Prompt 16 ~ On the Outside
Title: On the Outside
Author: Always_jbj
Rating: PG
Word Count: 134
Prompt: 16 - Bring out your dead (Doyle)
Characters/Pairing: Wesley pov
I've had a couple of glasses of wine with dinner which seems to have inspired the muse (drunken bum that he is), so if it sucks, I humbly apologise! lol
His absence is almost palpable.
He feels it in every sideways glance that screams ‘you’re not him’. In the deafening silence when he walks into a room. In the look of shared understanding on Angel and Cordelia’s faces when their eyes meet and they drop their guard for just a second; their souls bared to the world.
‘Is it wrong to envy a dead man?’ he wonders, watching as Cordelia’s face softens, then closes off once more as she remembers him for the hundredth time today.
Wesley wonders what that feels like. To be important to someone. To belong somewhere. To be loved as much as this Doyle so obviously was.
He wonders if he will ever know. Wonders if anyone will ever grieve for him.
Author: Always_jbj
Rating: PG
Word Count: 134
Prompt: 16 - Bring out your dead (Doyle)
Characters/Pairing: Wesley pov
I've had a couple of glasses of wine with dinner which seems to have inspired the muse (drunken bum that he is), so if it sucks, I humbly apologise! lol
His absence is almost palpable.
He feels it in every sideways glance that screams ‘you’re not him’. In the deafening silence when he walks into a room. In the look of shared understanding on Angel and Cordelia’s faces when their eyes meet and they drop their guard for just a second; their souls bared to the world.
‘Is it wrong to envy a dead man?’ he wonders, watching as Cordelia’s face softens, then closes off once more as she remembers him for the hundredth time today.
Wesley wonders what that feels like. To be important to someone. To belong somewhere. To be loved as much as this Doyle so obviously was.
He wonders if he will ever know. Wonders if anyone will ever grieve for him.