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rainbowfic2013-08-03 12:23 am
bookblather) wrote in rainbowfic2013-08-03 12:23 am
Stars and Stripes 25: Reminders
Author: Kat
Title: Reminders
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Stars and stripes 25 (“I love the earth. If you ask me it's the greatest planet in the world.”)
Supplies and Materials: Glue (Go ahead and speak your piece while remaining true to your heart.), seed beads (Ahava and Duncan), stickers (The Republic of Namibia was the first country in the world to include protection of the environment in its constitution.).
Word Count: 321
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Duncan gets a much-needed reminder.
Warnings: none.
Notes: What friends are for. Dedicated to my BFF. On the off-chance that she's reading this, LOVE YOU, BABE.
"So," Ahava says, and the couch jumps under Duncan as she sits down. "Environmental law."
He winces, shoulders slumped, and strokes the phone in his lap absently. There's a new crack in the plastic. "You heard, huh."
"Half the campus heard," she said, unsympathetic. "Not your dad's dream for his only baby boy?"
He shrugs, and doesn't look at her. "Doesn't matter, does it. I'm doing it anyway and he can scream all he wants."
"Good call," Ahava says, ruffling through his hair. She does that, he's noticed, when she knows he's tense and doesn't know how else to help. "You want to talk about it?"
"No," Duncan says, as repressively as he can handle.
She rolls her eyes. "No, no, I didn't mean the fight, I meant environmental law. Why's it your thing?"
He stared at her, straightening a little "You... Ahava, you were the one who convinced me to go for it. You know all this! Did you, like, forget?"
"No," she said, unruffled. "But you should tell me anyway."
"You know, you're not actually a psychiatrist yet," Duncan told her.
"Humor me," she said, steel in her voice.
So he told her. How the earth, and nature, had meant so much to him as a child—she knew that, she'd been there for all of it, but she listened quietly, as if it was all new. How he saw what was happening to that earth now and it made him sick to his stomach, thinking about the children he might have, what kind of world they would inherit. How someone had to do something.
How he couldn't stand by and hope it was someone else.
He was sitting up again by the end, gesticulating, nearly shouting, and Ahava—Ahava looked smug. Duncan stopped talking, realized he felt considerably better, and scowled.
"You did that on purpose."
She grinned at him, leaned closer, and kissed his forehead. "You're welcome."
Title: Reminders
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Stars and stripes 25 (“I love the earth. If you ask me it's the greatest planet in the world.”)
Supplies and Materials: Glue (Go ahead and speak your piece while remaining true to your heart.), seed beads (Ahava and Duncan), stickers (The Republic of Namibia was the first country in the world to include protection of the environment in its constitution.).
Word Count: 321
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Duncan gets a much-needed reminder.
Warnings: none.
Notes: What friends are for. Dedicated to my BFF. On the off-chance that she's reading this, LOVE YOU, BABE.
"So," Ahava says, and the couch jumps under Duncan as she sits down. "Environmental law."
He winces, shoulders slumped, and strokes the phone in his lap absently. There's a new crack in the plastic. "You heard, huh."
"Half the campus heard," she said, unsympathetic. "Not your dad's dream for his only baby boy?"
He shrugs, and doesn't look at her. "Doesn't matter, does it. I'm doing it anyway and he can scream all he wants."
"Good call," Ahava says, ruffling through his hair. She does that, he's noticed, when she knows he's tense and doesn't know how else to help. "You want to talk about it?"
"No," Duncan says, as repressively as he can handle.
She rolls her eyes. "No, no, I didn't mean the fight, I meant environmental law. Why's it your thing?"
He stared at her, straightening a little "You... Ahava, you were the one who convinced me to go for it. You know all this! Did you, like, forget?"
"No," she said, unruffled. "But you should tell me anyway."
"You know, you're not actually a psychiatrist yet," Duncan told her.
"Humor me," she said, steel in her voice.
So he told her. How the earth, and nature, had meant so much to him as a child—she knew that, she'd been there for all of it, but she listened quietly, as if it was all new. How he saw what was happening to that earth now and it made him sick to his stomach, thinking about the children he might have, what kind of world they would inherit. How someone had to do something.
How he couldn't stand by and hope it was someone else.
He was sitting up again by the end, gesticulating, nearly shouting, and Ahava—Ahava looked smug. Duncan stopped talking, realized he felt considerably better, and scowled.
"You did that on purpose."
She grinned at him, leaned closer, and kissed his forehead. "You're welcome."
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