Unanswered
Rated: PG
Category: Double Drabble, Carson Focus.
Season: Five
Spoilers: Kindred II, The Seed (only timeline stuff/basic events, nothing specific).
Summary: A Late Night Phone Call Goes Unanswered - Or Does It?
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A telephone rang.
A door wrenched open and a woman skidded to answer it just as she came inside her home.
She barked a greeting into the phone in a rough burr as her coat dripped water onto the floor of her pristine house. The woman's wet hand nearly dropped the phone as she spoke, and she sighed in frustration. She had too much to do to worry about phone calls today. A torrential downpour continued outside, unconcerned with telephones or women with too much on their minds.
Half a world away, silence answered her greeting as another hand held a phone with a trembling grip.
After a moment, that hand slammed its phone back into its cradle.
Anger, sadness, and confusion swirled about the man attached to that hand.
He knew that his actions had been not only ill-advised, but against orders.
He really didn't care. The Air Force could say what it wanted to about waiting until the time was right. He didn't have to listen. Now, he wished he had. Hearing her voice had been too much.
Doctor Carson Beckett didn't sleep that night.
And later, on the other side of the planet, neither did his mother.
