AN: I wrote this when Ingrid in Once Upon a Time (played by Elizabeth Mitchell) died and thought hmmm what about James dealing with Juliet's death? So this is something like a eulogy? Enjoy?
#8
I've been alone most of my life; always running, searching. But for three years I wasn't because I had someone by my side, and that someone was Juliet. The first time I saw her it was like we were standing on opposite sides. I was in a cage, turned around in circles, and although she was on the outside, she was trapped too. In a much bigger cage of a grander scale. I can't tell you when exactly we found each other through the gaps between the bars nor can I tell you the exact moment I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. Partly because I can't tell you her side of the story since it's not my story to tell but also because she will never know the answer to the second part so why should anyone else?
Juliet was special. She had many gifts and they made her special and being special, she used to say, made her feel isolated. Despite that she tried, again and again, loss after loss, because people believed in her and relied on her even when she didn't. But those losses... She never really forgave herself for those. I think she never stopped punishing herself for them, never thought she was enough but goddamnit, she was, she was more than enough and it pains me that she never got to see that. That I never got to show her just how...
She was, is, special to me. But it isn't because of all those things that people isolated her for. It's because of the way she wanted to leave more than anything in the world but when the chance came, she made sure others could leave first. The way she wanted to help people even when she should have helped herself, tried to save a man who was already gone despite circumstances as absurd as flaming arrows. It's the way she wanted to give, in her words, good news to people because she thrived from others' happiness. What made her special was the fact that she gave her life and everything that came with it, for anyone but herself and inspired the people around her to do the same.
Because that's the kind of person she was. When someone asks for two weeks, she gives them three years.
AN: Ĭt's really short and not the best so let me know if you liked/hated it!