shadowsong26: (mariko)
shadowsong26 ([personal profile] shadowsong26) wrote in [community profile] rainbowfic2013-03-31 12:58 am

Dove White #27, Dove Grey #12, Old Lace #11

Name: shadowsong26
Story: Six Years of Love
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Dove White #27. Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without., Dove Grey #12. my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping / but / I shall go on living, Old Lace #11. There is nothing that you can tell me about people's minds that would astonish or surprise me.
Supplies and Materials: bichromatic, tapestry, photography, reimaging (of the fourth part of First Kisses, canvas, acrylic, feathers, modeling clay, seed beads, novelty beads (people love it when a beautiful woman self-destructs / like a tiger in a cage or a bug under glass / people point but don't touch--from "There's Always Another Girl" by Juliana Hatfield), glue ("There are complicated issues tugging at your psyche today. On one hand, the daily routine may be working just fine. But on the other hand, you believe that you must make a stand for what you feel.")
Word Count: 218
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Leyla
Warnings: End of a long relationship
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always.


Mari had her degree and her dream job, and Leyla...the simple fact was, Leyla had never wanted to leave the planet, let alone go as far as the CSP Station, systems and systems away.

On the other hand, there were six years of love behind them, and it cut her to ribbons to think about giving all of that up.

Leyla thought about it. She really did.

But Leyla had dreams of her own, a life she wanted, and...

Six years or not, she knew she would never follow Mari that far away.

She didn't regret the years they'd had together, even if it had to end. Because they had been full of love, and joy, and a part of her would maybe wonder if things might have been different. Maybe they'd fallen out of love a little bit, but Leyla couldn't imagine herself living out there with Mari.

Or maybe she was just trying too hard to justify it. Relationships sometimes didn't work out, and this was...well, if there was any such thing as a good reason for a relationship to fail, this was probably it.

So Leyla drove Mari to the spaceport, and kissed her goodbye, and walked away from six years of love--grieved and disappointed, but not regretting it for a second.
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[personal profile] kay_brooke 2013-03-31 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Painful or not, that is a really mature thing for Leyla to do. Sometimes things don't work out. That doesn't mean they were a mistake to begin with, and it doesn't mean sacrificing one's own happiness to make things work out.