[ooc; nexus100; 097]
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters: Elizabeth Weir, John Sheppard, Donna Sheppard-Crane (OC), Jonathan Crane (Batman Begins), John Sheppard (AU), Catherine Weir (OC).
Prompt: Writer's Choice
Word Count: 389
Rating: PG
Summary: She's not laughing.
Author's Notes: I could not find anywhere on the prompt table that this would fit, or that I could shoehorn it into, so here we have my second writer's choice. :V
Elizabeth doesn't blame John, although she's abstractly aware of the fact he probably blames himself. He tends to do that, sometimes, she thinks -- take responsibility. It's something they have in common. Ordinarily, she'd be able to laugh at that -- she'd be amused by how alike they are in some respects, the things they have in common tending to be the things they should both be working on harder.
She's not laughing.
Today, John will speak to Donna and Jonathan about the fact they're going to have to find somewhere else to live indefinitely -- she hesitates to use the word 'permanently' again. She hopes that one day, they'll be really safe -- part of her worries that they'll never reach that, never be able to get past this first mistake, never be able to trust their safety again after this. She pushes that away, thinking of her conversation with her husband. Catherine will live with him, with frequent visits to the rest of the family. She thinks she'll ask him if he'd like to take care of Sedge for her.
For a few moments, she can pretend that that's the most serious consideration in all of this. It doesn't last long.
It was John's idea, she remembers. In the first place. He wanted to make Atlantis more 'family friendly', or...something like that. She remembers being vaguely irritated at first -- she'd never acknowledged why, not then. She chooses not to think about it now. He'd wanted his family close to him, and she'd allowed that -- then he'd pushed for other families. She'd let him have his way again, mostly due to his insistence and convincing arguments, and they'd both taken it to the higher ups.
She remembers when he asked her if she wanted children -- he'd noticed all the time she was spending with Casta, then, and he'd asked. He hadn't let her dodge the question, and then--
She's not going to continue down this train of thought any further. It's not John's fault any of this happened -- it's as much her mistake as his. She had misgivings; she should have listened to them.
It's too late for everything she should have done.
Characters: Elizabeth Weir, John Sheppard, Donna Sheppard-Crane (OC), Jonathan Crane (Batman Begins), John Sheppard (AU), Catherine Weir (OC).
Prompt: Writer's Choice
Word Count: 389
Rating: PG
Summary: She's not laughing.
Author's Notes: I could not find anywhere on the prompt table that this would fit, or that I could shoehorn it into, so here we have my second writer's choice. :V
Elizabeth doesn't blame John, although she's abstractly aware of the fact he probably blames himself. He tends to do that, sometimes, she thinks -- take responsibility. It's something they have in common. Ordinarily, she'd be able to laugh at that -- she'd be amused by how alike they are in some respects, the things they have in common tending to be the things they should both be working on harder.
She's not laughing.
Today, John will speak to Donna and Jonathan about the fact they're going to have to find somewhere else to live indefinitely -- she hesitates to use the word 'permanently' again. She hopes that one day, they'll be really safe -- part of her worries that they'll never reach that, never be able to get past this first mistake, never be able to trust their safety again after this. She pushes that away, thinking of her conversation with her husband. Catherine will live with him, with frequent visits to the rest of the family. She thinks she'll ask him if he'd like to take care of Sedge for her.
For a few moments, she can pretend that that's the most serious consideration in all of this. It doesn't last long.
It was John's idea, she remembers. In the first place. He wanted to make Atlantis more 'family friendly', or...something like that. She remembers being vaguely irritated at first -- she'd never acknowledged why, not then. She chooses not to think about it now. He'd wanted his family close to him, and she'd allowed that -- then he'd pushed for other families. She'd let him have his way again, mostly due to his insistence and convincing arguments, and they'd both taken it to the higher ups.
She remembers when he asked her if she wanted children -- he'd noticed all the time she was spending with Casta, then, and he'd asked. He hadn't let her dodge the question, and then--
She's not going to continue down this train of thought any further. It's not John's fault any of this happened -- it's as much her mistake as his. She had misgivings; she should have listened to them.
It's too late for everything she should have done.