Title: It's Over Author: Mary Ann Summers Rating: G Spoilers: 3.24 Prompt: 003 Ends A/N: Written for the FanFic100 prompt challenge Summary: Kitty knew her marriage was over for a long time in her head, but a missed helicopter in Mexico brings that knowledge to her heart.
Kitty watches the helicopter rise into the crystal blue Mexican sky, his name on her lips as she screams in desperation, and fear and anger and a thousand other little emotions she can't explain in words but feel so strong they might suffocate her. She yells out his name a final time, and it's lost in the whirl of the helicopter blades and the tree branches whipping in the wind.
The metal bird keeps rising into the sky upward, then finally pulling forward with amazing speed. It's shadow spread over the sand as it headed north. After a minute or two it had disappeared from view. The trees around Kitty had stilled as if the helicopter had never been there. And in a way she wished it hadn't. Maybe there would still be some shred of hope she could save her marriage. But now it seemed all hope was as gone as the helicopter that carried her husband away.
It was over. Whether she wanted it or not, her marriage was over.
Her knees felt weak beneath her and she let them buckle, leaving her kneeling in the dirt. Tears flooded her eyes, but she felt too hollow inside to actually cry. Kitty knew everything she'd done in the past weeks was leading up to this moment, but now that it was here she felt like the world had stopped spinning for just a moment.
Just a moment, however, not eternity. It was hard to be shellshocked over something you knew was going to happen. Something you had helped to happen, in fact. Even before Robert's heart attack she'd been thinking her marriage might have been a mistake, that his political aspirations were much more then she had realized at the time. Though what ambitions were higher for a politican to be president?
Of course that brought up the line she'd been bashing herself over the head with since she found out he was going ahead with his campagain to be govenor even after she had told him that she would prefer him to sit out. What did you expect? He was running for president when they married and that should've been a little tip off that he wanted big things for his career. And what did she expect, that because she had found happiness in motherhood and a writing job that those things would hunger that lust in Robert to hold the highest office in the land?
She'd been a fool. And that's exactly what she felt like as she kneeled in the dirt where the helicopter had stood a few minutes ago. Kitty knew she was an even bigger fool to think that if she'd caught Robert in time, stopped him from flying away into that blue sky that somehow it would've fixed everything.
One scene ripped from a romantic movie wasn't enough to mend a marriage full of holes. And even if Robert hadn't come to Mexico at all there still would've been this moment. Maybe not as dramatic, but it would have come one way or another. She'd known it was over the night she brought Evan home from the hospital and now she had to face the reality that she had been right.
Her marriage was over.