Title: Life's So Funny, Drabble Challenge for 'Life', Companion piece for "Death Calls Blue"
Author: Eleri McCleod
Email: elerimc (at symbol) lycos . com
Rating: T
Category: angst, S/J
Spoilers: 2010
Archive: Jackfic
Author's note: Double drabble and then some. I know this is late and I blew the heck out the 100 word limit for the first time, but I just couldn't get this one down any more. Companion piece to my first vid of the same name, which can be found at www. hoodatlair. com/ vids/ hosted/ elerivids. htm (remove the spaces) Companion piece to "Death Calls Blue."
As always, all feedback is appreciated.
© Eleri McCleod, January 2004
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He wasn't much of a country fan, even classic country from years ago, but something kept his finger from forwarding on to the next station. Maybe it was the lonely opening arpeggio played on the guitar or maybe it was the first line.
"'Ain't it funny…'"
The words reverberated throughout his body, the singer's ironic tone matching Jack's personal inner voice perfectly. Yes, life was funny, in a "beat your head against the wall" kind of way. After years, she'd appeared, looking just as she had the last time he'd seen her, yanking him from his self-imposed exile, dragging up memories he'd buried deep in order to move on, away from his former existence. She'd appeared not to catch up and tell him she'd missed him, but to tell him he'd been right all those years ago, to rub salt in the wounds that he'd thought had healed.
The words of the song held him immobile as never forgotten, pleading blue eyes filled his vision. He'd never been able to deny her anything in the past. Could he do it now? Was he willing to put himself through the hell of fighting for a past that had betrayed him? For a woman that had betrayed him?
Lost in indecision, the final words echoed his tumbling emotions, irony heavy and pulling an unamused quirk to his lips.
"'Life's so funny…'"
"'Sometimes it makes me sad.'"
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