author note: written for the ongoing drabble fest at nextgenconfessions on tumblr. Note that none of these drabbles connected to one another. I just wanted a place to keep them all together.
round one
prompt: freestyle
character(s): freestyle
welcome to heartbreak, baby
(teddy/lily luna; pg)
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They are young. Lily is seventeen, eighteen years maybe and she is laughing again in his arms, telling Teddy she loves him. Of course I do, you bloody fool, and Teddy opens his mouth to reply back but he can't –the words get stuck in his throat and he can't say anything, can't seem to do anything except see the hurt slowly creep into her wide blue eyes and watch her face drop as she moves away, out of his arms reach. He wants to call her back, wants to see her laughing, just wants to feel her again but he still can't speak and suddenly she's gone and it hurts. It hurts so godamn much-
Teddy wakes up suddenly, heart racing, his sheets damp around his clammy skin. He rolls over onto his back. "I love you," he says to the ceiling, fifteen years too late and wonders if it means anything still.