Title: Nightmare
Author: eyrianone
Rating: K
Disclaimer: From ViaLethe – 'Words are mine – world ain't.'
Summary: Post 47 seconds. What can happen when silence is all there is.
A/N: I have no idea why this is so depressing – because I'm usually all about the happy ending.
"Richard, love isn't something you can just switch off. You cannot work beside her day after day and feel nothing."
His reply is grim, and determined. "Watch me."
"He's different." She tells her doctor.
"Different how?" Her doctor asks.
"Like he's . . . pulling away." She answers.
"Maybe he is." Is her doctor's response.
But he can't be - can he? He wouldn't do that – would he?
Except that he is – he's moving on.
"He's different." She tells her best friend eventually.
"Different how?" The M.E. responds.
"Like he's . . . pulling away." She says – speaking the truth again.
"He's tired of waiting." Her best friend offers bluntly.
And he is, he is, but he would have, oh how he would have – and that isn't why he's doing this.
"You're different." She says to him - finally.
"Different how?" He replies.
"You're not in love with me anymore." She tells him.
"Oh that . . . yeah that's right." He says heavily. Sad, no-fix broken, but relieved, relieved. "I'm not."