Writer's Circle Fic: Summer Breeze, G, Matthew Gideon, Babylon 5 Crusade
Title: Summer Breeze
Author: alexcat
Fandom: Babylon 5 - Crusade
Type: General
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from the use of these characters.
Characters: Matthew Gideon
Archive: OEAM, Alex’s Story Book, Ao3
Author’s Note: This is for the August 2013 Writer’s Circle prompt: Dog Days of Summer
Spoilers: No
Summary: Matthew wants to go home to Earth.
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Knowing that he couldn’t go home made Matthew Gideon miss Earth twice as much, not that he went home that often anyway but now, well, now no one could go home. And it was up to him and his crew to find a cure or Earth would never be home to anyone again.
He wasn’t sure why they chose him for this mission. Any number of men would have made better commanders and any number of men would have got the job done. He was pretty much a screw up because he couldn’t keep his opinions to himself and he had more than one bad habit that made him a risk.
Maybe they wanted him to fail. But why? Hell, did the why matter? He wasn’t going to fail. Screw them all. With Galen and the Box, he had two aces in the hole.
Maybe.
Oh yeah, he was thinking about Earth. Earth in summer. Sitting outside in the afternoon in his Hawaiian shirt. Iced Tea. Cool breeze. Sometimes he recreated that scene here… and closed his eyes and imagined he was back home on Earth. It was almost the same but not quite and it made him long for home in a way that he never had before.
Would they save Earth? Who knew? He sure hoped so. He wanted to spend just one more summer at home, feeling the real breeze and the real sun on his skin. No one knew how badly he wanted to do that. He’d probably give his life to do it. He probably already had.
~end~
Author: alexcat
Fandom: Babylon 5 - Crusade
Type: General
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from the use of these characters.
Characters: Matthew Gideon
Archive: OEAM, Alex’s Story Book, Ao3
Author’s Note: This is for the August 2013 Writer’s Circle prompt: Dog Days of Summer
Spoilers: No
Summary: Matthew wants to go home to Earth.
~~~
Knowing that he couldn’t go home made Matthew Gideon miss Earth twice as much, not that he went home that often anyway but now, well, now no one could go home. And it was up to him and his crew to find a cure or Earth would never be home to anyone again.
He wasn’t sure why they chose him for this mission. Any number of men would have made better commanders and any number of men would have got the job done. He was pretty much a screw up because he couldn’t keep his opinions to himself and he had more than one bad habit that made him a risk.
Maybe they wanted him to fail. But why? Hell, did the why matter? He wasn’t going to fail. Screw them all. With Galen and the Box, he had two aces in the hole.
Maybe.
Oh yeah, he was thinking about Earth. Earth in summer. Sitting outside in the afternoon in his Hawaiian shirt. Iced Tea. Cool breeze. Sometimes he recreated that scene here… and closed his eyes and imagined he was back home on Earth. It was almost the same but not quite and it made him long for home in a way that he never had before.
Would they save Earth? Who knew? He sure hoped so. He wanted to spend just one more summer at home, feeling the real breeze and the real sun on his skin. No one knew how badly he wanted to do that. He’d probably give his life to do it. He probably already had.
~end~