Title: Gossip

Author: Athena.

Email: atheniandream@aol.com

Content Warnings: Angst. Yada. Pain. Yada.

Pairings: None-ish

Spoilers: HEROES. Major heroes.

Season: Seven

Rating: PG-13

Summary: It's all just gossip right now isn't it?

Author's notes: Had to write it. It's short.

Archive: Anywhere. I'm my own publicist.

Disclaimer: I OWN NOTHING. I know this.

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Gossip

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It's all just gossip right now...isn't it?

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"So, have you met that special someone, Major?"

The highly intruding level of interrogation was finally getting to her, as she pursed her lips,

drawing in all the air around her slowly; and then tightening her face into a warning,

tooth grinding smile, she did so with great animosity.

"Major?" the camera-man flinched at her staring back though the lense, as he watched

the lines in her face, waiting for any expression to burst towards him with a fiery

and unwelcome conviction.

But there was nothing.

Her thoughts were else where, travelling from behind her pink-laced glass blue reflection

into the room behind them both. The room where a man lay unconscious, still pooling in blood

as it spat out of his wounds like running water; a sashay of doctors biting at his heals,

and poking at his bones, forgetting that a human being lay inside the body of their patient.

Impassioned eyes flew back to the un-welcome interrogator and she answered calmly, "No."

"Have you any light to shed concerning rumours of a romantic involvement between you and

Colonel O'Neill, your Commanding officer?" the man pressed once again, on a very unpredictable

button of her heart.

Her jaw tightened, straining as the haze in her eyes cleared for a second,

"It's all just gossip right now. Isn't it?" He faked smile caught the lense for a split second,

causing the reporter to retaliate.

"You tell me Major?"

"If you'll excuse me, I have some work to do."

If venom were a smile…

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Athena

"Sir…um, can I have a look?"

"At what?"

"Let's just say you were…wounded." "Wow, it's a miracle."

"Crunches."