Notes: Written for the twislash_100 community on LJ.
Title: started out as a feeling
Couple: Alec/Embry
Prompt: #8: broken
Word Count: 151 words
. started out as a feeling .
The stone was weathered and beaten, but the inscription was still as legible as ever. Or at least, to one it was.
For the past five decades, always on the same day, there were always flowers on that grave.
Always the same kind of flowers too. No one knew who left them – the ones who did never said a thing. It wasn't their place to.
On that night every year, Alec would go and sit by the grave and just stare at it; his mouth mouthing around words that were spoken too softly and quickly for anyone to hear. The only one he wanted to listen was long gone.
The ache in his chest, the one he'd longed to heal for so long, had been filled for a brief time only for it to be ripped away. It left behind a gaping hole in him that could never be fixed.
He didn't want it to.
FIN.