Title: Lonely
Author: Shenandoah Risu
Rating
: PG
Content Flags: canon character deaths
Spoilers: Season 2 "Epilogue"
Characters: Everett Young, Tamara Johansen
Word Count: 206
Prompt: 05- SGU, Everett Young, Lonely Among Us
Author's Notes: Written for the LJ Comm stargateland
Disclaimer: I don't own SGU. I wouldn't know what to do with it. Now, Young... Young I'd know what to do with. ;-)
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Lonely

He's been alone, on his own, the only one left so many times in his life, over the course of his career. Everett Young is self-sufficient, he knows how to deal with being responsible for absolutely everything.

Very rarely has he been lonely.

He knows how to make friends, how to fit into a crowd, how to collaborate, to lead, to be in charge, and yet he has never been lonelier in his life than during his last 30 years on Novus.

For seven years he had it all, despite the hunger and the hardship and the constant toil, but he was with his soulmate, the love of his life, his reason for living.

He's among friends, among people who care about him, and care for him when old age keeps him bedridden, and yet he suffers.

He retreats to a place deep within, where she still smiles at him, her hair golden in the sunlight, her skin smooth and glistening beneath his caressing hands.

He was never able to get the others home.

Now he goes home himself, alone, but no longer lonely, he sees her waiting for him, reaching for him, and he sinks into her warm embrace, and there is peace at last.

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