So... I know what you're all thinking... no Dominion fic yet. But, you get Top Gun fic!
(Also, I have an AO3 account now, under the same name!)
Carmen Kazansky pulled a weed out of the dirt and tossed it into her every growing pile. The midday sun beat down on her, causing a bead of sweat to drip down the back of her neck.
She stopped to take a swig out of her water bottle, frowning as she found it mostly empty. She set it back on top of her short garden fence, and returned to pulling weeds.
"Carmen!"
She looked up. Her fiancé, Patrick, was standing in their back doorway.
"Your mother is calling, she says it's important."
Carmen stood, "I'll be in in a sec!" She tugged off her gardening gloves and dropped them next to her pile of weeds. With her father's failing health and her younger brother's recent enrollment in the Navy, her mother could have any number of things to tell her.
She crossed the small backyard, and stepped through the back door into the kitchen.
Patrick passed Carmen her cell phone. Carmen put it on speaker.
"Hi Mom. What's going on?"
"I have some bad news." Her mother paused, making sure she was listening.
Carmen swallowed, "Fire away."
"Your father's cancer is back. The doctors don't think he has very long. He'd, he'd like you to move back to San Diego. So he can spend these last few months with all of us."
Carmen looked to Patrick, who just nodded. God, what would she do without him?
"I'll be there as soon as I can get a plane ticket."
I am begging for reviews if you liked it.