Thursday: Death

[meteorfire]

Good morning, everyone! Today’s Thursday, and it’s meteorfire here with the theme of the day. It’s been wonderful hosting for you guys!

Today’s theme is one of my favorites in fiction, to be honest. I guess that makes me sort of a morbid person. Anyways, the new theme is Death! Anything related to death goes. Funerals, character death, death AS a character,

Comments

[samueljames]

Chuck, Casey/Chuck, Chuck's death almost destroys Casey.

Fill: Ashes to Ashes, PG

[nevcolleil]

War changes a man. John knows it. Knew it before he'd first killed another human being; before he lost his first friend to battle. What he didn't know is that love can change a man just as much... Can change the way he sees things, the way he functions

Re: Fill: Ashes to Ashes, PG

[samueljames]

Thanks for the two fills for this. I can definitely believe him assuming Chuck will be okay and the shock and numbness here is very realistic. Real note of despair towards the end and though it's angsty I like the hint that he might not be able to move on from this.

Fill #2: And Dust to Dust (I couldn't decide which way to go with this)

[nevcolleil]

"He's a burnout," Sarah once said of Casey. She hadn't known John then, or of Alex Coburn; she hadn't heard John laugh, or seen him excited over something only he could get excited over. She hadn't seen him look at someone with love or heard his voice when he said the name of a lover.

Sarah doesn't know John now either. He never laughs... Never smiles. His eyes are hard and cold and he hasn't said Chuck's name once since the funeral.

There's a hole in Sarah's chest, as surely as there is in John's, but Sarah's is the size of two people. When Chuck died, he took a part of John Casey with him. Specifially, he took away John. He took away the laughter and the love and the fire in Casey. Sarah's never seen a stronger man more crushed by loss

Re: Fill #2: And Dust to Dust (I couldn't decide which way to go with this)

[samueljames]

Sorry for the delay in replying. Have been a bad Ljer for the last week or so.

Thanks for this. Heartbreaking look at Casey from Sarah's perspective. I liked the details about having seen him in love and then how hard it is to see him devastated by that loss. Understandably sad fill.