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Jan 23, 2008 20:27

It doesn't look like much.

Beth's pretty used to having the skin scraped off her hands and knees at this point; she's off the bike as much as she's on it, pretty much, and she knows how Teyla feels about that, but it feels pretty fucking incredible, being on the bike, and she isn't about to stop riding it ( Read more... )

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thedescent_into January 23 2008, 22:58:19 UTC

She can hear it. Hear it and without seeing, she knows what it is. She knows, light from the screen flickering off Beth's face. That horrible screeching, clawing, tearing sound and the soft, shuffling gags closer to the microphone. She hears that sound in her sleep, sometimes, and now she's standing in the doorway, frozen. Frozen until she sees Beth double over, shoulders lurching as her stomach empties, and Sarah moves forward without thinking, kneeling at Beth's side and reaching for the camera.

Hands shaking, Sarah presses the power button and the screen flickers to black.

thedescent_into January 24 2008, 22:04:42 UTC

"We're just trying to get by," Sarah says, and that's how she's felt for almost two years now. Getting by. But this was different. This was something deeper. Most days, Sarah was functioning at the very basic level of survival. Nothing more. "She knows that. She doesn't expect anything out of you."

waydowndark January 24 2008, 22:19:31 UTC

"It's not fair," said Beth. "I finally find a woman..." Who I want to be with as much as I ever wanted to be with you. "I finally found her, and I'm just going through the motions, and it's not fair, Sarah. It's not."

thedescent_into January 24 2008, 23:27:52 UTC

"None of this is fair. This isn't about fair," Sarah says, voice choking in her through, catching behind something almost like a bitter laugh. They didn't deserve any of this. None of them did. Maybe not even Juno.

waydowndark January 25 2008, 00:24:35 UTC

Beth twists her fingers through Sarah's long hair, somethin she used to do back in York.

"I'd give it all up," she says, her voice hoarse. "I'd give it all up to wake up back in York, crammed in your bed because I was too pissed to walk home. I'd give it all up to be back there when it's snowing."

thedescent_into January 26 2008, 20:18:31 UTC

Even though she might have wanted to, Sarah just can't say the same. Giving it all up would mean giving up Jessica, and even those five short years with her and all the pain that followed isn't something she can let go of.

"I'm here now, Beth. We're here now. You don't have to give up anything."

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