100 Challenges
03 – Ends
By: Lily Handle
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Author's Note: This number was suggested by Tamazi. If you have a number you'd like me to do, review or email me with you choice. I'll get right on it, though that doesn't mean it will be posted quickly, lol.
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So, this is how it ends, huh? Lance thought to himself. He was sitting on the hood of his Jeep, parked on some hill or another that had a perfect view of the Institute. He could see little multicolored dots running around the massive yard. Life was normal in perfect land, he thought bitterly. He was nursing a major case of a broken heart. It was finally over between him and Kitty. She'd made it perfectly clear as long as he was one of the Brotherhood, there was nothing between them. Hadn't he tried to be one of the good guys for her? It hadn't worked. No one had been willing to give him a second chance. And now, it was his fault he was a bad guy. He couldn't change who he was, and damn it if she couldn't accept that, it was fine with him that it was over. He jumped down from the hood and started pacing. Their relationship had always been just on the edge of bad it and not good enough. Maybe he wasn't good enough. No, this wasn't his fault. She didn't have to be such a goody-goody all the time. She didn't have to be so damn perfect that he had fallen…no, that was just too painful to think about. He'd forgotten caring meant people could hurt you.
"Well no more," He growled to himself, then turned to face the Institute, "No more you hear me! It's over and I don't give a damn! You hear me Kitty!" He dropped to his knees and slammed his fist against the ground. It came alive around him, shifting, rolling and pitching. He poured his anger, bitterness and tears into the ground and didn't stop until he collapsed from exhaustion. "No more. This is how it ends. Forever."
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Author's Note: Yay! Lance angst! Isn't it just great? I absolutely adored this couple in Evolution. I thought they were great and was so happy when they got back together in Ascension. I just had to do an angst-y piece for them and this was the perfect prompt. So, if you'd like to tell me which number to pick, please review or email me!