll be here for Roald’s Ordeal,” she whispers, thinking of how awful it would be if she were across an ocean on that night.
QC: by Cassandra
Rating: G
Word Count: 268
Pairing: Kalasin/Wyldon
Round/Fight: 1/C
Summary: “It’s a little too late for you to come back and say it’s just a mistake, think I’d forgive you like that; if you thought I would wait for you, you thought wrong.”: (“If I Were a Boy”—as sung by Reba McEntire. Part 6.)
The last papers have arrived from Carthak, and the ambassador and his wife wait on one side of her father’s study as Kalasin reads them over, one last time, for herself, but she already knows what they say. Her mother and her father have gone over them with her hundreds of times over the last few years until she could recite them from memory.
She takes just another few minutes to re-read them before she signs her name at the bottom and pushes away the paper; she doesn’t want to see the last time her signature will recognize her as a Conte.
Kally leaves, then, unable to watch as first Aunt Alanna, then Uncle Gary and even Lord Wyldon step forward to witness the document. The only other people in the room are the ambassadors, and she doesn’t want their calculating stares, and her parents whose expressions are probably worse.
Jonathan watches Kally leave, fresh traces of his apologies emerging from under the mask of his formality, and Wyldon is the only one, save Thayet, who sees it. She notices his gaze, and nods slightly.
Wyldon finds Kally in the doorway to the old Royal Nursery; it’s been vacated for years, now.
“It’s really real.” There’s no surprise in her voice at his arrival, and Wyldon is surprised at how his heart throbs for her. If she were his daughter… but she isn’t, and he can’t save her from this.
“…At least, at least I’ll be here for Roald’s Ordeal,” she whispers, thinking of how awful it would be if she were across an ocean on that night.
QC: by Cassandra