Fic: Shattered
Title: Shattered
Word Count: 341
Word Prompt:#098, Writer’s Choice
Rating: PG
Summary: Craig and Manny during the end scene of “Accidents will Happen 2”. Because I love this episode. It’s so powerful.
Author’s Notes:
“There she is.”
I felt my heart swell, staring at Manny. So innocent and cute still, even though she wasn’t really so innocent. Manny looked uncomfortable as I neared her. I wanted to kiss her.
She was giving me a family. Finally a family of my own. Something that was mine.
“Don’t.” She pushed me back. I stared at her.
“What’s the matter?” I asked, and there’s this hammering in my chest.
Manny gives me big soulful eyes. “I can’t do this…I thought I could…but I can’t.”
I felt my eyes knit together. I didn’t understand. “You’re not making any sense.”
There’s a pause. This long, awkward pause. I’m holding my breath because things start to feel fuzzy around me. I let it out, just as Manny speaks.
"Someday, you'll make a great dad. And hopefully someday, I'll be a mom, but now.. now isn’t someday yet."
I just stare. She’s shattering my dreams. I feel anger, and it’s not a good thing. I lunged for Manny. “No! No, no you’re not. I won’t let you!” I exclaimed.
Emma came in next, spouting off at the mouth. Like she always did. I told her to butt out, that this wasn’t her business. She told me it was Manny’s body.
“But it’s my baby!”
I wanted that baby. I wanted to be a father to it. Not that I knew how to be a father but it was something that I figured I could be. I could do it. Lots of single dads did. True those single dads weren’t sixteen years old like I was…but I could still do it.
Manny gazed at me with pleading eyes. I felt something like hatred and had to turn away. I stumbled out of the school. My throat was tight. I couldn’t breathe. There was nothing left for me to do here. Nothing…not a damn single thing.
She was going to abort. I knew this, I felt it in my bones.
And one by one, my dreams of being a daddy were shattered, like dust.
Word Count: 341
Word Prompt:#098, Writer’s Choice
Rating: PG
Summary: Craig and Manny during the end scene of “Accidents will Happen 2”. Because I love this episode. It’s so powerful.
Author’s Notes:
“There she is.”
I felt my heart swell, staring at Manny. So innocent and cute still, even though she wasn’t really so innocent. Manny looked uncomfortable as I neared her. I wanted to kiss her.
She was giving me a family. Finally a family of my own. Something that was mine.
“Don’t.” She pushed me back. I stared at her.
“What’s the matter?” I asked, and there’s this hammering in my chest.
Manny gives me big soulful eyes. “I can’t do this…I thought I could…but I can’t.”
I felt my eyes knit together. I didn’t understand. “You’re not making any sense.”
There’s a pause. This long, awkward pause. I’m holding my breath because things start to feel fuzzy around me. I let it out, just as Manny speaks.
"Someday, you'll make a great dad. And hopefully someday, I'll be a mom, but now.. now isn’t someday yet."
I just stare. She’s shattering my dreams. I feel anger, and it’s not a good thing. I lunged for Manny. “No! No, no you’re not. I won’t let you!” I exclaimed.
Emma came in next, spouting off at the mouth. Like she always did. I told her to butt out, that this wasn’t her business. She told me it was Manny’s body.
“But it’s my baby!”
I wanted that baby. I wanted to be a father to it. Not that I knew how to be a father but it was something that I figured I could be. I could do it. Lots of single dads did. True those single dads weren’t sixteen years old like I was…but I could still do it.
Manny gazed at me with pleading eyes. I felt something like hatred and had to turn away. I stumbled out of the school. My throat was tight. I couldn’t breathe. There was nothing left for me to do here. Nothing…not a damn single thing.
She was going to abort. I knew this, I felt it in my bones.
And one by one, my dreams of being a daddy were shattered, like dust.