Title: Spoken
Episode: 3x16 ("Drowing on Dry Land")
Word Count: 266
Rating: K
Note: First off, you reviewers are made of awesome. Seriously, you feed the crazy bunnies, but apparently everyone had differing opinions on what ficlet #10 should be, lol. Okay, so I made the decision according to a couple of factors, and thus I bring you this ficlet. This moment is just genius, and I, for one, could not have given the moment justice, but I tried (and I have another ficlet concerning this moment). Hopefully, you'll enjoy it, or at least you'll flashback on the feeling this moment extracted ;)
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words will never hurt you. Especially words that are meant to comfort and make you feel better, right?
It's somewhat understandable when malicious, and ill-intent words do hurt you, but what about those other words that feel so well-intended? The ones that try to pick you up when you're down, that against your better judgment, you put on a pedestal, along with the person who spoke them.
Dr. Addison Forbes knew better, or at least she should, her conscious told her. But subconscious desires, overwhelming attraction, and need brought her to her knees.
"If you went missing, I'd notice," he spoke the words in a half-whisper, half-dictating sentence. He sounded so confident in his words, that they were instilled into her being immediately. She looked at him with a look of shock, but awe. His eyes smiled, even if his mouth showed no indication of it, and her heart warmed at all the implications of that one line.
Her bones were already brittle, her heart weak, and mind fragile, but it did not stop the adrenaline of optimism that bum rushed her the instant his words became a reason to remain in the fight. The fight to become chief, to teach Mark a thing or two, and to accept Meredith and Derek. Perhaps the words stitched an inch of the sore part of her heart that had been weary of a man's intention.
And maybe, this was what willed her to believe such words, to believe that words so honest and soft-spoken could and would never hurt her.