Title: "The Wait of the Heartsick"
Author: Pirate Turner
Rating: G
Summary: The wait is so long.
Warnings: Femme Slash, Drabble
Challenge: For a fill on a FemSlash100 LJ comm prompt table
Word Count: 150
Disclaimer: Rachel "Phoenix" Summers, Katheryne "Kitty" "Shadowcat" Pryde, Lockheed, all other characters mentioned within; the X-Men; and the X-Women are ﾩ & TM Marvel comics and Disney, not the author. Everything else is ﾩ & TM the author. The author makes absolutely no profit off of this work of fan fiction, and no copyright infringement is intended.
She sat on the hillside, tears misting in her brown eyes. Her dragon flew in circles high above her head, welcoming the dawn, but though her best friend was only a little ways away, Kitty still felt utterly alone for her other best friend had been missing for far too long now.
She sighed deeply, her chin sinking onto her knees. She hugged her legs close to her body and whispered her love's name as the sun rose above the churning sea. "Rachel."
Her soul mate had come and gone from her life now more times than Kitty cared to count. She knew she'd come again, but the waiting grew harder with each separation. Neither time nor death could keep them apart, but she was so weary of this game they played. "Please hurry home," she whispered, dropping her sad face onto her knees, and miserably cried away the morning.
The End