Fanfic: After Juliet: Swing.
Title: Swing.
Fandom: After Juliet
Characters: Rosaline, Livia
Rating: G
Word Count: ~300
Summary: “Maybe he’s here to bring us peace.”
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my imagination. After Juliet was a play written by Sharman MacDonald using mainly characters from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Swing.
“Benvolio means peacemaker, you know.”
Swing.
“I know, Livia.”
Swing.
“Maybe he’s here to bring us peace.”
Swing.
“I don’t want peace, Livvy.”
She stands up. She isn’t angry - you never see Livia angry. You feel a little angry, though. The iron hasn’t been stripped from your soul yet.
“How can you know that? You’ve never known peace.”
She climbs to the top of the frame. You continue to swing.
“I liked things how they were. I don’t want things to change. I just wish things were how they used to be. Before.”
There is silence for a few seconds. Of course Livia knows what you mean. She’s lived the feud, too. She’s just too naïve to realise how she’s idealising the humdrum life that faces you.
“Romeo never really loved you, anyway.”
It’s a horrible thing to say and she knows it. She’s out of reach or you’d slap her. As it is, you glare.
“He forgot you, he loved Juliet the moment he saw her. The poetry he wrote her was better than that he wrote for you.”
A heavy silence reigns for a few seconds. She opens her mouth to say something more, thinks and closes it again. You swing a little harder, a little faster. The sound of Rhona’s music fills the air. Perhaps it calms you a little.
“Benvolio is a fool.”
“So was Romeo.”
You ignore that.
“I’m not one to suffer fools gladly, Livia. You know that. Benvolio may claim love, but his feeling goes no deeper than his trousers. He barely knows me.”
“He knows you as well as Romeo did. And as well as you knew Romeo, and that’s Benvolio’s crime, isn’t it?”
“What is?”
“You scorned Romeo utterly because you loved him. You scorn Benvolio utterly because he isn’t Romeo.”
Fandom: After Juliet
Characters: Rosaline, Livia
Rating: G
Word Count: ~300
Summary: “Maybe he’s here to bring us peace.”
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my imagination. After Juliet was a play written by Sharman MacDonald using mainly characters from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Swing.
“Benvolio means peacemaker, you know.”
Swing.
“I know, Livia.”
Swing.
“Maybe he’s here to bring us peace.”
Swing.
“I don’t want peace, Livvy.”
She stands up. She isn’t angry - you never see Livia angry. You feel a little angry, though. The iron hasn’t been stripped from your soul yet.
“How can you know that? You’ve never known peace.”
She climbs to the top of the frame. You continue to swing.
“I liked things how they were. I don’t want things to change. I just wish things were how they used to be. Before.”
There is silence for a few seconds. Of course Livia knows what you mean. She’s lived the feud, too. She’s just too naïve to realise how she’s idealising the humdrum life that faces you.
“Romeo never really loved you, anyway.”
It’s a horrible thing to say and she knows it. She’s out of reach or you’d slap her. As it is, you glare.
“He forgot you, he loved Juliet the moment he saw her. The poetry he wrote her was better than that he wrote for you.”
A heavy silence reigns for a few seconds. She opens her mouth to say something more, thinks and closes it again. You swing a little harder, a little faster. The sound of Rhona’s music fills the air. Perhaps it calms you a little.
“Benvolio is a fool.”
“So was Romeo.”
You ignore that.
“I’m not one to suffer fools gladly, Livia. You know that. Benvolio may claim love, but his feeling goes no deeper than his trousers. He barely knows me.”
“He knows you as well as Romeo did. And as well as you knew Romeo, and that’s Benvolio’s crime, isn’t it?”
“What is?”
“You scorned Romeo utterly because you loved him. You scorn Benvolio utterly because he isn’t Romeo.”