Kris11
Squire
Shipping in Circles
I am so confused when did I change my name
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Post by Kris11 on Mar 12, 2011 16:39:15 GMT 10
Title: The Understanding One Rating: PG Word Count: 157 Pairing: Team Discipline Round/Fight: 1/B Summary: Lark reflects on who she is supposed to be. Set before Melting Stones.
She was supposed to be the understanding one. Lark knew that. She was the sympathetic one, the nurturing one, the selfless one.
She had smiled and encouraged each of her friends to take her children away. She had taken care of the cottage and garden alone. She had kissed her lover goodbye and waited patiently for her to return home.
She had waited for four years until she could hold her lover again. And now, at the first mention of trees dying on Starns, Rosethorn was planning to leave again.
Lark was supposed to be the understanding one. She was supposed to tell Rosethorn that the memories of Gyongxe would go away, that helping people was the right thing to do, that she would be waiting for her to come home.
But she couldn’t.
She had lost Rosethorn once. And the thing about being the understanding one? It was that one who always ended up alone.
QC by: journeycat
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Post by snowkab on Mar 13, 2011 4:44:34 GMT 10
Oh... It's so sad yet so beautiful. I can imagine that there would come a time that Lark just wouldn't be satisfied with sitting at home and waiting.
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luinae
Rider Trainee
crazy girl
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Post by luinae on Mar 15, 2011 5:48:56 GMT 10
Poor Lark. This piece really makes me feel her pain.
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Carbon Kiwi
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Post by Carbon Kiwi on Mar 28, 2011 7:32:55 GMT 10
Oh, my. I always imagined Lark's pain with being the selfless one. This piece expressed it so beautifully and painfully. My heart hurts to think of it.
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