fic: the character has been set
Title: the character has been set
Author: dreamingwriter
Rating: G
Warnings: Character death.
Characters: The Middleman, Ida, Wendy
Disclaimer: I don't own The Middleman, haha. I don't even get half of the pop culture references.
Summary: It's like a buisness, and some people, those who ask moments before the blackout, get to wait.
A/N: We're back in the Underworld again. Because I can't help myself. This was written for the mm_ww ficathon using picture prompt 11.
iv.
they're quiet because she's dead and he looks like he's losing, losing, lost some inner battle and he mostly just watches her slip away.
a personality, a soul, can only last as long as it has something to hold onto and he unknowingly fulfilled her last wish by rushing to the rescue.
and finally, when the girl looks at him, wondering "who're you?” he leaves.
x.
sometimes he pretends that they managed to talk before - well, before, and she told him to go on saving the world and he responded with some cheesy, overly romantic trope. and - he thinks that would have broken her.
it never stops hurting, but he's glad she waited.
ii.
"I don't exactly know what happens next."
he doesn't either.
l.
Ida waits for her boss to break, for him to shut down, block out reality until the shock has settled.
(she also intercepts applications for the open job and hides information from O2STK about Wendy, about the accident - because that's just what they'd call it - and her father.)
she gets bored and sells t-shirts with her favorite Wendy Watson colloquialisms; she makes a kindling and donates it to a small liberal arts school. what does an android need with money anyway?
vi.
he doesn't cry, isn't sure it's appropriate or wanted, not in this environment with its clinical air and business-like approach. so he hurries back to earth, to his home, to his solid walls and white ceilings and finds shapes in the plaster.
he thinks she would have liked that.
Author: dreamingwriter
Rating: G
Warnings: Character death.
Characters: The Middleman, Ida, Wendy
Disclaimer: I don't own The Middleman, haha. I don't even get half of the pop culture references.
Summary: It's like a buisness, and some people, those who ask moments before the blackout, get to wait.
A/N: We're back in the Underworld again. Because I can't help myself. This was written for the mm_ww ficathon using picture prompt 11.
iv.
they're quiet because she's dead and he looks like he's losing, losing, lost some inner battle and he mostly just watches her slip away.
a personality, a soul, can only last as long as it has something to hold onto and he unknowingly fulfilled her last wish by rushing to the rescue.
and finally, when the girl looks at him, wondering "who're you?” he leaves.
x.
sometimes he pretends that they managed to talk before - well, before, and she told him to go on saving the world and he responded with some cheesy, overly romantic trope. and - he thinks that would have broken her.
it never stops hurting, but he's glad she waited.
ii.
"I don't exactly know what happens next."
he doesn't either.
l.
Ida waits for her boss to break, for him to shut down, block out reality until the shock has settled.
(she also intercepts applications for the open job and hides information from O2STK about Wendy, about the accident - because that's just what they'd call it - and her father.)
she gets bored and sells t-shirts with her favorite Wendy Watson colloquialisms; she makes a kindling and donates it to a small liberal arts school. what does an android need with money anyway?
vi.
he doesn't cry, isn't sure it's appropriate or wanted, not in this environment with its clinical air and business-like approach. so he hurries back to earth, to his home, to his solid walls and white ceilings and finds shapes in the plaster.
he thinks she would have liked that.