Title: Of Such Things
Author: garnet filigree
Ratings: G – it's totally tame
Email: cressid@mail.com
Feedback always welcome
Spoilers: Yep – "And Your Heart Will Fly Away"
Disclaimer: No bucks are being made, I don't own these guys, I'm not trying to infringe on anyone's rights, OK? All toys go back in the box when I'm done playing.
Summary: Tyr reflects upon his relationship with Beka - hindsight is 20/20, right? There are consequences for every action. As usual, it's VERY short and first person. Check your disbelief at the door, please.
You will demand of me an answer - how this could come to pass? I will have no reply worth making. There are not words to do it justice. To understand what we have become you must abandon reason.
The merest brushing of flesh, a tantalizing meeting that can never be acknowledged…
The echo of laughter among comrades who have lived to fight another day…
A sorrow shared and thus lightened…
Flickering glances from eyes that do not dare reveal their desires…
A fragile trust given to one who holds many lives in slender hands…
Of such things were we made, she and I.
Once we were companions, friends – perhaps more – and there was no finer certainty for me, no more shining truth than that of Rebecca Valentine.
But Dylan has said that Fate is a hunter, and surely it is so, for we are struck down.
Distance where once there was closeness…
Pale smiles that chase the laughter from Andromeda's halls.…
Caution in place of generosity…
Eyes now cast down or around or through, but never a direct gaze…
A trust blindly, stupidly scarred by a few words…
Of such things we are made, she and I.
No longer companions, no shining light for me now.
Today she leaves us, her kinship with the others wrapped round her like a cloak and dignity a crown upon her head. To my shame I once took it from her with a few careless words, yet somehow she has found it again. I am glad to see that she wears it easily.
Pages never turned…
Songs that will find no voice…
Of such things will we always be, Rebecca and Tyr.