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As many of you probably already know, last night another canon lesbian was shot and killed minutes after a love scene with the woman of her affection. Understandably, many fans (and non-fans) of The 100 are hurt and betrayed by yet another tv lesbian being killed on-screen
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Root thought she would continue to rage and cry and scream like she did in the moment, when the whole world turned upside down and went to hell, but somehow now, as they searched for the tiniest shred of hope that Shaw wasn't gone, she just couldn't. She was numb all over, her feelings muffled until she could barely remember what she was supposed to feel.
But she did remember.
They'd barely had any time together. Well, any time together. Just one kiss, barely a blip in the rush for survival, and that was all. In her head, they'd had eternities and somehow she'd let herself believe that at least a little of that time could be true someday. There had been a certain excitement in that naive expectation, in the work she had to do to even get the hint of a smile or a laugh from Shaw. She’d thought they had time, and she'd never hated being so wrong about something.
All of them continued looking, continued hoping, but Root could feel it weighing on her more with every passing day. The cotton in her head wouldn't seem to dissipate and she began to hope that it never would, if only so she wouldn’t fall apart entirely. Anything, even this, was better than the tearing pain she'd felt when she saw Shaw fall. Before the numbness set in, she hadn’t been quite sure she would survive that pain, or if she even wanted to survive without Shaw there to piece her back together.
Perhaps, she thought with a broken kind of wistfulness she would have laughed at just a year ago, it would be kinder if she couldn't remember.
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THIS IS ABOSULTELY LOVELY!
I love your Root voice and her desperation and her separation from the situation at the same time. How she and Sameem had lifetimes in her heads and how I want to see all those scenarios and what their life was like in Root's head. (and how different it would be in real life.) and the end. the lovely sad beautiful ending line.
Thank you so much for writing this!
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