[ooc; nexus100; 086]
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Elizabeth Weir, Cameron Mitchell, and Simon Wallace.
Prompt: Choices
Word Count: 333
Rating: PG
Summary: In the end, it wasn't all about Cameron.
Author's Notes: In the cracky AUverse of fandomninjas (*pimps the OOC comm*), Cameron and Elizabeth Had A Thing a while back. It ended in...'99, I believe. :3
P.S a kind thank you to Jeri, because I totally kifed the style of writing for this from her excellent narrative for baby Liz Sherman. So THANK YOU, I really like that and I will probably use it again because it is basically awesome.
In the end, it was her choice. She understood things then, or thought she did, and she made her decision based on the conclusions that she'd reluctantly come to. It was her decision and she stood by it, though it pained her to do so. She never gave the slightest hint, in the days and weeks and months and years that would follow, that she regretted the choice she had made.
In the end, it was about self defense. She left him before he could be taken from her -- by life, by death, or by his own doing. She chose to remember the good things about their relationship and take those memories, before they could be tainted by a bitter ending. She knew him too well (or not well enough?) and she knew herself, and she knew that what they had wouldn't--wouldn't stand up to the lives they were leading.
In the end, it was inevitable. Good things come to an end, one way or another, and however much she loved him, however much he loved her, it wasn't going to be enough. She wasn't going to be enough. It was better this way, that they part on good terms, after a frank and honest discussion of where they were going.
In the end, it wasn't all about Cameron. Simon was a good man, a kind man, a man she could spend her life with. A man she wanted to spend her life with, once she was free of this, once she'd come to love him in the way she knew that she could. He was the second man she'd wanted that with, but the first to ask her. He was a new opportunity and she loved him, loved him so much she could forget that she'd ever stopped in the window of a jeweller's on her way to see Cameron and wondered.
In the end...she still doesn't understand why.
Characters: Elizabeth Weir, Cameron Mitchell, and Simon Wallace.
Prompt: Choices
Word Count: 333
Rating: PG
Summary: In the end, it wasn't all about Cameron.
Author's Notes: In the cracky AUverse of fandomninjas (*pimps the OOC comm*), Cameron and Elizabeth Had A Thing a while back. It ended in...'99, I believe. :3
P.S a kind thank you to Jeri, because I totally kifed the style of writing for this from her excellent narrative for baby Liz Sherman. So THANK YOU, I really like that and I will probably use it again because it is basically awesome.
In the end, it was her choice. She understood things then, or thought she did, and she made her decision based on the conclusions that she'd reluctantly come to. It was her decision and she stood by it, though it pained her to do so. She never gave the slightest hint, in the days and weeks and months and years that would follow, that she regretted the choice she had made.
In the end, it was about self defense. She left him before he could be taken from her -- by life, by death, or by his own doing. She chose to remember the good things about their relationship and take those memories, before they could be tainted by a bitter ending. She knew him too well (or not well enough?) and she knew herself, and she knew that what they had wouldn't--wouldn't stand up to the lives they were leading.
In the end, it was inevitable. Good things come to an end, one way or another, and however much she loved him, however much he loved her, it wasn't going to be enough. She wasn't going to be enough. It was better this way, that they part on good terms, after a frank and honest discussion of where they were going.
In the end, it wasn't all about Cameron. Simon was a good man, a kind man, a man she could spend her life with. A man she wanted to spend her life with, once she was free of this, once she'd come to love him in the way she knew that she could. He was the second man she'd wanted that with, but the first to ask her. He was a new opportunity and she loved him, loved him so much she could forget that she'd ever stopped in the window of a jeweller's on her way to see Cameron and wondered.
In the end...she still doesn't understand why.