Lost Fic: we were always falling (Daniel, Eloise)

[ozmissage]

Title: we were always falling
Characters: Daniel, Eloise
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: A course can only be corrected if you try.

A/N: Written for lost_in_108 challenge #38 “trust”.

He’s five and hovering nervously at the top of the slide, cautious even as a child.

She smiles, tight and serious and promises she’ll always catch him.

He’s seventeen and she’s pushing him towards a life he never wanted, but he takes it all the same, drowning himself in probabilities, equations; seeking answers to the unanswerable.

At night she prays to a God she doesn’t believe in.

He’s twenty-nine and he’s dying. It was unexpected, a variable, he thinks as he struggles to breathe.

But it wasn’t.

He looks up and Eloise is holding the gun.

Three decades away, she wishes she had never made him any promises.

Comments

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

Wow, I love the patterns you establish and the pay-off at the end. Very good. :)

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :)

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

She smiles, tight and serious and promises she’ll always catch him.

Oh, Eloise. Breaking heart, here. You know she'll always catch him, because this is not how he dies.

I love when you write these two characters :) Beautiful!

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

I realized it had been a while since I had written Dan and that's just not cool. *snuggles him*

[hondagirll.livejournal.com]

At night she prays to a God she doesn’t believe in.

PERFECT. Wonderful. I especially enjoyed the way all the snipets went together. ♥

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :D

[cloudytea.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I really like this. Awesome job!

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[tellshannon815.livejournal.com]

Love the way these all fit together!

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :)

[valhalla37.livejournal.com]

All of this epically AMAZING drabble just about breaks my heart. Every word and motion is so Dan and so Elose it's just incredible.

And that last line! Wow. seriously a stunner.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you so, so much! This means the world coming from you because you write both of these characters so beautifully. :)

[flaky-artist.livejournal.com]

So lovely and sad, especially this:

She smiles, tight and serious and promises she’ll always catch him.

That is so perfectly Eloise. Nice work!

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :)

[irishunicorn03.livejournal.com]

This makes my hurt heart. In the very very good way, though.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :)

[nicis-anatomy.livejournal.com]

This plotline still gives me headaches ;) It was so tragic and sad ... and so is your drabble. This was really great!

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :)

Heh. Oh, time travel. I'm not sure how it manages to be so confusing and so epic at the same time.