Remembrance (SGA ficlet)
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karaokegirl's Come as you aren't party, being held all this week. The index of stories can be found here
Title: Remembrance
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters or Pairing: John Sheppard
Rating/warnings/spoilers: PG/none/episode tag for 'Sanctuary'
Word Count: ~
Summary: He liked her before he knew
Remembrance
I could have placed us in exile
I could have shown you how to cry
He liked her before he knew. That's the real gut-punch, because maybe if he'd known, he wouldn't have let himself- what? Spend time with her? Get to know her? Fall for her? And okay, a couple of days isn't exactly the affair of the century, but it meant something. Didn't it?
The balcony feels too big without her and he half-wishes he'd brought the blanket to sit on. Of course, that would have made things a hundred times worse, but at least he wouldn't have been freezing his butt off. He's been up here a few times since he left Proculus, just sitting and watching the city come to life in the dark, lights flickering in the inhabited towers, bright against the darkness of the abandoned rooms. Atlantis is beautiful at night time. That's why he chose this spot, to show her the city, to share it with her.
That thought makes him shake his head, choking back a bitter laugh. Sharing his city with someone who probably helped build it, and who understood it better than he could ever hope to. What an idiot. She must have thought they were all arrogant idiots, showing off their shiny toys, the things her people left behind. But then there had been that moment of connection, the memory of it so warm that it drives away the chill of the wind. It will pass, he knows, returning him to the bitterness of what could never have been, but for now, he closes his eyes and looks into the remembered light.
karaokegirl's Come as you aren't party, being held all this week. The index of stories can be found hereTitle: Remembrance
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters or Pairing: John Sheppard
Rating/warnings/spoilers: PG/none/episode tag for 'Sanctuary'
Word Count: ~
Summary: He liked her before he knew
Remembrance
I could have placed us in exile
I could have shown you how to cry
He liked her before he knew. That's the real gut-punch, because maybe if he'd known, he wouldn't have let himself- what? Spend time with her? Get to know her? Fall for her? And okay, a couple of days isn't exactly the affair of the century, but it meant something. Didn't it?
The balcony feels too big without her and he half-wishes he'd brought the blanket to sit on. Of course, that would have made things a hundred times worse, but at least he wouldn't have been freezing his butt off. He's been up here a few times since he left Proculus, just sitting and watching the city come to life in the dark, lights flickering in the inhabited towers, bright against the darkness of the abandoned rooms. Atlantis is beautiful at night time. That's why he chose this spot, to show her the city, to share it with her.
That thought makes him shake his head, choking back a bitter laugh. Sharing his city with someone who probably helped build it, and who understood it better than he could ever hope to. What an idiot. She must have thought they were all arrogant idiots, showing off their shiny toys, the things her people left behind. But then there had been that moment of connection, the memory of it so warm that it drives away the chill of the wind. It will pass, he knows, returning him to the bitterness of what could never have been, but for now, he closes his eyes and looks into the remembered light.
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Date: 2007-11-07 05:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-11-09 07:58 am (UTC)Thanks!