Wandering Minds and Hearts
Title: Wandering Minds and Hearts
Word Count: 300
Rating: T (Warning for reference to Sexual Violence--not involving our heroes)
Disclaimer: don't own them.
A/N: Set during Chapter Two (near the end) of Caprican Wife-Swap
Summary: Laura has thinky thoughts while reading Girl With The Pegasus Tattoo (hence the warning).
Bill and Laura were sitting side by side on his sofa reading. Laura was reading The Girl with the Pegasus Tattoo, and Bill was re-reading Dark Day, which was one of his favorite books, so he read it frequently-about once a year. They had been reading for about an hour, relaxing after a long day. Neither of them said anything since they had sat down, but they were comfortable in each other’s presence: It was nice, and it was easy. They didn’t have to work at it; it just was. Laura had never felt that kind of connection with anyone-certainly not her husband. She wished for the thousandth time that she had listened to her mother. She should have been patient instead of marrying the first serious boyfriend she had. But then, she wouldn’t have her girls-she shuddered to think what her life would be like without her beautiful daughters. So, things were better as they were. Bill showed her what a real man was like, and she’d never settle for less again.
These were strange thoughts to be having while reading about a protagonist from Sagittaron, a colony which was evidently slow to adopt protections for women. According to the author, the percentage of sexual assaults throughout the colony was alarmingly high. As perpetually angry with her soon-to-be ex-husband (as far as she was concerned anyway) as she was, she knew that if he became President of the Twelve Colonies, violence against women would end almost entirely. In the meantime, she was reading a passage about Lisbeth tattooing a man’s crimes across his chest and stomach. There was someone who could look after herself! Laura didn’t know whether to be appalled or to cheer for the small girl with the unbreakable spirit.
Word Count: 300
Rating: T (Warning for reference to Sexual Violence--not involving our heroes)
Disclaimer: don't own them.
A/N: Set during Chapter Two (near the end) of Caprican Wife-Swap
Summary: Laura has thinky thoughts while reading Girl With The Pegasus Tattoo (hence the warning).
Bill and Laura were sitting side by side on his sofa reading. Laura was reading The Girl with the Pegasus Tattoo, and Bill was re-reading Dark Day, which was one of his favorite books, so he read it frequently-about once a year. They had been reading for about an hour, relaxing after a long day. Neither of them said anything since they had sat down, but they were comfortable in each other’s presence: It was nice, and it was easy. They didn’t have to work at it; it just was. Laura had never felt that kind of connection with anyone-certainly not her husband. She wished for the thousandth time that she had listened to her mother. She should have been patient instead of marrying the first serious boyfriend she had. But then, she wouldn’t have her girls-she shuddered to think what her life would be like without her beautiful daughters. So, things were better as they were. Bill showed her what a real man was like, and she’d never settle for less again.
These were strange thoughts to be having while reading about a protagonist from Sagittaron, a colony which was evidently slow to adopt protections for women. According to the author, the percentage of sexual assaults throughout the colony was alarmingly high. As perpetually angry with her soon-to-be ex-husband (as far as she was concerned anyway) as she was, she knew that if he became President of the Twelve Colonies, violence against women would end almost entirely. In the meantime, she was reading a passage about Lisbeth tattooing a man’s crimes across his chest and stomach. There was someone who could look after herself! Laura didn’t know whether to be appalled or to cheer for the small girl with the unbreakable spirit.