have you tried salt? (g)openendedSeptember 30 2012, 03:39:13 UTC
[this is probably not at all what you were expecting, but is how my brain is choosing to work tonight].
“I think my house is haunted.”
“Addison, it is,” a brief pause and a rustle of blankets, ”four in the morning.”
“I still think my house is haunted.”
“They would’ve told you if anyone died in your house. Go to sleep.”
“I can’t. My house - ”
“Is haunted. Got it. Let me unpack my Ghostbusters costume and I’ll be right over.”
“Do not mock the haunting.”
“You woke me up at four in the morning to tell me your house is haunted. I’m allowed to mock.”She makes a face at the phone and huffs when he hangs up on her. Something thuds upstairs and she looks up at the ceiling. “Go away
( ... )
As a man, I aint' never been much for talking too I'm as open as the door in her house that leads to her room But when the colour goes out of my eyes, she's usually too But damn Sam, I love a woman that's blue!
Fifteen years, Mark/Addison, Rating: PGgreyslostwhoSeptember 30 2012, 10:20:04 UTC
She doesn't think about her very often these days, Henry's sixteen next Tuesday and Mark's been dead fifteen years... it took a long time, at first she just didn't know how she was going to ever stop thinking about losing him, but she doesn't even think about him that much any more. She's happy, she's married, she's a mother, and she's still as busy as ever... Occasionally before she goes to sleep his face comes into her mind, and she stops for a few moments to think about what might have been. Strangely, what bothers her the most is that Mark doesn't age, he's exactly the same as he was the last time she saw him... hell, he's exactly the same as he was the first time his lips landed on hers in the brownstone in New York when her husband was absent... that hurts more than anything, because it means Mark's suspended in time. It means Mark's not getting older with her, having a few wrinkles round his eyes now the mirror hers, more grey in his hair than brown. She swallows, and grits her teeth when she thinks like that, because it's been
( ... )
Re: Fifteen years, Mark/Addison, Rating: PGthisisagiftSeptember 30 2012, 13:13:31 UTC
This is the saddest thing. It's all so heartbreaking that Addison has to just carry on without him. I loved how she see's Mark the same whilst she ages. Great but really sad!
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“I think my house is haunted.”
“Addison, it is,” a brief pause and a rustle of blankets, ”four in the morning.”
“I still think my house is haunted.”
“They would’ve told you if anyone died in your house. Go to sleep.”
“I can’t. My house - ”
“Is haunted. Got it. Let me unpack my Ghostbusters costume and I’ll be right over.”
“Do not mock the haunting.”
“You woke me up at four in the morning to tell me your house is haunted. I’m allowed to mock.”She makes a face at the phone and huffs when he hangs up on her. Something thuds upstairs and she looks up at the ceiling. “Go away ( ... )
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I'm as open as the door in her house that leads to her room
But when the colour goes out of my eyes, she's usually too
But damn Sam, I love a woman that's blue!
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It would be so easy to say yes
But I never say yes, I just float here like ice
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