Time is short and I need distractions
Written for the Tarot Cards Drabble Cycle, at femslash100.
Title: Alternative realities
Author: amazon_life
Prompt: Tarot Card - Wheel of Fortune
Fandom: House, M.D.
Pairing: Cameron/Thirteen
Rating: Pg13
Word Count: 231
I feel like I've lived many lives, many different lives in one only lifetime. It seems like now and then I look around and find myself in a totally different reality, many times without having done a single thing to bring it upon myself. Sometimes I think it's too surreal to be true. But life's apparently just that full of surprises.
First I was a kid, a happy kid with loving parents, and that seems so long ago that sometimes I think that one was indeed a dream. Then it was as if I had been sucked into a vortex and expelled back into a totally different reality in which no one cared about me and my mother was no longer loving and was dying, and there was confusion and yells and fights everywhere; that one, I wish had been a dream. Then, with the blink of an eye, she was gone, and it all became silence and absence and I was alone in my own world, just dragging myself on.
College brought parties and drugs and memories that also seem like they were invented. I became a doctor, found out I was sick and it all turned into seriousness and pain and distance and hiding. And suddenly, one day I open my eyes in the morning and see her lying there beside me. Please, let this not be a dream.
Title: Living on a prayer
Author: amazon_life
Prompt: Tarot Card - Strength
Fandom: House, M.D.
Pairing: Cameron/Thirteen
Rating: Pg13
Word Count: 168
I haven't done this in years, and I'm not really sure why I'm doing it now. But as she's sleeping after having been sedated, and there's nothing else I can do and it'll make no difference at all if I'm in the room with her or not, I find myself in the chapel. And I remember that I was once a Christian, and that praying once brought me comfort.
And, since I need all the comfort I can get right now, I dig through my mind until I find what used to be Daniel's favorite prayer, and slowly repeat the words.
'God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference.'
I'm still not sure if there is a God up there, or if I'm just fooling myself. But I know that, with His help or without it, if I can ever do what the prayer says, I'll be one really strong person.
Title: Alternative realities
Author: amazon_life
Prompt: Tarot Card - Wheel of Fortune
Fandom: House, M.D.
Pairing: Cameron/Thirteen
Rating: Pg13
Word Count: 231
I feel like I've lived many lives, many different lives in one only lifetime. It seems like now and then I look around and find myself in a totally different reality, many times without having done a single thing to bring it upon myself. Sometimes I think it's too surreal to be true. But life's apparently just that full of surprises.
First I was a kid, a happy kid with loving parents, and that seems so long ago that sometimes I think that one was indeed a dream. Then it was as if I had been sucked into a vortex and expelled back into a totally different reality in which no one cared about me and my mother was no longer loving and was dying, and there was confusion and yells and fights everywhere; that one, I wish had been a dream. Then, with the blink of an eye, she was gone, and it all became silence and absence and I was alone in my own world, just dragging myself on.
College brought parties and drugs and memories that also seem like they were invented. I became a doctor, found out I was sick and it all turned into seriousness and pain and distance and hiding. And suddenly, one day I open my eyes in the morning and see her lying there beside me. Please, let this not be a dream.
Title: Living on a prayer
Author: amazon_life
Prompt: Tarot Card - Strength
Fandom: House, M.D.
Pairing: Cameron/Thirteen
Rating: Pg13
Word Count: 168
I haven't done this in years, and I'm not really sure why I'm doing it now. But as she's sleeping after having been sedated, and there's nothing else I can do and it'll make no difference at all if I'm in the room with her or not, I find myself in the chapel. And I remember that I was once a Christian, and that praying once brought me comfort.
And, since I need all the comfort I can get right now, I dig through my mind until I find what used to be Daniel's favorite prayer, and slowly repeat the words.
'God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference.'
I'm still not sure if there is a God up there, or if I'm just fooling myself. But I know that, with His help or without it, if I can ever do what the prayer says, I'll be one really strong person.