Archiving: Dolphin Haven, otherwise ask first. I'm not all that likely to turn you down
Disclaimer: I know, they're not mine. You don't have to look so shocked...
Feedback: Flame away...or something better.
Authors notes: Boredom made me do this...took me about ten minutes so it's hardly a masterpiece.
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He sat at the dinner-table in the mansion, alone. He had some companions he could
hang out with whenever he feels he wants to. But he doesn't want to. Not anymore and he hasn't
for quite some time. Not since she left and this time there's no chance in hell she's coming
back.
He knows that. He also knows it's all his fault. He had it all and let it slip through his
fingers.
So he sits there, wallowing in his own selfpity and misery and refusing to let go. "Alone
in a mansion usually overfull with people on a Friday night. How pathetic have you
beome?" he asks himself.
He never used to like the song he's singing softly to himself, awfully off-key but he
doesn't care. No one around to hear him after all. No, he never liked the song. He
detested it and used to think it was way too sappy. But now? Now he finds there's a lot
more truth to it than he had realized. Or is it just his mind that thinks so, insisting
on hurting himself?
"And solitaire is the only game in town
And every road that takes him, takes him down
While life goes on around him everywhere
He's playing solitaire"
It doesn't matter does it? If it's true or just his twisted mind? The hurting is
still there no matter what. He keeps on singing softly and playing his game
of solitaire but without being able to concentrate on it. He keeps thinking back
on happier days, days when he still was with Marie.
If he's honest with himself he can't blame her for running away even if he wants to.
No, there's no one to blame but himself. He took her too much for granted after
a while and didn't take her feelings into consideration. The last is not true
he corrects himself. He did, but not enough.
And something else to consider - they both hadn't been ready for a lasting relationship.
It doesn't make it hurt any less but just the way it was. He doesn't know if she still
had feelings for Logan by then, it just wasn't anything that they discussed in any way.
Don't drag old loves into your current relationship, even if it was unrequited love.
Simple as that. As for him, he had kept things hidden from her. Things he was ashamed
to admit to even himself.
Eventually those things and more managed to break them up. She had left him and even
after all this time it hurt. First to Remy, which he should have seen coming. The both
of them were rather alike in many ways. Too alike perhaps because that relationship didn't
last either. He wasn't sure of why or who broke it up but they sure fought a lot. Over
both trivial things and accusations of adultery.
Then Logan returned. He sighed. If Marie once had gotten over her initial attraction and
feelings towards him they were soon laid to rest. It just took three weeks actually before
Logan had managed to seduce her. Or was it the other way around? Either way, they were now
sharing a room and by the look of things it wasn't going to change anytime soon even if
Scott wanted it to.
He smiled at that. That was the only upside to all of this, that it made Scott uncomfortable
and agitated. Not much could do that to Scott so it was amusing in its own way.
But one upside wasn't enough. Not by a long-shot.
To make a long story even longer, Bobby Drake was miserable and no longer the resident
prankster. He noticed that the king of hearts was still concealed amongst the cards.
A sign to be sure. That the little hope that was left now had went up in smoke.
He begins to deal out the cards again, to another losing game.
The game is over.
Disclaimer: I know, they're not mine. You don't have to look so shocked...
Feedback: Flame away...or something better.
Authors notes: Boredom made me do this...took me about ten minutes so it's hardly a masterpiece.
-------------------
He sat at the dinner-table in the mansion, alone. He had some companions he could
hang out with whenever he feels he wants to. But he doesn't want to. Not anymore and he hasn't
for quite some time. Not since she left and this time there's no chance in hell she's coming
back.
He knows that. He also knows it's all his fault. He had it all and let it slip through his
fingers.
So he sits there, wallowing in his own selfpity and misery and refusing to let go. "Alone
in a mansion usually overfull with people on a Friday night. How pathetic have you
beome?" he asks himself.
He never used to like the song he's singing softly to himself, awfully off-key but he
doesn't care. No one around to hear him after all. No, he never liked the song. He
detested it and used to think it was way too sappy. But now? Now he finds there's a lot
more truth to it than he had realized. Or is it just his mind that thinks so, insisting
on hurting himself?
"And solitaire is the only game in town
And every road that takes him, takes him down
While life goes on around him everywhere
He's playing solitaire"
It doesn't matter does it? If it's true or just his twisted mind? The hurting is
still there no matter what. He keeps on singing softly and playing his game
of solitaire but without being able to concentrate on it. He keeps thinking back
on happier days, days when he still was with Marie.
If he's honest with himself he can't blame her for running away even if he wants to.
No, there's no one to blame but himself. He took her too much for granted after
a while and didn't take her feelings into consideration. The last is not true
he corrects himself. He did, but not enough.
And something else to consider - they both hadn't been ready for a lasting relationship.
It doesn't make it hurt any less but just the way it was. He doesn't know if she still
had feelings for Logan by then, it just wasn't anything that they discussed in any way.
Don't drag old loves into your current relationship, even if it was unrequited love.
Simple as that. As for him, he had kept things hidden from her. Things he was ashamed
to admit to even himself.
Eventually those things and more managed to break them up. She had left him and even
after all this time it hurt. First to Remy, which he should have seen coming. The both
of them were rather alike in many ways. Too alike perhaps because that relationship didn't
last either. He wasn't sure of why or who broke it up but they sure fought a lot. Over
both trivial things and accusations of adultery.
Then Logan returned. He sighed. If Marie once had gotten over her initial attraction and
feelings towards him they were soon laid to rest. It just took three weeks actually before
Logan had managed to seduce her. Or was it the other way around? Either way, they were now
sharing a room and by the look of things it wasn't going to change anytime soon even if
Scott wanted it to.
He smiled at that. That was the only upside to all of this, that it made Scott uncomfortable
and agitated. Not much could do that to Scott so it was amusing in its own way.
But one upside wasn't enough. Not by a long-shot.
To make a long story even longer, Bobby Drake was miserable and no longer the resident
prankster. He noticed that the king of hearts was still concealed amongst the cards.
A sign to be sure. That the little hope that was left now had went up in smoke.
He begins to deal out the cards again, to another losing game.
The game is over.