Post by PeroxidePirate on Mar 10, 2011 1:48:38 GMT 10
Title: I've Played All the Characters
Rating: PG
Wordcount:286
Pairing: Team Girl Power (Buri/Thayet)
Round: 1/B
Summary: Thayet understands.
(Italicized text is quoted from the song "Book of Love" by Dar Williams and excluded from word count.)
And I've played all the characters
The fool, the friend, the wife
“I’ve been a lot of things, but I never thought I’d be a nobleman’s wife.”
We’re having tea in a courtyard garden, just the two of us. Even Cythera, the queen’s impecably civilized blonde shadow, is elsewhere. “You could have, you know,” Thayet answers. “Much sooner, I mean.”
“I was busy.” I try not to snap, but I can’t seem to help it. It’s the first time we’ve seen each other since my wedding, which she was unable to attend — which, admittedly, is my fault, for choosing to have it in a war zone.
“Busy with what?”
“The Riders,” I begin.
“You were exactly as busy with the Riders as you wanted to be,” she counters. “You know Evin couldn’t wait for you to get out of his hair.”
“And there was Onua.”
“I thought you were better off as friends.”
“Yes, but we’re very close friends.”
She just raises an eyebrow, not remotely convinced.
“And I was foolish enough,” I growl at last, “to take a really long time to get over my first love.”
“Oh,” she gasps, and then falls silent.
“It’s all right now,” I reassure her. “I didn’t mean to say anything. That’s all past.”
“I owe you an apology.”
“You’re a good queen,” I assert. “You made the right choice. So did I, in not arguing with you.”
“For once,” she teases. “You were a terrible lady-in-waiting, though. It wasn’t right for you.”
“No.”
“I should have seen that sooner.”
I shrug.
“Anyway,” she says fondly. “I’m glad you found someone at last.”
I think of Raoul — my husband — and I smile. “I am, too.”
QC by: journeycat
Rating: PG
Wordcount:286
Pairing: Team Girl Power (Buri/Thayet)
Round: 1/B
Summary: Thayet understands.
(Italicized text is quoted from the song "Book of Love" by Dar Williams and excluded from word count.)
And I've played all the characters
The fool, the friend, the wife
“I’ve been a lot of things, but I never thought I’d be a nobleman’s wife.”
We’re having tea in a courtyard garden, just the two of us. Even Cythera, the queen’s impecably civilized blonde shadow, is elsewhere. “You could have, you know,” Thayet answers. “Much sooner, I mean.”
“I was busy.” I try not to snap, but I can’t seem to help it. It’s the first time we’ve seen each other since my wedding, which she was unable to attend — which, admittedly, is my fault, for choosing to have it in a war zone.
“Busy with what?”
“The Riders,” I begin.
“You were exactly as busy with the Riders as you wanted to be,” she counters. “You know Evin couldn’t wait for you to get out of his hair.”
“And there was Onua.”
“I thought you were better off as friends.”
“Yes, but we’re very close friends.”
She just raises an eyebrow, not remotely convinced.
“And I was foolish enough,” I growl at last, “to take a really long time to get over my first love.”
“Oh,” she gasps, and then falls silent.
“It’s all right now,” I reassure her. “I didn’t mean to say anything. That’s all past.”
“I owe you an apology.”
“You’re a good queen,” I assert. “You made the right choice. So did I, in not arguing with you.”
“For once,” she teases. “You were a terrible lady-in-waiting, though. It wasn’t right for you.”
“No.”
“I should have seen that sooner.”
I shrug.
“Anyway,” she says fondly. “I’m glad you found someone at last.”
I think of Raoul — my husband — and I smile. “I am, too.”
QC by: journeycat