Alone Together
A/N: Ok, so I posted this a while ago as part of the 30 Days 30 Songs challenge, but I got HORRIBLE flames because it's a song fic. I decided to remove it until I felt I could re-post it as a single fic inspired by a song and here it is.
This takes them back to high school, my first attempt at writing a Taggart high school fic. Inspired by Keane's Somewhere Only We Know.
Disclaimer: Don't own them, just borrowing them to play with. Don't own the song. Beta read by I think ur Superman.
Robbie liked being alone and so did Jackie, but no one knew where they went. And no one was brave enough to ask them.
Every day after school, they would walk across a stretch of empty land together. They had walked it so often, that they knew the pathway like the back of their hand.
They would sit by the river and Jackie would remove her shoes and dip her feet in the water. The feeling of the earth beneath her feet calmed her, or perhaps it was the company she had.
The simple things in life only came to them when they were in this place; the outside world was too harsh for them, even at the tender age of fifteen and sixteen. Their little world was nice and simple for them, it was the place they had come to rely on. Their time together made them feel complete.
Their time in their little world was the only time they let the other person in on what was going on in their lives. Jackie would talk about how she felt so isolated at home and Robbie told how his close knit Mediterranean family were so suffocating at times.
The little clearing near the River Clyde was their place and their place alone. It would always be somewhere only they knew about, as Robbie had said their first time at the clearing. "This will be somewhere for us and us alone. Somewhere only we know."