Hey there. I've already posted this over on LJ, but I figured I might as well stick it up here, too. This was written for Day 2 of the Season 4 Hiatus Challenge over at the lostsquee community -- the prompts were a picture, and a quote (the quote is below). The fic itself is pretty short.
DISCLAIMER -- Nope, not mine.
The Right Direction
"In the mornings I would wake in different cities, underneath different stars. Only they were the same cities, too, in a way. They were still the same stars."
Scott Bradfield, The History Of Luminous Motion
The train rushes past, clicking and clanking and making his teeth chatter with the force of the vibration. He can barely see it in the dim lighting of the dingy little station – he's seen better, but then again, he's seen worse. He's seen a lot, traveling like he does.
He buries his face in his palms and sighs.
It's always seemed like he can't stay in one place too long – he can't (or won't) let himself settle, in a home, a job, a relationship.
People said he got that from his mom. He'd agreed with them, until the day he didn't anymore. The day he figured out his entire life had been a lie.
He'd left home the next morning.
And since then…since then he'd been here and there and almost everywhere. From crowded subways to planes criss-crossing the skies, he never could manage to sit still. And he still hadn't found what he was looking for…whatever that was. He wasn't sure if it was a place, really, or just a feeling…but it was there, somewhere. He was meant to be there, he just wasn't looking hard enough. At least, that's what he told himself.
But it wanted him back, it really did, he could feel it, pulling and cajoling him back home. Back where he was born, back where he belonged. If he found it…well, maybe then he'd find a place to rest his head. Until then he's got to trudge on, as wary as he is, because it ought to be worth it in the end. It just has to be.
So when his train slows to a stop and the doors creak open, Aaron picks up his bag and slips inside, hoping this time he's headed in the right direction.
END
