Disclaimer: Not mine.
A/N: Written after the season premiere or whatever they played on January 6th. Written because it needed to be. Note: I did not count seconds, so don't review just to tell me I'm wrong.
Seven Seconds
It took seven seconds for her life to crash and her heart to break. Seven seconds to interpret every possible meaning of the phrase "nothing to search for" and for her mind to start producing visions of life without him. Seven seconds for her to curse every god she'd ever heard of in every language she'd ever known (silently, of course, because she had to set a good example). Seven seconds to mentally drop to her knees and scream her pain out at the cold, unforgiving universe.
And then the words that slid like a cool balm across her wounded heart. "Sheppard's IDC".
It took seven seconds to break Elizabeth Weir, and one to make her whole again.