Stress Fracture (Harsh Realm, prompt 94) Title: Stress Fracture Fandom:Harsh Realm Characters/Pairing: Sophie Green Rating: G Word Count: 145 Challenge/Prompt: 94 - fix Summary: Everything ends, sooner or later.
Sometimes she thinks she's broken beyond repair, beyond fixing. She feels it inside her, like a an ache, a fracture, a bruise you can't stop pressing just to see if the pain is still there.
You need to move on, people tell her, and she knows they're right, but how is it possible for her to move forward? Tom is out there, somewhere, not dead, and she can't abandon him, she just can't. He would do the same for me, she tells herself, and it's true, but it's precious little comfort.
Tom was strong, stubborn, dogged. Sophie thought she could do anything, anything in the whole world, so long as Tom still loved her but now she's fading fast, becoming thin and transparent, invisible.
Soon, she tells herself, she'll disappear. She'll go to another place, and then it will all be over.