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Post by wordy on Apr 20, 2013 15:46:52 GMT 10
Title: Morning After Rating: PG13 Word Count: 120 Pairing: Crane/Lark/Rosethorn Round/Fight: 1B Summary: She wakes up with regrets. Warnings: Infidelity. Or, after Lark.
Rosethorn wakes up in an unfamiliar bed. It doesn’t mean that last night was a mistake, but the man breathing quietly beside her most assuredly does.
Once, she had delighted in the almosts and could-have-beens, the sweetness of nostalgia. The two of them are changed. The body that shifts against her in sleep is the same body that she touched last night, that she had known, only in passing, for years. They were never right together before, but this wrongness is more complete.
She closes her eyes again, feigns sleep, hoping that the tears will not come. The body—the person—next to her is not the one that should be, and there is no one to blame but herself.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2013 15:55:42 GMT 10
Oh. D:
Rosethorn's emotions are so wonderfully clear and compelling, especially for a ficlet so short.
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Elsceetaria
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Post by Elsceetaria on Apr 21, 2013 6:34:43 GMT 10
Oh, wow. It's nice to see fics about the emotion and how people change with time. This is amazing especially for as short as it is.
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Post by Muse on Jun 8, 2013 14:25:11 GMT 10
You're so good at portraying this snapshot so sharply, so clearly, and it's heartbreaking.
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