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Post by journeycat on Mar 12, 2011 8:39:30 GMT 10
Title: Failure Rating: PG Word Count: 173 Pairing: Team Bend-a-lot (Jon/Zahir) Round/Fight: 1/A Summary: He'll carry with him the burden of failure for the rest of his life. Warning for character death.
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“You don’t get over it,” Paxton had told him gravely, that rainy day so many years ago. “You live with it, or you break.”
The man had long since drank himself into his grave - mourning his wife, most said sagely, while Jon thought, No, guilt for his squire - but those words stuck with him. Joren died because his heart was stone and cruel, and Paxton could not fix what was ruined for so long, though he carried the blame for all his life. But for Jonathan, it truly was his fault - it was not any failing on good, brave Zahir’s behalf, but on Jon’s, that he did not protect him.
Even when Uncle Gareth took ill and died, and his children wed far away from him, the pain from that wretched day of Scanran arrows was most prominent in his heart.
And that was why, exactly fourteen years from that day, Jonathan knelt on this grave that knew his knees well and whispered, “I’m so sorry, Zahir. I’m so sorry I failed you.”
QC by: inthefire
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domluvr
Squire
♥ Dom ♥
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Post by domluvr on Mar 12, 2011 9:09:59 GMT 10
Oh, Mandi. I love how powerful you've made the squire/knight-master relationship. So touching!
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Post by Alliecat on Mar 12, 2011 10:23:19 GMT 10
This is wonderful, yet terribly sad.
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luinae
Rider Trainee
crazy girl
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Post by luinae on Mar 12, 2011 10:23:49 GMT 10
Aww, I can just see Jon visiting his squire's grave. It's horribly sad.
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Post by journeycat on Mar 12, 2011 10:30:59 GMT 10
Thanks, guys <3
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