Title: Young – Epsilon Sentence Ficlet
Author: Monti
Date: July 15, 2007
Rating: PG
Pairing: Lee/Kara
Word Count: 310
Category: Romance
Warnings: None
Spoilers: Season 1 and 2?
Author's Note: Just wanted to try some thing a little different so I pulled out the sentence sets.
Additional Note: Lee's point of view.
Summary: Set way in the future after the fleet finds Earth.
03 – Young
Gods, they were so young then…Lee grinned as he slid the picture back in its holder; he liked remembering them as they were long ago.
YOUNG
On the eve of their silver anniversary Lee went looking for a special photo. He finally found it…tucked away in the back of the attic…wrapped up in velvet cloth. It had long ago been replaced by images of kids, pets and visits to places far away.
Slipping the fabric away from the frame, Lee ran his hand over the protective glass surface. The picture inside was wrinkled and creased with tattered edges and probably very fragile. But he couldn't resist taking it out to have a closer look.
He hadn't seen his brother's likeness in years and holding it now brought back so many memories…both good and bad. On the one hand, he'd always mourn the lost possibilities for his brother. And on the other…well…he'd have never met Kara if not for Zak.
He wouldn't have over twenty-five years with the woman who defined perpetual motion. Kara still hit the ground running, living for each new experience and never looked back. She made his life exciting and different every day. The only constant was that she came home to him. To the life they made.
He wouldn't have it any other way.
He glanced down at the photo again. Gods, they were so young then…Lee grinned as he slid the picture back in its holder; he liked remembering them as they were long ago. And he had a feeling Kara would, too.
After all, it was taken on the day they'd met and it deserved a place of honor at their anniversary party. The one he wasn't supposed to know about.
Smiling again, he made his way back down the stairs and over to Zak's room. He left the velvet-wrapped picture on the desk, not bothering with a note.
His oldest would know what to do with it.
He had a wife to track down for a celebration.
FIN