Tegan Chronicles Sanctuary Style 2:

Flights of Fancy 3:

Move On

Tegan was in the sitting room on the staff floor playing around with an acoustic guitar she'd picked up for cheap at a local pawnshop. It really wasn't anything special, but it did have a nice quality tone to it.

Helen stopped in the doorway. "No plans?"

"Why? Do you want to change them?" Tegan clenched her jaw waiting for the answer.

"I don't care what you do in your spare time." Helen walked in and dropped unceremoniously into the overstuffed chair.

"Spare time?" Tegan scoffed lightly. "What's that?"

"I had no right to say what I did last Friday."

"Helen Magnus apologizing?"

"It's been known to happen. But I won't apologize for asking you to do your job. Our work is important."

Tegan nodded, for the last four days the Monkaloid had been following Tegan around like a lost puppy; although he looked more like a sunburned hairless monkey with really bad acne to her.

Tegan started playing the guitar. "I guess that means moonlighting at the Blue Ace is out of the question."

"New guitar?" Helen asked rather than answer her.

"Used, but new to me." Tegan finished tuning it and glanced back up to see Helen watching her behind a veil of weariness that clouded her eyes.

Helen closed her eyes as Tegan started playing random cords.

When she finally settled on a song she started accompanying herself. "Who knows how long I've loved you, you know I love you still."

Helen immediately recognized the less than popular Beatles song and thought Tegan did a better job singing it then Paul, who had written the song for her.

"Will I wait a lonely lifetime? If you want me to, I will."

Helen looked up at Tegan with half lidded eyes to see her look over at her as she started the chorus, which made it different than when Paul had sung it.

"Love you forever and forever; Love you with all my heart. Love you whenever we're together; Love you when we're apart." Tegan pulled her eyes away from Helen fighting the blush that was beginning to creep up her neck.

"For if I ever saw you, I didn't catch your name. But it never really mattered I will always feel the same.

"Love you forever and forever; Love you with all my heart. Love you whenever we're together; Love you when we're apart."

Tegan focused on something far behind Helen as Helen continued to watch her intently. "And when at last I find you, your song will fill the air. Sing it loud so I can hear you. Make it easy to be near you. For the things you do endear you to me. Oh, you know, I will. Oooh, you know, I will. Ooooooh, you knooow, I will."

"They wouldn't want you to." Will spoke from the doorway where he'd been standing unnoticed.

"What?" Tegan turned her head toward him.

"They wouldn't want you to 'wait a lonely lifetime.'" Will made air quotes around the lyrics.

That answered how long he'd been standing there. She wrinkled her brow. "Who?"

"Any of them." He walked in and sat on the couch beside her. It was the first time he'd really felt he could broach the subject on this level with her. "But especially the person you loved the most."

Janet, Tegan thought silently.

"At some point your friends, your family and even your S.O. are going to have to move on and they would want you to do the same."

Helen shifted in the chair and Tegan looked over to see blue eyes regarding her. "He's right."

"It's hard to move on when someone thwarts your every chance at anything resembling a date."

"It goes with the territory." Helen shrugged.

Will smiled at her sadly. "So you got the 'the job comes first' orientation already."

Helen gave him a cross look.

"Is that what it was?" Tegan looked from Helen to him and back.

"Yeah although she waited longer to give it to me."

"Well," Helen spoke, "You weren't trying to date Steve."

"His name is Richard." Tegan sighed. "You don't even know him."

"And you do? He sold you a pair of shoes."

"Boots, and it's not like it matters now."

"You can do better than a shoe salesman." Helen stood up. "Much better."

"I know this guy…" Will saw the look Helen flashed him. "But yeah, maybe not. He was such a dork in med school, and I think he's planning to rule the world one day."

"He's going to have a run for his money." Tegan directed the comment at Helen as she put her guitar back in its case.

A/N:

*I Will Lyrics by the Beatles, Christina Perri's youtube arrangement used as primary inspiration.