Title: Storyboard
Author: Rachel2008
Disclaimers: They aren't mine, no copyright infringement is intended, blah blah blah.
Spoilers: None, really. The format isn't original, but I wanted to give it a try. Really short.
Summary: Owen's life, frame by frame.
Rating: T, because I like T.
Feedback: Like it, don't like it, just let me know.
Archive: No.
Writer alert: I've decided to give my generous beta a break, so all mistakes are mine. Tell me, and I'll fix them.
He was three and his father was teaching him how to jump into their pool. He told him to not be afraid, he wouldn't sink. He trusted his daddy.
He was eleven and he was helping his mother weed out her rose beds. She cursed the small plants, her red hair like fire under the sun.
He was sixteen, he was her first, she was his first. She died a few years later in a car accident.
He was seventeen and the joint passed from hand to hand. He took another deep drag, completely stoned. The grass had never looked so green.
He was twenty-one and her moans on his neck were the sweetest sound ever. College was a blast.
He was twenty-five and he wanted to pick up a pipe and break the knees of that son of a bitch. What that bastard had done to his own child… Peds was a nightmare.
He was twenty-seven and if enrolling in the Army was the path to get that fellowship in Trauma he wanted so much, he had no problems with all that brothers in arms crap.
He was thirty and he felt relieved when he signed the divorce papers.
He was thirty-one and he was laughing with his brothers in arms.
He was thirty-two and he hated Baghdad.
He was thirty-four and that day had been a good day. No amputated limbs, no chests cracked open. That wasn't going to last. War was horror.
He was thirty-five and she had the prettiest smile he had ever seen. He had been in love many times before, but he had never experienced love at first sight. He kissed her senseless, but she didn't know him.
He was thirty-seven and she fit perfectly in his arms. He had never felt so much love, neither had he seen such a beautiful creature. Her name was Mia Yang-Hunt and she was his daughter.
Finis
